Re: [Evolution] contacts - People API vs. Contacts API

[David Charlton <david wayside me uk>]

This has been bothering me for a while.  I use evolution (on ubuntu),
Android for phone and tablet and Outlook on windows 10.  They all sync
google contacts and calendars.  Which pretty much works.

Evolution/Google have been complaining for sometime about the contacts
versus people api use in evolution saying contact api is depricated.
 Google now say it is "sunsetted"  post June 2021 i.e. not saupported
 so I am not sure how it keeps working??  Looking at libgdata there is
some activity but it doesn't seem a hugely supported library and no
talk of moving to people api that I can see.

I have looked for an alternative but dont really want to go down the
microsoft/activesync route as it will involve effort and I dont really
trust microsoft not to pull up the drawbridge at some point.

So
a) Is there a move to support People API for evolution anywhere? And if
not will evolution stop accessing google contacts anytime soon?

b) Given what I am doing is there a better, longer term supported
solution?  (Though this is probably better in another post!)

Cheers

David

    On Wed, 2021-11-24 at 08:55 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list
wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-11-24 at 08:20 +0100, Torsten Krah via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > since which version of evolution the People API is used for
> > accessing
> > the contacts of Google contacts?
>
>       Hi,
> evolution(-data-server) used libgdata to access Google Contacts. The
> libgdata does not support the People API, thus the Google contacts
> are
> shown using the CardDAV interface the Google offers. That's built-in
> sync 3.42.0 of the evolution-data-server. Unfortunately, the CardDAV
> API is not that feature rich as the Contacts API.
>
> You an setup a CardDAV book accessing:
>
> https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/carddav/v1/principals/USER gmail com/lists/default/
>
> The only tricky thing is to create such book, then find its
> corresponding file under ~/.config/evolution/sources/ (for example by
> searching the files for "carddav/v1/principals" (quotes for clarity
> only) and change the [Authentication] Method=... to Method=Google
>
> Then right-click the new book and pick Refresh. If that won't show
> the
> contacts, then use `evolution --force-shutdown` and start the
> Evolution
> again.
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
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