[Gmailagent-devel] Something to add to libgmail

[Stas Z <sta...@gm...>]

I was hacking gmailagent to add a 'save contacts when something goes
wrong' function.
It occurs to me that libgmail2 does very little to save the contacts
in case or errors.

I just paste the stuff I come up with for gmailagent.
(It can be found in Gmail.py)

Stas

def save_contacts(contacts):
    """Save the contact in case of an error. This is an attempt to prevent
    data loss in case of an error when interacting with Gmail contacts."""
    try:
        f =3D open(os.path.expanduser('~/.GmailContacts.pickle'),'w')
        pickle.dump(contacts,f)
        ## XXX TODO: some way to load the pickled object and restore it
    except Exception,info:
        text =3D "Attempt to pickle the contacts %s" % str(info)
        logging.critical(text)
    f.close()
    try:
        f =3Dopen(os.path.expanduser('~/.GmailContacts.txt'),'w')
        text =3D "#An error occured in GmailAgent and these contacts are
saved\n"+\
                "#to this file in an attempt to save them\n"+\
                "#A contact is saved as follows:\n"+\
                "#GmailID   Name   email  notes\n"
        f.write(text)
        for con in contacts:
            name,email,notes,id =3D
con.getName(),con.getEmail(),con.getNotes(),con.getId()
            f.write("%s %s %s %s\n" % (con.getId(),\
                                    con.getName(),\
                                     con.getEmail(),\
                                     con.getNotes()))
        f.close()
    except Exception,info:
        logging.critical(str(info))
        return str(info)
       =20

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