Akonadi: Lookup Contact by UID Help please

[Daniel Vrátil]

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.

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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