[Evolution-hackers] Access to the EBook from client apps.

[Ben Martin <monkeyiq users sourceforge net>]

Hi,
  Firstly please CC me as I'm not on the list at current. Appoligies if
this is the incorrect forum for this type of msg, please just send where
I should redirect future mail if this is the case.

  I've been looking for a while now to add support for mounting
evolution's contacts and mailboxes with libferris. I've recently
installed evolution 1.5.3 from fedora1.90. If this is a fairly buggy
install or I should update does anyone know where rpms for a rh9 base or
src.rpms can be found for a latter evolution (or just rpmbuild the
tarball?).

  I started by creating a little toy to run though the contacts spitting
out a little data to cerr but this toy app works sometimes and hangs
others. Its a C++ app and designed to use STLPort (so basically its a
little testbed to get the hand of e-d-s before I start hacking in
support to libferris).

There doesn't seem to be any ebook_init() call that I found. Also I
noticed that it wanted libxml-2.0 and libbonobo-2.0 in order to compile,
to gtk-2.0 is just me being lazy in gtk_init().

$ cat Makefile
all:
        g++ `stlport-config --cflags --libs` contactsls.cpp -o
contactsls `pkg-config libebook-1.0 libxml-2.0 libbonobo-2.0 gtk+-2.0 --
cflags --libs`


extern "C" {
#include <libebook/e-book.h>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <libbonobo.h>
};

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;


int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
    EBook*   book  = 0;
    GError*  error = 0;

    /* init threads */	
    g_thread_init(NULL);
    gdk_threads_init();
  
    gtk_init( &argc, &argv );
    bonobo_init( &argc, argv );
    
    
    if( e_book_get_default_addressbook( &book, &error ) )
    {
        EBookQuery* query    = e_book_query_field_exists
( E_CONTACT_FULL_NAME );
        GList*      contacts = 0;
        
        if( e_book_get_contacts( book, query, &contacts, &error ))
        {
            GList* giter = g_list_first( contacts );
            for( ; giter; giter = g_list_next( giter ) )
            {
                EContact* c = (EContact*)giter->data;
            
                const gpointer d = e_contact_get_const( c,
E_CONTACT_FULL_NAME );
                cerr << "name:" << (const char*)d << endl;
            }
        }
    }
    
    return 0;
}

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