On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 11:12 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> >> With everything mapped 1:1 you can then use RDF query to search them
> >
> > Why would you need a 1:1 mapping to do a query? A query for "contacts
> > with an email of jamiecc blueyonder co uk" should be possible
> > independent of the number of email addresses a contact can have.
>
> we need the 1:1 mapping to get/set the values. Whatever we implement we
> must have a unique metadata name for a particular service in order to do
> that otherwise getting or setting a value would be impossible.
>
> One problem with metadata relationships is that some metadata like in
> the above case would only be searchable like Contact.JabberID as the
> actual storage would be in Contact.WorkJabberID or Contact.HomeJabberID
> so it might get confusing for developers if they try and get the value
> of Contact.JabberID which would be NULL.
A real world, physical example:
Name: Ross Burton
Email address (personal): ross burtonini com
Email address (personal): ross burton gmail com
Email address (work): ross openedhand com
How would you store this in Tracker? If we declare that Tracker Contact
objects are *not* vCard clones I can handle dropping the personal/work
annotations for now.
Ross
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Ross Burton mail: ross burtonini com
jabber: ross burtonini com
www: http://www.burtonini.com./
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