Re: Getting contacts data in Maps

[Jonas Danielsson <the sator gmail com>]

2014-10-01 10:41 GMT+02:00 Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk>:
> On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 09:59 +0200, Jonas Danielsson wrote:
> > In Maps we have talked about how nice it would be if we could integrate
> > contact data. For instance if we could route to a contact or search
> > for a contact in the main search.
> >
> > Is it today possible to get the data from the backend in some way?
> > What would need to be done in contacts to enable this?

Hi, thanks for reply!

> For displaying contact details, you might want to just open Contacts to
> view a specific contact. For tighter integration, e.g. displaying
> contacts on a map, you should use libfolks directly, which is the
> backend Contacts uses.

Yeah, it's the tighter integration we are after foremost. So we use libfolks
directly, any pointer on where to look in your code base to get a feel
of what Maps need to do?

We are hoping to get an OPW intern to work at this, so some simple
pointers might be nice.

> Depends on the specific features you want to implement, really.

Thanks!

> Philip

Jonas