Zimbra + Funambol Sync4j Code

[KariM]

Originally Posted by peng1can

Does the funambol sync seem to be reliable and offer at least the same functionality level, or is it just a lot of duplicated effort compared to the zimbra mobile sync? Once it's installed, is the funambol setup stable?

I forgot to emphasize one major difference:

Funambol relies, where possible, on the mobile device's native sync client.
That client understandably is very stable and really doesn't really consume memory (compared to Java stuff).

Usability is also very different (Java vs. native).

[mikebarnet]

Hi!
I'm using zimbra connector for funambol. I installed it and i tested it with java demo client which is included with funambol. (i'm using funambol on mysql)
Just a question: there is a java demo client (demob.sh) and also a webclient (http://myhome:8080/funambol/webdemo), so, what's the difference?
when i open the web client i can add new contacts and calendar's events and i can see that it stores these data in my mysql database but it does nothing else. What i store with web demo remains in the mysql database and it is never stored also in zimbra.
What i want to say is that when i use java web demo first I insert new contacts and calendars and then when i do the synchronization i can see them in zimbra.
But i never see in zimbra what i add with webdemo.

But, what should do web demo? it only store entries in mysql database? it has non-sense.
When i click on synchro by using java demo, doesn't it have to store the mysql entries in my zimbra?
or is the contrary? zimbra have to store datas in webdemo?
why i can see only entries added with webdemo in my mysql database and not also what i have in my zimbra after doing the synchro?


thanks to all

[lembal]

Hello World

Here is my configuration :

1) Debian Etch - ZCS OSS 5.0.5 (Mixed mode HTTP/HTTPS) - Funambol DS Server 6.5.14 - User : mickael / Pass : password - Domain Name : domain.ltd - IP Address : 192.168.253.3 - TCP Ports used : HTTP/80 & HTTPS/443

2) Configuration via Funambol Administration Tool (WinXP)
Address given as Zimbra URL : https://192.168.253.3/service/soap/

3) Clients tested : iPhone+Funambol-Client (last version) / Outlook2007(WinXP)+Funambol-Client (last version)

4) Everithing's working great ! Hmmmm for the Zimbra part only... Errors are the same from both clients tested. Here are the logs :

11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Starting the Sync process...
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Set a lower priority to the process
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Set listeners
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Creating SyncSources...
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Creating the sync-mutex ("fol-SyncInProgress-1210845448")
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Start SyncClient::Sync() with 1 sources
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [INFO] -
************************** BEGIN of Synchronization session **************************
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [INFO] - Synchronization URL: http://192.168.253.3:8080/funambol/ds
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [INFO] - Preparing synchronization of contact...
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Checking devinfo...
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - devinfo hash: CPpVwdjSsug0ZNTBOD9qpA==
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - devinfo unchanged, no need to send
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Initialization message:
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

(...)

11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - User Agent = Funambol Outlook Plug-in v. 6.5.8
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Initialization sent.
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Connecting to 192.168.253.3:8080
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Requesting resource /funambol/ds
11:57:28 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Sending data of size 826...
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Message sent
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Finished sending data of size 826.
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Data sent succesfully to server. Server responds OK
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Header: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

Set-Cookie:

X-funambol-ds-server: DS Server v.6.5.14

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Uncompressed-Content-Length: 1217

Content-Encoding: deflate

Content-Type: application/vnd.syncml+xml

Content-Length: 490

Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 09:57:29 GMT




11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Uncompressed-Content-Length: 1217
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Reading response...
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Content-length: 490
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Receiving data of size 490...
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Finished receiving data of size 490.
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Response read:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

(...)

11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Server requested syncmode "slow" for contact.
11:57:29 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Checking for forced slow-sync...
11:57:31 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - ---------------------- contact BEGIN (mode "slow") ----------------------
11:57:31 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - beginSync of contact source: opening Outlook session...
11:57:31 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Initialize COM library
11:57:31 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Create Outlook.Application instance...
11:57:36 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Logon to Outlook MAPI: default profile, show-dialog = true, new-session = false
11:57:36 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Creating Redemption.MAPIUtils instance...
11:57:38 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Creating Redemption.RDOSession instance...
11:57:38 GMT +1:00 [INFO] - Outlook session opened successfully! Using: Outlook 2007.
11:57:39 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Reading ALL contacts from folder '\\Dossiers personnels\Contacts' (1 found)...
11:57:39 GMT +1:00 [INFO] - Total contact items to send: 1
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [INFO] - Retrieved contact item: "Ducros Laurent"
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Modification message: estimated size 1604, allowed size 250000, real size 2549 / estimated size 1604 = 158%
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

(...)

