[maemo-developers] Getting a phone number from an OssoABookContact

[From: Andrew Flegg]

Here's some code from Hermes'[1] org/maemo/hermes/engine/contact.py:

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# Constants from http://library.gnome.org/devel/libebook/stable/EContact.html#EContactField
ebook = CDLL('libebook-1.2.so.5')
E_CONTACT_PHONE_OTHER = 30  
                            
    def get_phones(self):    
        """Return a list of phone numbers associated with this contact."""
        
        nums = []
        ai = GList.new(ebook.e_contact_get_attributes(hash(self._contact), E_CONTACT_PHONE_OTHER))
        while ai.has_next():
            attr = ai.next(as_a = EVCardAttribute)
            types = set()
            if attr.params:
                params = GList.new(ebook.e_vcard_attribute_param_get_values(attr.params.contents.next()))
                while params.has_next():
                    types.add(string_at(params.next()))
                
            device = 'VOICE' in types and 'landline' \
                  or 'CELL'  in types and 'mobile'   \
                  or None    
            type = 'HOME' in types and 'home' \
                or 'WORK' in types and 'work' \
                or None      
            number = string_at(attr.value().next())
            nums.append(PhoneNumber(number, type = type, device = device))
                             
        return nums          
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If you don't speak Python, what is basically does is (dealing with an EContact, but you can get that from an OssoABookContact IIRC:

  1) Get all attributes of type 30 - this returns all
     phone numbers, I've found.
  2) Loop over each attribute, the value of which is
     the phone number.
  3) The parameters of the attribute will tell you the different
     types flagged against this number.

HTH,

Andrew

[1] http://hermes.garage.maemo.org/

-- 
Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew at bleb.org   |   http://www.bleb.org/
Maemo Community Council chair
----- Original message -----
> Hello maemo-developers!
> 
> Does anyone know how to get a phone number (any number) out of an
> OssoABookContact instance? I'm at my wit's end; all of the online hits
> i've found have been doing the opposite and I can't figure this out.
> My guess was using the osso_abook_contact_get_value function, but I
> have no idea what the appropriate attribute would be. I've tried a
> great many (Cell, for instance) and gotten nothing.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
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