Searching for telephone numbers

[Daniel Vrátil]

Hi,

we currently don't index phone numbers. I'm currently working on a new 
indexing and searching infrastructure for Akonadi which will be more powerful. 
I wasn't initially planning to index phone numbers, but I can easilly add that 
to the new plan. The target for the new indexing is 18.04 release.

Technically adding that into the current infrastructure is not very difficult, 
but any change like this requires full re-indexing, which is very annoying for 
users and takes a lot of time. Since we will need to do this in March for the 
new infrastructure, I'd like to avoid forcing users to have to reindex in 
December as well.

In the meantime, what you could do is to fetch all contacts on the start, 
extract phone numbers and store a hash map from phone number to Akonadi ID, so 
you can then quickly fetch the full contact on-demand.

Cheers,
Daniel

On Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:47:22 CET Pallai Roland wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am planning a new plasmoid backed by SFLPhone/Ring to handle incoming
> and outgoing SIP calls at basic level. I want PSTN number lookup based
> on Akonadi but there is no API coverage searching for telephone numbers.
> Maintaining a full contact list in the plasmoid all the time is too much
> overhead IMO.
> 
> Do you have plans for that? Perhaps, do you accept patches to cover that
> functionality?


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