Hello, The contact information you retrieve from the API is the information available on the Contacts Manager web UI (different from gTalk). If a contact doesn't have a full name set, it won't be available through the API.
Best, Alain On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Jan Ohlsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > When using the Contacts API and fetching the roster (contact list), the > Full Name is only available on a few of the contacts, even though it is > shown in the chat list when logging into Gmail / Google Apps. For most of > the contacts, only the e-mail address is provided. > > If I go into Gmail and manually edit a contact's fullname, the fullname > for this contact then becomes available through the Contacts API. > > What is the logic behind this? > > *How can we reliably retrieve the fullname for a contact through the > Contacts API ?* > > > See also: Fetch gmail contacts along with Firstname, lastname, > Phonenumber and > email<https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/?place=topic%2Fgoogle-contacts-api%2FkCUg6aSQUFs%2Fdiscussion> > > > Regards, > > JT > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html > -- Alain Vongsouvanh | Developer Programs Engineer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html
