Akonadi: Lookup Contact by UID Help please

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 9:44:39 PM CEST Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I reproduced the issue on a simple test case. the problem seems to be a
> combination of how we index the UID and your specific UID format - the dash-
> separated strings. All our unit tests only used simple UID strings (like
> "uid1"), which worked. Just changing the testcase UID to
> "abcd-efgh-1234-5678" broke the test. I'm looking into it now.

I pushed a fix to akonadi-search that should make searching by UID work. If you 
want to have it locally, you can build akonadi-search from Applications/17.04 
branch locally for now, the patch will be present in next bugfix release on May 
11.

Dan

> 
> Dan
> 
> On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 9:07:20 PM CEST Klaas Freitag wrote:
> > Am 18.04.2017 um 12:01 schrieb Daniel Vrátil:
> > Hi Dan,
> > 
> > thanks for your help. We make progress ;-)
> > 
> > >> The UID that I have stored in Kraft is
> > >> df6748f1-c13d-438c-a4d3-86d395630f92. But look what delve is retrieving
> > >> as the UID, it is kind of scrambled. The name rubilos markotiris makes
> > >> sense.
> > >> Can you explain that?
> > > 
> > > The "scrambling" is because for some reason, the UID is indexed as a
> > > plain
> > > text, so Xapian indexes each part of the UID independently (split by the
> > > dash- signs) an in arbitrary order. It means that you should be able to
> > > search for any contacts with UID that contains "438c", but that does not
> > > really make any sense and nobody will ever do it. We should fix this and
> > > only index UIDs as terms.
> > > 
> > > In Akonadi Console -> Browser open your contacts collection where the
> > > contact you are trying to search for exists and click the contact. In
> > > the
> > > lower part go to the "Internals" tab and check the "ID". It should say
> > > 3.
> > > If it does, then we have a problem somewhere in Akonadi.
> > 
> > That seems to be the case. The ID _is_ 3.
> > 
> > I tested something different and searched for the email rather than the
> > the UID, otherwise no change. That worked perfectly fine, the Contact
> > was returned.
> > 
> > So the problem seems to only exist when searching for UID.
> > 
> > Just a wild guess: Maybe there is a number versus string problem
> > somewhere in the underlying code? Maybe the UID is expected as numerical
> > type somewhere?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Klaas


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