[xwiki-devs] Questions, Gsoc2016, XWiki Android-authenticator

Hello Dear devs, I am Fitz Lee, a CS Master's student from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. I'm very interested in this project, XWiki authenticator Android. I have submitted the final application for Gsoc2016 (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByNx4jI3PEaNaGRxMkt0cUU3SjA/view?usp=shari… ). In order to furtherly understand the authenticator project, I have developed this android demo (https://github.com/fitzlee/SampleSyncAdapter), which is based on SampleSyncAdapter Google Android Sample. By deeply Analyzing the SampleSyncAdapter source, I have implemented the material design(>=4.4) ui, the synchronization of contacts and the access of other apps . But some functions in google server(https://samplesyncadapter2.appspot.com/sync) can't work well so that the client-to-server Synchronization function can't be tested and verified, and it needs to cooperate with server. In my github repository(https://github.com/fitzlee/SampleSyncAdapter), I also show my analysis about the authenticator, synchronization, contactmanager, sign-in, sign-up and the whole process of the app. And now I am trying to develop the XWiki android authenticator project. Please consider my application, and I am eager to join this project and make a contribution. It's my first time to join the open source organization for enhancing my teamwork and technical skills. Please give me a chance, and I will try my best. If there is anything I can do for this project , I will be very happy. Here, i also have some questions which confuse me during my development: 1. contact synchronization (1)Situation: Now I have implemented the server-to-app synchronization with the modified SampleSyncAdapter (https://github.com/fitzlee/SampleSyncAdapter), and this demo can download contacts from server to local sqlite3 database. Also I can edit and modify the local contact and from logcat I have seen the dirty contacts being sent to the server. But the synchronization of server can't work so that I can't test this function. (2)Problem: Moreover, by analyzing the XWiki android authenticator in the repository (https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/android-authenticator). I have seen that some function has not been implemented, like getDirtyContacts and getRawContact in ContactManager. And the process of synchronisation in SynAdapter_onPerformSync also confuse me, like "ensureXWikiGroupExists>> XWikiConnector.getUsers>> ContactManager.updateContacts>> ContactManager.updateStatusMessages". I think it should be this process, like "ContactManager.getDirtyContacts>> NetworkUtilities.syncContacts>> ContactManager.updateContacts". Therefore, I don't know whether there is something wrong with me. Could you give me some advice? 2. A test xwiki server and test user which may help me a lot to develop this project for testing. I have analysed the sampleSynAdapter and implemented some function, for example material design(>=4.4), version support(2.3 with v7 library) and the synchronisation from server to the android local sqlite3 database(contacts2.db) using ContactManager.But when client sends some dirty contact data to server, the synchronisation of server in google appengine can't work well so that I can't test my app's synchronisation. And the SampleSyncAdapter server also can't provide me more apis,like signing up and other necessary function.I have tried to upload a python server to google appengine,but failed because of the incompatibility between the source code by python version 2.5 and the cloud platform by 2.7 version. Question: Please if possible, could i have a test user and some server apis in xwiki server, or maybe i should write a test server by myself? 3. requirement I think this project mainly has the following requirements. (1) sign in it is easy,just like my analysis of android SampleSyncAdapter, including the server connection with XWikiconnector and the account added by AccountManager (2) sign up may also need some other api, like getting a list of xwiki user, adding friends which can be synchronized in the local phone contacts. Also other activitie may be possibly added, therefor the authenticator app will be very complex. (3) synchronization of contacts (4) edit the contact (5) access by other apps Question: Are there more other requirements in this app, like adding friends(general person) and creating new xwiki account(administrator)? maybe it will cause more demands and be more complex. 4. support version and ui (1) ui design * material design >=4.4 with the support library support-v7 (2) support version * The ui design can support the lowest 2.3 version and the android sampleSynAdapter can also support 2.3 version. So I think our authenticator app can support the lowest 2.3 version if needed. Question: Maybe there are somethings I have not noticed, so this conclusion is wrong, please give me some advice? Is that OK? 5. account permission In AccountGeneral.java there are two permissions , like AUTHTOKEN_TYPE_READ_ONLY, AUTHTOKEN_TYPE_FULL_ACCESS. Could you tell me what the permissions main? other xwiki instance access limits ? Account manager? And where should I use them? I am looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you very much. Best Regards Fitz Lee | UCAS Master Email&Skype: fitz.lee(a)outlook.com Github&Homepage: https://github.com/fitzlee University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(UCAS) Shijingshan District, Beijing, China -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Questions-Gsoc2016-XWiki-Android-authenti… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.