[Solved] Any nextcloud/owncloud sync client?

Calebin · January 18, 2024, 12:22pm

Hi all.

I have a question:

Well, part of my daily workflow consists in edit/create files in a nextcloud server.

Has haiku any app to sync those files? at this moment working on a USB pendrive (with the risk that supose)

Thanks in advanced!

extrowerk · January 18, 2024, 2:54pm

You could try to compile the official client: GitHub - nextcloud/desktop: 💻 Desktop sync client for Nextcloud

Calebin · January 19, 2024, 11:00am

Hi.

Compile fails…

I dont know about that. Im not developer … Later Will be post a log

BlueSky · January 19, 2024, 5:54pm

Just gave it a try to see if I could compile it. Apart from the dependencies mentioned on the github page I had to install a few additional packages on my nearly fresh install of Haiku x86_64 nightly. Here’s the complete list of packages:

qtkeychain_devel
cmake
qt5_tools
qtwebengine_bin_devel
sqlite_devel
karchive_devel
libsrvg

There are a few optional libraries, I’ve ignored them for now.
Now cmake stops because it requires inotify, which, being a Linux facility, we obviously don´t have.

Do we have some kind of compatibility or translation layer that emulates inotify on top of our native node monitoring API? Has anybody encountered an inotify requirement while porting software to Haiku and found a solution?

Maybe the nextcloud desktop can somehow be built without inotify, I didn`t dig deeper into that.

Begasus · January 19, 2024, 8:06pm

Line 210 in CmakeList.txt, change to

    if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE AND NOT HAIKU)

Master199 · January 19, 2024, 8:06pm

I’ve tried to build it a few weeks ago, but I didn’t found a way around the inode dependency (well, i hacked something together to get an executable, but it crashes immediately).

But you can access the Nextcloud files using WebDAV, we have „cadaver“ for that, but I didn’t tried it yet

Begasus · January 19, 2024, 8:14pm

My guess is that this file needs Haiku’s specifics:

desktop-3.11.0/src/gui/folderwatcher_linux.cpp:17:10: fatal error: sys/inotify.h: No such file or directory

EDIT, just saw there is haikuports/net-misc/owncloud-client in the repo with patches related to this, didn’t fully investigate, but could be a start to get this fixed?

BlueSky · January 19, 2024, 9:08pm

Thanks @Begasus and @Master199 for your help. Since I´m not a nextcloud user myself I´m not overly motivated to look any further into this but maybe it can serve as starting point for someone else.

Then again, writing an inotify compatibility library for Haiku would be a cool project. We´ll see …

BlueSky · January 19, 2024, 9:22pm

There are OS specific folderwatcher implementations for Linux (inotify), Mac OS and Windows. Probably wouldn´t be too complicated to write a Haiku specific implementation using our native node monitoring api.

Begasus · January 20, 2024, 6:39am

That is what has been done here:

github.com

haikuports/haikuports/blob/d2427aba7cb036c982d080c49699ce06f9cbbcf1/net-misc/owncloud-client/patches/owncloud_client-2.6.1.patchset#L225


      
          #include "folderwatcher_mac.h"
          +#elif defined(Q_OS_HAIKU)
          +#include "folderwatcher_haiku.h"
          #elif defined(Q_OS_UNIX)
          #include "folderwatcher_linux.h"
          #endif
          diff --git a/src/gui/folderwatcher_haiku.cpp b/src/gui/folderwatcher_haiku.cpp
          new file mode 100644
          index 000000000..090e7d00e
          --- /dev/null
          +++ b/src/gui/folderwatcher_haiku.cpp
          @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
          +/*
          + * Copyright (C) by François Revol <revol@free.fr>
          + *
          + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
          + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
          + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
          + * (at your option) any later version.
          + *
          + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but

Master199 · January 20, 2024, 8:25am

I’ve tried to adapt the patch to the new version of the nextcloud client. After some tweaking and adding a few lines here and there, it compiles fine. But i still get a missing symbol (_Z8c_utimesRK7QStringPK7timeval), i try to look in that in the next days.

Master199 · January 23, 2024, 10:57pm

screenshot1

I’ve got it to build and it works. Next i try to write a recipe and create a patch.

I couldnt figure out how to fix the missing symbol during runtime (from above). i had to deactivated the whole function to “solve” that problem. It bothers me, everything seems to be in place, but something is still wrong…

Calebin · January 24, 2024, 1:39am

Oh wow!!!

Thank you!!!

grexe · January 24, 2024, 9:11am

Wow this is huge! Thanks for the collective effort! Should get my new NAS soon (Storaxa Kickstarter project) and could really use that…

BlueSky · January 24, 2024, 4:05pm

Is the repo with your changes accessible online?

Master199 · January 24, 2024, 7:38pm

No, but i try to get the recipe and patch ready as soon as possible

K11 · January 25, 2024, 4:16pm

But to what extent can you rely on NextCloud? I don’t mean security/privacy but file integrity. A few years ago I remember a friend who put it on a server saying it was a bit buggy. Is it solid these days? To be fair, even Apple’s iCloud was considered rather wobbly in the early days but seems to have improved. I just need my file synching services to be really solid…

stoltenberg · January 26, 2024, 8:56am

… a heart is not enough here Thank you very much!

stoltenberg · January 26, 2024, 9:00am

Back in the day it was quite horrible. Nearly every major upgrade was crashing and uploading large directories was painful. But the last years and versions were quite smooth. I’m using it daily with Linux, Mac and iOS-clients and it’s very stable.

K11 · January 26, 2024, 6:34pm

Good. This will be a boon for Haiku.