imag/lib/domain/libimagcontact
Matthias Beyer 80c07171aa Make sure we can deserialize
Use default values when field is not there when we deserialize. This
does automatically the right thing.
2018-04-25 13:45:00 +02:00
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src Make sure we can deserialize 2018-04-25 13:45:00 +02:00
Cargo.toml Rewrite library 2018-04-25 12:54:01 +02:00
README.md Add basic documentation on how the lib works 2017-10-31 19:09:43 +01:00

libimagcontacts

The contact library basically only creates references to the actual vcard files, though it also can parse (via the vobject crate) the information and return it from an entry directly.

The architecture of indirections is as follows:


+--------------------------------+
|                                |
|     Store, as ContactStore     |
|                                |
+----------------+---------------+
                 |
                 | Provides access to
                 |
+----------------v---------------+
|                                |
|   (FileLock)Entry as Contact   |
|                                |
|      which is actually a:      |
|                                |
|     (FileLock)Entry as Ref     |
|                                |
+----------------+---------------+
                 |
                 | refers to
                 |
+----------------v---------------+
|                                |
|   vcard file (outside store)   |
|                                |
+----------------+---------------+
                 |
                 | contains
                 |
+----------------v---------------+
|                                |
|            vcard data          |
|                                |
+--------------------------------+

As the library is build upon libimagentryref, it does not create a new subcollection in the store /contacts, but uses the infrastructure of libimagentryref which automatically puts all references in /ref.