The current way of tracking the need to update the metadata without
propagation using a separate flag makes it difficult to track
priorities between the local and remote tree. The logic is also
difficult to logically cover since the possibilities matrix isn't
100% covered, leaving the flag only used in a few situations
(mostly involving folders, but not only).
The reason we need to change this is to be able to track the sync
state of files for overlay icons. The instruction alone can't be
used since CSYNC_INSTRUCTION_SYNC is used for folders even though
they won't be propagated. Removing this logic is however not possible
without using something else than CSYNC_INSTRUCTION_NONE since too
many codepath interpret (rightfully) this as meaning "nothing to do".
This patch adds a new CSYNC_INSTRUCTION_UPDATE_METADATA instruction
to let the update and reconcile steps tell the SyncEngine to update
the metadata of a file without any propagation. Other flags are left
to be interpretted by the implementation as implicitly needing
metadata update or not, as this was already the case for most file
propagation jobs. For example, CSYNC_INSTRUCTION_NEW for directories
now also implicitly update the metadata.
Since it's not impossible for folders to emit CSYNC_INSTRUCTION_SYNC
or CSYNC_INSTRUCTION_CONFLICT, the corresponding code paths in the
sync engine have been removed.
Since the reconcile step can now know if the local tree needs metadata
update while the remote side might want propagation, the
localMetadataUpdate logic in SyncEngine::treewalkFile now simply use
a CSYNC_INSTRUCTION_UPDATE_METADATA for the local side, which is now
implemented as a different database query.
* Progress: Don't count dirs without propagation jobs #4856
These directory SyncFileItems are necessary for bookkeeping
but should not influence the progress display at all.
* Progress: Skip ignored files #4856
* Ensure every time a file becomes a directory or the other way around
the item is flagged as INSTRUCTION_TYPE_CHANGE.
* Delete the badly-typed entity if necessary in the propagation jobs.
Progress estimation is usually based on transfer speed. That makes no
sense when we're doing operations like deletes, that need very little
data transfer but nevertheless take a long time.
This hack attempts to detect this case better and switches to a
different estimate.
We should rewrite this to maintain and update estimates for the
transfer speed, per-file overhead and chunk-assembly overhead each
time an item finishes. Then we could provide more consistent progress
estimates without ad-hoc fixes like this one.
Also, there's an issue where resuming a partial download will lead
to exaggerated transfer speed estimates.
Jocelyn Turcotte