Re: [Evolution-hackers] Querying Evolution with a contact's UID

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Sushma,

You now being the calendar maintainer (-;, any ideas for Tom on this
issue?

Cheers,
 Michael

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 14:49 -0400, Tom Copeland wrote:
> Howdy -
> 
> Recently I upgraded from Fedora Core 3 to FC4 and with it got a more
> recent Evolution and evolution-data-server (1.2.2).  Something seems to
> have changed with the UID querying; for example, I used to be able to
> get a particular contact via its UID by running a query like this:
> 
> EBookQuery* q = e_book_query_from_string(g_strdup_printf ("(is \"id\"
> \"%s\")", uid));
> 
> where uid is a char* containing "pas-id-42248B0B00000000" or some such.
> Now I always get a empty GList back from that kind of query - I even get
> an empty GList back if I do a simple "contains" query on the id, i.e.,
> "contains 'id' '0'".  
> 
> I can get all the contact UIDs by doing a
> e_book_query_any_field_contains(""), but that seems like a waste rather
> than being able to just query on the UID field.
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Tom
> 
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