nextcloud / nextcloud/nextcloudfileproviderkit
Implement incremental/partial fetch
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- Dominant language
- Swift
- Stars
- 8
- Forks
- 1
- PR merge metrics
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Description
When a file is changed remotely, the Nextcloud desktop client will retrieve the entirety of the changed file's contents. However, there are more efficient ways to handle file change retrieval.
The File Provider API provides some method to acquire partial contents of a file. However, the server does not provide a mechanism at this time to provide the specific parts of a file that have changed.
Your task is to implement an algorithm that can implement this. Ideally you will touch parts of the server and the desktop client, so that other clients may also benefit.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by mapping the File Provider API's partial-content methods and the server and desktop-client boundaries, then determine how changed ranges can be identified and exchanged. Done means an algorithm retrieves partial file contents and benefits both the desktop client and other clients.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, swift
- Domain
- backend, desktop-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100