[Telepathy] Massively complicating Folks for greater future

[frederik.nnaji at gmail.com]

Hi Misha,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 22:03, <mikhail.zabaluev at nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have created a branch on Folks to propose a more scalable API:
>
>
> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/zabaluev/folks.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/views
>
> The new classes are only stubs for discussion purposes. The main additions
> are IndividualList, providing an asynchronously retrieved live view on
> individuals matching a certain query, and an abstract Query class with some
> useful subclasses. The intent with queries is to broadly cover a few common
> cases, keeping the complexity of implementing queries in persona stores
> under control.


my guess is that specialized query belongs into the client, not into Folks.
Folks should provide accurate data, the client should provide ways of
managing or editing this data, tailored to the use case which the respective
client ("app") desires to address.
Case insensitivity and fuzzy search logic are nice features that a client
can include as needed, they won't make aggregating contact information more
accurate imo.
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