[Owncloud] Scratching an itch. Was: Re: Maintainers for contacts app needed

[Robin Appelman]

- Robin Appelman



On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 17:20, Thomas Olsen <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 December 2011 21:35 Bart Visscher wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Thomas Olsen wrote:
>> > On Thursday 01 December 2011 10:38 Jakob Sack wrote:
>> > > Apart from a good layout the most important thing missing is the
>> > > creation of a Name field (N). According to the RFC the name field is
>> > > required but ownCloud does not provide a way to add/edit this.
>> >
>> > I'm just starting to get my hands dirty in the code and am still taking
>> > baby steps ;-)
>> I have been working on the contacts app beside the calender app. I definitly
>> can help maintaining the contacts app.
>
> As I like to run regular, automated backups of my PIM data I looked into an
> easy way of getting the direct link to an address book, and noticed the
> elegant way it was possible in the calendar, where you can click on the
> 'Calendars' button and download it directly.
> I modified the export.php script for the contacts app and can now run backups
> with wget and http authentication.
> Then I implemented the nice popup window function to get an UI for it and one
> thing lead to another ;-)
>
> Status now:
>
> - UI: Same as for the Calendar app with to activation, CardDAV link, export,
> edit, delete and add.
>
> Functionality: CardDAV link and export implemented. Edit, add and delete is
> still WiP but I think I've got a pretty good idea on how it should be done.
>
> I need to add an integer (or boolean) field 'active' to the
> 'contacts_addressbooks' table. I can see that I need to edit database.xml but
> how do I make an automatic update of existing installations?

Automatic database updating is currently in the 'database' branch and
will be merged before 3.0 once it's properly tested.

>
> I need to add a method (or modify existing) to 'OC_Contacts_Addressbook' for
> getting only active address books.
>
> I need to make sure the underlying UI is updated on changes.
>
> I probably need several other things that I have forgotten or not yet
> considered ;-)
>
> Are there any objections on me going ahead with this?
>
>> BTW. For anyone looking for a nice task, look at the json-notification
>> branch. A lot of the error handling still needs to be moved to use the
>> notification system in that branch.
>
> I got carried away with this one and it's a nice way to get familiar with the
> code.
>
> --
> Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards
>
> Thomas Tanghus Olsen
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