Re: [evolution-patches] patch for #58701 (addressbook)

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 13:50 +0530, Sivaiah N wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 05:58, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 11:14 +0530, Sivaiah N wrote:
> > > Ok, So in case of *_start_book_view call i don't think it matters
> > > whether backends use e_book_backend_sexp or not as anyway
> > > e_data_book_view_notify_update  does the matching by calling
> > > e_book_backend_sexp_match_contact before updating the view
> > 
> > Hmm, actually it seems silly to use e_data_book_view_notify_update, as
> > the only thing that can ever happen is an _add from start_book_view, but
> > that's beside the point I suppose.
> > 
> > > Groupwise backend  does the  things similar to  file backend  both in
> > > start_book_view  and get_contact_list methods.
> 
> > How does it work?  iterate over all contacts on the server?  or does it
> > generate a query?
> Actually it maintains summary, so first we see whether it is summary
> query or not. If it is , we search over  summary to get ids of the
> matching contacts and get only those contacts from server. Otherwise we
> get all contacts present in the book and 
> iterate over them and match against query.

so there's no query language exposed to the client through groupwise?
iterating over the entire addressbook seems like an awfully slow way to
query.

Chris