11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Modifications sent.
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Connecting to 192.168.253.3:8080
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Requesting resource /funambol/ds;jsessionid=9545EB75190C4887DEC42467708C6072
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Sending data of size 1557...
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Message sent
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Finished sending data of size 1557.
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Data sent succesfully to server. Server responds OK
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Header: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

X-funambol-ds-server: DS Server v.6.5.14

Set-Cookie:

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Uncompressed-Content-Length: 694

Content-Encoding: deflate

Content-Type: application/vnd.syncml+xml

Content-Length: 347

Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 09:57:40 GMT




11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Uncompressed-Content-Length: 694
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Reading response...
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Content-length: 347
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Receiving data of size 347...
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Finished receiving data of size 347.
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Response read:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

(...)

11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [ERROR] - Server Failure: server returned error code 511
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - ---------------------- END (mode "none") ----------------------
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Server requested syncmode "none" for .
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [DEBUG] - Error occurred in sync: code 3 = Server Failure: server returned error code 511
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [ERROR] - Error in syncing: Server Failure: server returned error code 511
11:57:40 GMT +1:00 [INFO] -
================================================== ==========
================ SYNCHRONIZATION REPORT ================
================================================== ==========

SYNCHRONIZATION COMPLETED WITH ERRORS
-------------------------------------
Last error message = "Server Failure: server returned error code 511"
Last error code = 511

Contacts:
---------
Sync completed successfully!
Sync type: slow (requested by Server)

| on Client | on Server
--------|-----------|----------
New | 0/ 0 | 0/ 0
Updated | 0/ 0 | 0/ 0
Deleted | 0/ 0 | 0/ 0


... END OF TRANSMISSION

Everything seems to work till this damned 511 ERROR... Any Idea ?

Thanx !

[roccogalati]

can you post the error message in ds-server log?

[mikebarnet]

Originally Posted by mikebarnet

Hi!
I'm using zimbra connector for funambol. I installed it and i tested it with java demo client which is included with funambol. (i'm using funambol on mysql)
Just a question: there is a java demo client (demob.sh) and also a webclient (http://myhome:8080/funambol/webdemo), so, what's the difference?
when i open the web client i can add new contacts and calendar's events and i can see that it stores these data in my mysql database but it does nothing else. What i store with web demo remains in the mysql database and it is never stored also in zimbra.
What i want to say is that when i use java web demo first I insert new contacts and calendars and then when i do the synchronization i can see them in zimbra.
But i never see in zimbra what i add with webdemo.

But, what should do web demo? it only store entries in mysql database? it has non-sense.
When i click on synchro by using java demo, doesn't it have to store the mysql entries in my zimbra?
or is the contrary? zimbra have to store datas in webdemo?
why i can see only entries added with webdemo in my mysql database and not also what i have in my zimbra after doing the synchro?


thanks to all

just another question: in my mysql database i have soem tables named fnbl_pim_contact, fnbl_pim_calendar and i noticed that they are always blank. In these table are stored only the values i insert with webdemo.
If i try to synchro a mobile, synchro is ok, but it writes nothing in the database...
is it normal?

[joukom]

It's been quite some while when I last checked the status of this project, and current situation looks great indeed! I installed funambol 6.5.14 and zimbra connector 0.4.99, and got them nicely talking to our zimbra.

There are a few glitches I found out when syncing with my Nokia 9300i.

1) When I delete appointments in Zimbra calendar, they will not get deleted on the phone. I saw there was discussion earlier about that the deleting does not work, and that it would bee fixed soon, but there was no definite conclusion whether it was eventyally fixed or not. Should it work with current versions?

