[Development] [QtContacts] Add a new contact Type

[Konstantin Ritt]

Completely agree with Chris, and I'm missing this functionality, too.
Does "QContactCollection" sound ok to you?

Regards,
Konstantin


2014-03-18 3:29 GMT+02:00 Chris Adams <chris.adams at qinetic.com.au>:

> Hi Renato,
>
> Is an address book a contactable entity?  It seems like it's just a
> collection of contacts, rather than a contactable entity, in which case I
> would prefer something like the QOrganizerItemCollection API to be added to
> QtContacts instead, perhaps, or some other solution.
>
> To be more precise: a contact group may be contactable (eg, a group may
> have a mailinglist, an organization headquarters, and so on), which is why
> I think it still makes sense to model a group as a type of contact (with
> group membership denoted by QContactRelationship between the group and its
> member contacts), but an addressbook is just a logical collection of
> contacts.
>
> In the qtcontacts-sqlite engine, we simply use different filters on the
> QContactSyncTarget detail to determine which logical collection the contact
> came from.  So far, that has been adequate for our purposes, but admittedly
> we have some rather complex code to deal with all of the edge-cases ;-)
>
> Matt and I are still busy with other stuff for the next week, but
> hopefully (I know I've been saying this for about a month now) after that,
> we'll turn our attention to QtPIM API discussions and improvements.  I've
> added this to QTBUG-31824.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Renato Araujo <renatox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Today in QtContacts we can define a contact type using the enum
>> QContactType::TypeValues  which have the values { TypeContact, TypeGroup },
>> this allow us to create/edit/list groups using the same functions used by
>> the contacts.
>> But I am missing a way to retrieve the available contacts address books,
>> because of that I would like to propose to create a new contact type which
>> ca be "TypeSyncTarget" this could be used to retrieve/edit/update "address
>> books"  and could be set as value for
>> QContactSyncTarget.
>>
>> What do you think about that? Is that a valid solution?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho
>>
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