[Gmailagent-devel] RFC: libgmail contacts

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

Hello

Just some random thoughts about the contacts support in libgmail
including the extended notes stuff andrew cooked up.

1. Do we really need the extended data from the contacts?
I think that a person that really wants to keep all kinds of
data about their contacts will use evolution of some other app
but probably doesn't use Gmail contacts.

2. We *must* consider adding some sort of delay between page
requests to Gmail. We are risking "Lockdown error in sector 4"
situations when users have a lot of contacts.
"Lockdown...." is when Gmail disables the account for a period of
time due to usual Gmail usage.
User 'posey_p' has reported this:
"""=20
  I am calling getSpecInfo() for each entry to get their notes fields for e=
ach
gmail contact. After a certain number of requests, Gmail sends me an "Unusu=
al
usage error" and disables my account!
 """

3. Should we use Andrews approach of 'parsing' javascript by using Python's
exec statement or use libgmail's text processing?
The exec approach seems to be better when it comes to unusual characters
inside the page but I feel that the libgmail way is much more secure.

Cheers,
Stas

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