Locally deleted contacts do not sync

[paynor]

Hi, on my Androids when syncing contacts via DavX5 4.4.1.1 with Baikal carddav server, new contacts on server are added to Android contact client, but locally deleted contacts on Android client are not deleted from server. Here's an extract from the DavX5 verbose log (when syncronisation done just after local deletion of a couple of hundred contacts), urls modified here for security. Note the line
"Remote collection didn't change, no reason to sync"

`2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [at.bitfire.dav4jvm.BasicDigestAuthHandler] Trying Basic auth preemptively
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [at.bitfire.dav4jvm.BasicDigestAuthHandler] Adding Basic authorization header for https://myserver.com/baikal/html/dav.php/addressbooks/myname/default/
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] <-- 207 https://myserver.com/baikal/html/dav.php/addressbooks/myname/default/ (144ms)
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:35:41 GMT
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] server: Apache
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] x-powered-by: PHP/8.1.30
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] pragma: no-cache
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] x-sabre-version: 4.6.0
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] vary: Brief,Prefer
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] dav: 1, 3, extended-mkcol, access-control, calendarserver-principal-property-search, calendar-access, calendar-proxy, calendar-auto-schedule, calendar-availability, resource-sharing, calendarserver-sharing, addressbook
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] set-cookie: PHPSESSID=ba2c0ca05cd75c1eef3be467924c8346; path=/; HttpOnly
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] content-type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] x-onecom-cluster-name:
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] x-varnish: 313331258
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] age: 0
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] via: 1.1 webcache2 (Varnish/trunk)
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] content-length: 1462
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient]
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] <?xml version="1.0"?>
<d:multistatus xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:s="http://sabredav.org/ns" xmlns:cal="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav" xmlns:cs="http://calendarserver.org/ns/" xmlns:card="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:carddav"><d:response><d:href>/baikal/html/dav.php/addressbooks/myname/default/</d:href><d:propstat><d:prop><card:max-resource-size>10000000</card:max-resource-size><card:supported-address-data><card:address-data-type content-type="text/vcard" version="3.0"/><card:address-data-type content-type="text/vcard" version="4.0"/><card:address-data-type content-type="application/vcard+json" version="4.0"/></card:supported-address-data><d:supported-report-set><d:supported-report><d:report><d:expand-property/></d:report></d:supported-report><d:supported-report><d:report><d:principal-match/></d:report></d:supported-report><d:supported-report><d:report><d:principal-property-search/></d:report></d:supported-report><d:supported-report><d:report><d:principal-search-property-set/></d:report></d:supported-report><d:supported-report><d:report><d:sync-collection/></d:report></d:supported-report><d:supported-report><d:report><card:addressbook-multiget/></d:report></d:supported-report><d:supported-report><d:report><card:addressbook-query/></d:report></d:supported-report></d:supported-report-set><cs:getctag>819</cs:getctag><d:sync-token>http://sabre.io/ns/sync/819</d:sync-token></d:prop><d:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</d:status></d:propstat></d:response></d:multistatus>

2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [network.HttpClient] <-- END HTTP (1462-byte body)
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.ContactsSyncManager] Address book accepts vCards up to 9 MB
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.ContactsSyncManager] Address book supports vCard4: true
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.ContactsSyncManager] Address book supports Collection Sync: true
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.SyncManager] Processing local deletes/updates
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [settings.AccountSettings] Account [email protected] has version 16, current version: 16
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [settings.SettingsManager] Looking up setting contact_group_method
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [settings.SettingsManager] SharedPreferencesProvider: contact_group_method = null
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [settings.SettingsManager] DefaultsProvider: contact_group_method = null
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [settings.SettingsManager] Looked up setting contact_group_method -> no result
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.SyncManager] Removed 0 record(s) from server
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.SyncManager] Sent 0 record(s) to server
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.SyncManager] Local sync state = {"type":"SYNC_TOKEN","value":"http:\/\/sabre.io\/ns\/sync\/819","initialSync":false}, remote sync state = {"type":"SYNC_TOKEN","value":"http:\/\/sabre.io\/ns\/sync\/819"}
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.SyncManager] Remote collection didn't change, no reason to sync
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.AddressBookSyncer] Contacts sync complete
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.Syncer] at.bitfire.davdroid.addressbooks sync of Account {[email protected], type=bitfire.at.davdroid} finished`

[rfc2822]

Local changes (updates / deletions) are processed before looking up the server:

.SyncManager] Processing local deletes/updates
...
2024-10-23 11:35:41 95 [sync.SyncManager] Removed 0 record(s) from server

means exactly what you experience – DAVx5 doesnt find contacts that are markes as deleted and thus doesn't propagate the deletion to the server.

How did you delete the contact locally?