Re: Avoiding folks to link new personas

[Renato Filho <renato filho canonical com>]

I have this one line patch that solve my problem and help me to remove
more than 200 lines of code from my application.

diff --git a/folks/anti-linkable.vala b/folks/anti-linkable.vala
index 93a82c7..cbff5aa 100644
--- a/folks/anti-linkable.vala
+++ b/folks/anti-linkable.vala
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ public interface Folks.AntiLinkable : Folks.Persona
    */
   public bool has_anti_link_with_persona (Persona other_persona)
     {
-      return (other_persona.uid in this.anti_links);
+      return ("*" in this.anti_links) ||
+             (other_persona.uid in this.anti_links);
     }

   /**

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Renato Filho <renato filho canonical com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am working on ubuntu phone contact app, and we need a way to prevent
> folks to auto link personas.
> In the phone application the designers does not want that the contact
> get merged automatically because the user can have added the same
> e-mail by mistake or the personas are different but have the same
> phone number.
> And the auto merge can cause confusion for the user.
>
> My idea is keep using folks, but turn off the autolink, this way I can
> use folks to find the potential matches and link it if the user
> explicitly request that.
>
> The problem is that folks does not provide a way to do that today.
>
> I have some ideas that I would like to share with you guys and if
> possible I can implement it.
>
> 1) Create a property on persona store/backend/individual aggregator:
> Create a bool property on the aggregator where you can set  if you
> want the auto-link on or off.
>
> 2) Create a anti link rule:
> After create the persona set a anti link rule that block the persona
> to get linked with any other.
> Eg: Persona.change_anti_links(['*'])
>
> These are my ideas, I would like to know what do you think about that,
> any other idea is welcome.
>
> I really need this functionality, because workaround it doing anti
> links after the persona get linked causes a lot of problem and complex
> code.
>
> Thanks
> Renato