2) Every time I initiate a full sync on my phone (replace phone data with server data), it creates every event on the phone twice, and syncs the second copy back to server. So I end up with duplicate of every event on both the phone and Zimbra. Has anyone else got this kind of stuff? I'll do some more testing so I can pinpoint the problem better.

3) When the duplicates are synced back, the dupes of All Day events end up to the previous day. Other events are on the exactly same date/time as originals. Also if I have an All Day event on (eg.) May 19, it shows on the phone as an event starting May 19 00:00 and ending May 20 00:00, so the phone shows it on both days. Dunno if this is the phone's behavior, or if the connector should make the event as May 19 00:00-23:59.

I've got no problems whatsoever with character conversions (I've got lots of stuff with accented characters) or regarding TZ issues (except that Zimbra handles recurring events and DST wrong, but that has nothing to do with funambol or the connector

- J

[roccogalati]

Originally Posted by joukom

1) When I delete appointments in Zimbra calendar, they will not get deleted on the phone. I saw there was discussion earlier about that the deleting does not work, and that it would bee fixed soon, but there was no definite conclusion whether it was eventyally fixed or not. Should it work with current versions?

I never tested this case with my smartphone... i'll go and test it asap.

2) Every time I initiate a full sync on my phone (replace phone data with server data), it creates every event on the phone twice, and syncs the second copy back to server. So I end up with duplicate of every event on both the phone and Zimbra. Has anyone else got this kind of stuff? I'll do some more testing so I can pinpoint the problem better.

it's a strange behavior, it seems to work fine with my mobile. It created me duplicates entries only when i use java_web_demo. But it's normal.

3) When the duplicates are synced back, the dupes of All Day events end up to the previous day. Other events are on the exactly same date/time as originals. Also if I have an All Day event on (eg.) May 19, it shows on the phone as an event starting May 19 00:00 and ending May 20 00:00, so the phone shows it on both days. Dunno if this is the phone's behavior, or if the connector should make the event as May 19 00:00-23:59.

I think it's your phone behavior. It seems to be ok with my mobile.

[joukom]

Originally Posted by roccogalati

it's a strange behavior, it seems to work fine with my mobile. It created me duplicates entries only when i use java_web_demo. But it's normal.

I believe there's no need for action about this right now, it might be that I did not properly clear my setup after initial tests (I moved the test setup to production env, so there might have been some state info saved somewhere). I'll test with another account and phone and report back if this repeats.

Originally Posted by roccogalati

I think it your phone behavior. It seems to be ok with my mobile.

The phone supports an All Day event type, but All Day Events are not synced as such. Don't know where the problem lies (can be the phone as you said), but for me this is a minor issue.

Originally Posted by roccogalati

this may be a problem with the actual charset... i'll try to test this problem now...

Ahh, what I meant to say is that everything works OK. I just thought to mention it because there have been discussions of this kinds of problems earlier in this thread.

- J

PS. I just tested creating, modifying and deleting entries on Zimbra. If I delete a contact in Zimbra address book, it gets deleted on the phone as well. But if I delete an appointment and sync, it will stay on the phone, sync client reports no changes. If I then remove it on the phone and resync, the sync client says that it has removed 1 item on the server, but I can see no changes in Zimbra calendar. Moving events and creating new ones work OK.

[roccogalati]

I just tested creating, modifying and deleting entries on Zimbra. If I delete a contact in Zimbra address book, it gets deleted on the phone as well. But if I delete an appointment and sync, it will stay on the phone, sync client reports no changes. If I then remove it on the phone and resync, the sync client says that it has removed 1 item on the server, but I can see no changes in Zimbra calendar. Moving events and creating new ones work OK.

but are you using your mobile or the java client to perform this kind of tests?
What i noticed is that if i use the java client i get the same problem as you.
On the contary, if i use a mobile to do these tests, it seems to work fine.

Let me know...

[joukom]

Originally Posted by roccogalati

but are you using your mobile or the java client to perform this kind of tests?
What i noticed is that if i use the java client i get the same problem as you.
On the contary, if i use a mobile to do these tests, it seems to work fine.

Let me know...

Yes, I did it using my mobile phone (Nokia 9300i and it's native sync client, which speaks SyncML 1.1 AFAIK).

- J