Automatic XML file export

[FedericoCeratto]

Hello and thanks for developing Gourmand. It works very well with Tournant and Syncthing.
It would be really neat if Gourmand could export the XML file for Tournant every time something is changed.
Users could configure the file location.

[FriedrichFroebel]

This sounds like a rather specific approach. Wouldn't a simple CLI interface suffice here for you to add a cronjob, file watcher or similar?

[FedericoCeratto]

Perhaps I misunderstood the intended workflow. I'll describe my setup to clarify:
I'm using Gourmand on a desktop and Tournant on a phone.
Tournant loads the recipes from a directory on the phone that is kept in sync with the desktop using https://syncthing.net/ based on this
My goal is to be able to create or edit a recipe on the desktop and immediately get the update on the phone.
(afact this should also work with git-annex or dropbox )

[FriedrichFroebel]

Personally, I do not think that adding automated exports of the database file to an XML file on every change is something which should be part of the Gourmand core application. Instead, I proposed to use the automation tools of your system to trigger a CLI command of Gourmand to do the export, maybe bound to other/your own conditions. On Linux-based systems, possible triggers could be cron or file system watchers.