Em Sexta-feira 25. Junho 2010, às 08.48.34, Patrick Ohly escreveu:
> Hello!
> 
> I thought about posting this on the Trolltech feedback list, but as
> MeeGo APIs were discussed here recently I decided to stay here.
> 
> I have one conceptual question about QtContacts and Tracker. QtContacts
> is the high-level API that applications are meant to use. It abstracts
> away from the underlying storage mechanism, which happens to be Tracker
> when using the qtcontacts-tracker backend.
> 
> The goal of using Tracker is that the data can be reused in other
> contexts, like direct SPARQL queries or other apps resp. APIs (like the
> future QtCalendar) - right? But how does that work in practice?
> 
> When finding a contact in Tracker, it would be necessary to open it in
> QtContacts. Likewise, when creating a contact in QtContacts, some way of
> referencing it in Tracker is needed. Is there an implicit guarantee that
> the QContactId has a certain relationship with Tracker?

I doubt that the Contacts API will give you that guarantee because it's 
supposed to be backend-agnostic. It could be gathering data from multiple 
backends and none of them might be Tracker.

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