418693 - Convert ISP-data files from RDF to JSON

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Joey Minta]

Attachment: patch v1

This is #6 on http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Thoughts_on_Removing_RDF

The isp-data files are already compiled into a javascript object at runtime.  So all I did was take intercept that runtime call, and reserialize those object back into JSON.  That means we get identical data, and don't have to worry about touching any callers. (Yay!)

I'm first attaching a 90% patch that works on my computer, but only with some hand-moving of files, etc.  Once I finish polishing up the makefile stuff it'll be ready for review.  Can someone tell me where googlemail.rdf and gmail.rdf were exported in the locales? That'd help a lot.

The second attachment is the modifications I made to the original ispUtils.js file to convert the data into JSON.  Third party providers can apply that patch, tweak the "domains" variable, and get similar serialization (The json file endes up in your profile directory).

Comment 1

[Joey Minta]

Attachment: rdf->json conversion patch

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The googlemail thing's so obscure, I always wind up looking it up in the bug (well, strictly speaking, I always find bug 385205 and use it to look up bug 367562).

What happens is that http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mail/locales/Makefile.in#93 lists the contents of http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mail/locales/en-US/isp/isps.txt, tacks on .rdf, and installs them from mailnews/base/ispdata to isp/ab-CD/

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I'm proposing to use XML, as part of a wider push to automatic configuration.
See http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/e8bdb0af31961908/a73bd97251b18777#a73bd97251b18777

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Proposed XML file format:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Tb:Autoconfiguration#Config_file_format
It's very close to the RDF, but normal XML, which is easy to read and write in JS using E4X.

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

The XML has been implemented, and TB3 now looks up the XML files on mozillamessaging.com (which covers GMail and AOL, as the local RDF files used to do) and in the same location as the RDF files (for admins).

Closing WONTFIX.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

RDF files are therefore deprecated and the RDF code will be removed once the old account wizard is removed.

Comment 7

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> RDF files are therefore deprecated and the RDF code will be removed once the
> old account wizard is removed.

Is there any bug about this? Also, any timetable for moving movemail+RSS ispdata hackery into a real solution?

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> The XML has been implemented, and TB3 now looks up the XML files on
> mozillamessaging.com

Which bug did that? Does SeaMonkey needs to port anything?

Comment 9

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Bug 422814

Comment 10

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Which bug did that? Does SeaMonkey needs to port anything?

(In reply to comment #9)
> Bug 422814

Thanks. Fine, SeaMonkey has already noticed that bug...