Hi,
I had an idea in the early hours of the morning.
I think it would be very nice for users to be able to use their data in
different applications and particularly contacts informations ie :
- use addresses or GPS coordinates in MaemoMapper
- use email addresses in a mail client
- use phone numbers in phonelink (ok ok)
- ...
Those contact informations could be stored in GPE or Contacts or
where-ever each user wants it to be...
The best way to achieve this would be to establish a "weak" link between
the applications.
I suppose that DBus would be the best way to achieve this "weak" link.
Then a client application (MaemoMapper, mailClient, phonelink ...) would
only need to request a DBus Service to know the availability of the
informations ...
What do you think ?
I'll go and try to find informations on writing DBus services.
From what I understand DBus would start the application when needed.
If you've got any pointer ...
I suppose 2 services can not respond to the same DBus id ?
Should I then manage a generic service that would redirect calls to
different specific services (GPE, Contacts ...)
I suppose the best programming language for this would be c ?
The service that I plan would provide 2 methods
1: GetAvailableContactInfos
****************************
Param in :
==========
- Requested Infos (List of constants)
nothing or a list of predefined types ex : GPSCoordinate, FullAddress,
City, MobilePhoneNumber, PhoneNumbers ...
Param out :
===========
- Available Infos (List of Constants)
if nothing requested all the available types of informations, If
requested the ones available
Return :
========
Found, NotFound, ErrorCode
2: GetContactInfos
*******************
Param in :
==========
- Requested Infos (List of constants)
nothing or a list of predefined types ex : GPSCoordinate, FullAddress,
City, MobilePhoneNumber, PhoneNumbers ...
- Search (String)
A search string
- ShowGui (Boolean)
an indicator specifying if a GUI must be shown in case of ambiguity
(several responses)
- MultipleResponse (Boolean)
an indicator specifying if the service can reply with a list
Param out :
===========
- Response (List of List of String)
the results
Return :
========
Found, NotFound, ErrorCode
Thanks for your kind attention and possible help and sorry if I bothered
you ;)
Fred
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