Re: [Evolution-hackers] Accessing EDS in Python

[Raul Gutierrez Segales <raul gutierrez segales collabora co uk>]

Hi, 

On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 21:45 +0200, David Klasinc wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 13:33 +0100, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote:
> > Also, as pointed out by Milan on irc, your code is missing a call to
> > open_sync().
> 
> Yeah, that was left out while copy/pasting.
> 
> > Though you might consider making everything async.
> 
> I'll think about this when I have the basics going on. :) Anyway the
> current updated source:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> from gi.repository import EBook
> 
> contacts = []
> 
> client = EBook.BookClient.new_system()
> ret = client.open_sync(client, None)        # ???
> if not ret:
>   print "*sob*"
> 
> query_string = "(contains \"full_name\" \"a\")"
> ret, contacts = client.get_contacts_sync(query_string, None)
> 
> print contacts
> 
> if not ret:
>   print "*sob*"
> 
> Results in a number of warnings and python segfaulting.
> 
> ** (process:13555): WARNING **:
> (/build/buildd/pygobject-2.28.6/gi/pygi-argument.c:1349):_pygi_argument_to_object: runtime check failed: (transfer == GI_TRANSFER_NOTHING)
> 
> This is returned for every hit in the database. So I am guessing
> something goes wrong when trying to access contents of the list that is
> returned.

The element-type of the list wasn't annotated, pushing a fix for that. 

Cheers,
Raul