From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2003-03-16T07:30:07+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: vcard 0.1 - a vCard decoding library

Ok, I implemented it.

I don't want to upload it to RAA right now, because I think asking them
to move 3 files from incoming to contrib in a week is a little much, and
I'm working on encoding, hooks into the OS X Address Book, and a script
to do Address Book lookups from within mutt right now, and thats all
stuff I want to release in the next few days.

I'll send 0.2 to anybody who's interested. Only change is the addition
of the functions described below by Rich.

I didn't make things work with symbols yet, because I think its such a
good idea that I'm going to make using symbols rather than strings for
hash indexing and lookups pervasive, I think it will be much more
efficient, particularly because right now I'm .downcase()ing my strings
all over the place because comparisons are suppposed to be
case-insensitive.

Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Cheers,
Sam

Quoteing sroberts@uniserve.com, on Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:05:34AM +0900:
> Quoteing rich@infoether.com, on Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:15:57AM +0900:
> > One quick recommendation is to use the index method [] as an alias for 
> > value_of on the VCard object...that way you could do this:
> > 
> > VCDATA =<<END
> > BEGIN:VCARD
> > VERSION:3.0
> > N:Kilmer;Rich;;;
> > FN:Kilmer Rich
> > EMAIL;type=HOME:rich@monotheos.com
> > EMAIL;type=WORK;type=pref:rich@infoether.com
> > END:VCARD
> > END
> > 
> > card = Rfc2425::VCard.new(VCDATA)
> > puts card["email"] #=> rich@infoether.com
> 
> I thought about it, but didn't because I ran into the "which one do I
> return, there can be multiple fields with that name" problem.
> 
> I just looked at RFC2426 in more detail, though, and it appears that
> type=pref is allowed for a lot of things that can have multiple
> occurences.
> 
> > and possibly accept symbols in addition to strings:
> > 
> > puts card[:email] #=> rich@infoether.com
> > 
> > and perhaps enable a second (optional) param for the type:
> > 
> > puts card[:email, :home] #=> rich@monotheos.com
> > 
> > class VCard
> >   def [](fieldname, ftype=nil)
> >     ...
> >   end
> > end
> 
> And if there are multiple matches, you'll always get the first, unless
> one of them is pref?(), ok?
> 
> Cheers,
> Sam
> 
>