[Development] [QtContacts] Add a new contact Type

[Renato Araujo]

Yes I agree with you guys, the enum is not a good solution. The
QContactCollection
is a very good and complete solution. I suggested the enum because the API
change is very small and I was thinking about a short term solution.
But anyway I have some workarounds in my code to simulate the address book
for now :D. I can wait for the new API (BUG 31824).

Thanks.








Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Konstantin Ritt <ritt.ks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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