Re: [Bitpim-devel] Importing vCard

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

It definitely depends how generalized you want the whole thing to be... 
what's the goal for the project? LG only? Other phones? That's an 
important question.

Also, it's practically guaranteed that most phones will support only a 
subset of what vCard supports. Therefore, some logic will need to 
determine which numbers to take and which ones to "drop on the floor". 
Also, there are other issues along the customization axis... for 
instance, should names be "Last, First" or "First Last". Should this be 
configurable?

Maybe when the user starts the import of a vCard file a "prefs" form 
should come up to allow the user to make his own customizations?'

I read through the vCard spec and there are some cool things.. first of 
all, pics of people can be embedded in the vCard, which means you could 
support picture ID from vCard import. Although currently AddressBook on 
MAC doesn't export images in the vCards.

As far as the "main" number goes, in a vCard a particular TEL number 
can be "preferred" and I think only ONE per card can be, so maybe 
that'd be a good way to map "main". There's definitely more work I 
should do to make the parser more generalized to handle some of these 
issues. Right now I just made it Quick&Dirty so it'd work for me...

Alan

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 03:48  PM, Roger Binns wrote:

>> Each are truncated if they exceed the LG's maximums (22 chr  names, 48
>> chr phone & email).
>
> I've got to decide what the right thing to do about this is.  My 
> feeling
> is to silently truncate entries when writing them to the phone.  
> Although
> being a little more intelligent may help (eg removing punctuation 
> first,
> taking out the middle of long words and replacing with ...)
>
> I don't think the import code should have to know about the lengths.  
> It
> will however have to know about types (one of my bugbears with someone
> else's software was that there was a 'main' number type that they 
> mapped
> really badly when converting to something that doesn't have 'main' like
> the LG).
>
> Roger
>
>
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