[Bug 26866] add support for requesting handles for a vCard field or URI

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26866

--- Comment #34 from Eitan Isaacson <eitan.isaacson at collabora.co.uk> 2010-08-27 10:19:01 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #31)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > > +          <p>Attributes from the interface
> > > +            <tp:dbus-ref>org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection</tp:dbus-ref>
> > > +            and
> > > +            <tp:dbus-ref>org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.ContactInfo</tp:dbus-ref>
> > > +            are always returned, and need not be requested
> > > +            explicitly.</p>
> > 
> > I can see what you're trying to do here, but I don't think it's appropriate.
> 
> I agree. Getting any meaningful contact info attributes just from translating
> addresses is an unnecessarily strong requirement. A rump vCard could be
> returned based on what the CM knows immediately, but what is to tell the
> clients that they can ask for more?
> If ContactInfo attributes are explicitly requested, the CM could retrieve
> remote contact information in background and signal updates. But it should not
> be mandated behavior.

The new draft got rid of this, and instead you get Addressing attributes which
are different vcard representations.

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