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

[From: Kurtis Heimerl]

Thanks Andrew, this seems to be roughly what I'm looking for. In
particular, it seems an OssoABookContact is asubclass of an EContact,
so I can just use this stuff directly.

However, I've looked at the associated code in hermes:
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/ggit/browse.php/?p=hermes;a=blob;f=package/src/org/maemo/hermes/engine/contact.py;h=a309b290ee506ca6de7f46108adb1541ea4fbb58;hb=HEAD
and I can't find where you get the "GList" and "EVCardAttribute"
types. I've got my own implementation of a glist (stolen from
somewhere online) but I'd prefer to not have to write the
EVCardAttribute myself (wrapping the evolution code).

My best guess is that it's coming through some long line of imports
(maybe evolution?) or the pygobject library, but neither of these seem
to have this type for the libraries I have access to. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> Here's some code from Hermes'[1] org/maemo/hermes/engine/contact.py:
>
> --------8<---------
> # 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
> ------->8--------
>
> 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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