Quote:
Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@chaley: Yeah it does sound a lot like the wireless device  The only question is to what extent do we allow two way data flow. Metadata updates from device->calibre? How does one handle conflicts -- all the usual distributed data reconciliation headaches... |
The wireless device is in the end a calibre device. It doesn't do much more than the standard device interface, which as you know is mostly one way: calibre to the device. The plumbing is there to update local metadata using information from the device; it is currently used to sync a bool "read" column and a "date" date-read column. I haven't extended it any further for exactly the reason you suggest: conflicts. IMO that problem is close to irreconcilable without human intervention in the conflict reconciliation process, especially for is_multiple columns.