Challenges in Implementing WebDAV/CalDAV Standards for Homechart
By
candiddevmike
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The article discusses the challenges of implementing WebDAV/CalDAV clients and servers despite the standards being well-documented and established. The author explains why they chose to create their own implementation for Homechart rather than using existing Go libraries like go-webdav, citing missing features like server-side collection synchronization and interface misalignment with their data model.
Key quotes
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Implementing a WebDAV/CalDAV client and server should be easy! It's a well documented spec, standardized in the early 00s, and somewhat widely supported.
Now before you mention NIH syndrome, yes, we looked at the existing Go implementation, go-webdav.
This library was lacking some key features we needed, like server-side collection synchronization, and the interfaces didn't really align with our data model.
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