Import VCF contacts into Paroli

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

Hi,

Thanks for the information.

I just wanted to import all those contacts and as such I needed something
that works. Fortunately it was easy enough to hack that existing script.

I know practically zero of Python, I'm more of a C or Perl guy :)
so integrating with paroli-settings or whatever is probably not gonna happen
from me, sadly :(

Rui

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 01:08:04PM +0200, Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra<rms at 1407.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I fixed a python script that imports VCF files into Paroli.
> >
> > I'd like to make it do a better job, but I'd need Paroli's
> > contacts DB structure, Mirko, do you have a description somewhere?
> 
> 
> Paroli Contacts format is cPickle. I think you use the same in your script.
> 
> The actual saving happens in paroli-core/tichy/persistance.py:61
> def save(self, data):
> ....
>     file = self._open('w')
>     pickle.dump(data, file, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL
> 
> Its just a dump of cPickle module.
> 
> 
> The question is, how data is prepared. The data (to be saved) is prepared at
> paroli-services/phone/contact.py:251
>     def save(cls):
>         """Save all the phone contacts"""
>         logger.info("Saving phone contacts")
>         contacts = tichy.Service.get('Contacts').contacts
>         data = [c.to_dict() for c in contacts if isinstance(c, PhoneContact)]
>         tichy.Persistance('contacts/phone').save(data)
>         yield None
> 
> Now the question is what is "c" and where is the to_dict() method:
> The to_dict() method is at contact.py:212, and the c is a Contact
> instance of Contact class (line 140).
> 
> So if you place some print here and there it should reveal anything you want
> to know. For developing paroli (how to set up), please see this wiki page:
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli-developer-setup
> 
> Hope it helps. If you have any question or want to discuss more, please
> drop in #paroli channel, we are usually there.
> 
> We could also integrate this import thingy in paroli->settings application.
> So if you are persevering enough, everyone will benefit from it;)
> 
> And we are exploring opimd integration, once it is stable enough,
> it is likely paroli contacts will be migrated over. So integrating this
> vcf importer is required at some stage anyway.
> 
> I urge you to start contributing to paroli!;)
> 
> Laszlo
> 
> ps: Maybe Mirko can add a bit more info. But he is very busy these days
> with his personal life. I hope the dust will settle really soon.
> 
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