[SyncEvolution] Syncing with KeepContacts (onetime MobiCal/Everdroid service)

[Max Pyziur]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022, Patrick Ohly wrote:

> Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> writes:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I've been going back and forth with KeepContacts support in order to get
>> SyncEvolution working with their service.
>>
>> We've gotten to the point that a connection can be established,
>
> What fixed it?

I don't recall what was fixed regarding the establishment of a connection.

The next thing that was fixed was a recurring libsoup error.

>> but now there are other issues that result in a 403 error.
>>
>> Specifically, in contacting KeepContacts on this round, the reply is:
>> "I got word from the developer that your client is trying to do a "SyncML
>> Alert Code Resume Session (225)" which our server does not support. Can
>> you see if you can trigger a "Slow Sync, SyncML Alert Code Slow Sync
>> (201)" instead?"
>>
>> I've briefly searched syncevolution's documentation. But if there is
>> someone who can adivse here more quickly, that would be very helpful.
>
> You don't have any valuable data in the server, right?
>
> Then you can start from scratch with "--sync refresh-from-local", which
> will start a new sync session, delete whatever data it finds on the
> server, and then send the local data.
>
> "Resume Session" is used when previous sessions were not terminated
> properly.

Running the following command
syncevolution --run  --sync refresh-from-local keepcontacts

this is the output that was echoed to the screen

[INFO] calendar: inactive
[INFO] memo: inactive
[INFO] todo: inactive
[INFO] addressbook: starting first time sync from client (peer is server)
[INFO] creating complete data backup of datastore addressbook before sync 
(enabled with dumpData and needed for printChanges)
Local data changes to be applied during synchronization:
*** addressbook ***
Comparison was impossible.

[INFO] addressbook: sent 6/1431
[INFO] addressbook: sent 7/1431
[INFO] addressbook: sent 10/1431
[INFO] addressbook: first time sync done unsuccessfully
[ERROR] addressbook: remote, status 400
[INFO] creating complete data backup after sync (enabled with dumpData and 
needed for printChanges)

Synchronization failed, see 
/home/pyz/.cache/syncevolution/keepcontacts-2022-01-19-17-03/syncevolution-log.html 
for details.

Changes applied during synchronization:
+---------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-CON-+
|               |         LOCAL         |        REMOTE         | FLI |
|        Source | NEW | MOD | DEL | ERR | NEW | MOD | DEL | ERR | CTS |
+---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|   addressbook |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |
|   refresh-from-local, 0 KB sent by client, 0 KB received            |
|   item(s) in database backup: 1431 before sync, 1431 after it       |
|   remote, status 400                                                |
+---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|          start Wed Jan 19 17:03:15 2022, duration 0:11min           |
|                         remote, status 400                          |
+---------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
First ERROR encountered: remote, status 400

Data modified locally during synchronization:
*** addressbook ***
no changes


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these seem to be the relevant lines from the logfile:

–
[2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] 'processStatus' - Processing incoming Status 
[--][++] [->end] [->enclosing]

     [2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] Started processing Command 'Status' 
(incoming MsgID=4, CmdID=5)
     [2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] WARNING: RECEIVED NON-OK STATUS 400 for 
command 'Add' (outgoing MsgID=4, CmdID=5)
     [2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] - SourceRef (localID) = 
'pas-id-0bb48ef3ca252ea80c8d07fd720d9818b357a2e6'
     [2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] Found matching command 'Add' for Status
     [2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] Status: 400: originator exception
     –
     [2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] 'SessionAbort' - Aborting Session, 
Status=400, ProblemSource=REMOTE [--][++] [->end] [->enclosing]
         [2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] WARNING: Aborting Session with Reason 
Status 400 (REMOTE problem) ***
         [2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] --------------- Ignoring all commands in 
this message (after 0 sec. request processing, 7 sec. total) with Status 
514 (0=none) from here on
         –
         [2022-01-19 17:03:24.293] 'DSAbort' - Aborting datastore sync, 
abortStatusCode=400, localProblem=no, resumable=yes [--][++] [->end] 
[->enclosing]
             –
             [2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] 'SaveSuspendState' - Saving state 
for suspend/resume, datastore=addressbook [--][++] [->end] [->enclosing]
                 +
                 [2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] 'SaveResumeMarks' - let 
implementation save resume info, datastore=addressbook [--][++] [->end] 
[->enclosing]
             –[2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] End of 'SaveSuspendState' [->top] 
[->enclosing]
             [2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] *************** Warning: Datastore 
flagged aborted (after 0 sec. request processing, 7 sec. total) with 
REMOTE Status 400
         –[2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] End of 'DSAbort' [->top] [->enclosing]
     –[2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] End of 'SessionAbort' [->top] [->enclosing]
     [2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] Deleted command 'Add' (outgoing MsgID=4, 
CmdID=5)
     [2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] Deleted command 'Status' (incoming MsgID=4, 
CmdID=5)

–[2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] End of 'processStatus' [->top] [->enclosing]
[2022-01-19 17:03:24.294] addressbook: first time sync done unsuccessfully
[2022-01-19 17:03:24.295] remote, status 400
[2022-01-19 17:03:24.295] closing session


Thank you for help,

Max