Re: [Bitpim-devel] Importing vCard

[Alan P. <api...@ma...>]

Good news! I have just succeeded at writing a nice vCard parser for 
bitpim based on the approach in this message:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4245003

I used it against my own Address Book export and successfully put in 74 
contacts to my phone.

The phone supports up to 5 phone numbers and 3 emails. Since vCard 
supports arbitrary numbers of these, I basically go through the vCard 
and "fill up" the following structure until it's full:

Full Name
2 home
2 office
2 mobile
2 fax
pager
3 emails

Each are truncated if they exceed the LG's maximums (22 chr  names, 48 
chr phone & email). Since the vCard format includes 
type=(HOME|CELL|WORK|PAGER|FAX) it's trivial to properly setup the LG 
type mappings.
I then strip all non-digits from the phone numbers and construct the 
result['phonebook'] structure. That structure then must be added to the 
.bitpim-files/phonebook/index.idx file.

The result was wonderful. Right now it's all in a self-contained code 
chunk. I am going to work on integrated it with the GUI next.

If anyone's interested in the code, let me know. Also, what's the 
process for getting a cvs login for commits?

Thanks,
Alan


On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 07:49  PM, Roger Binns wrote:

>> Specifically the #1 thing to do is importing vCard entries to the
>> contact list. This was my main hope for BitPim as I want to put about
>> 100 contacts on and don't want to do it manually...
>
> See this message:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4245003
>
>> how would I get involved?
>
> Check out the CVS tree and start hacking.
>