[Telepathy] Folks status, the addressbook problem

[Travis Reitter]

On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 17:47 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> Le mardi 30 octobre 2012 à 15:57 +0000, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> > On 30/10/12 14:40, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > > 2) The Chat/Call/FileTransfer/etch apps, they need to load only one, or small
> > >    subset of individuals.
> > 
> > This leads to a new API-use-case apart from the two queries you named
> > (individual -> all personas and persona -> individual): "tell me about
> > the persona(s) whose XMPP JID(s) is/are smcv at example.com, as quickly as
> > possible".
> 
> In this case, the app should have a TpContact and wants an individual
> for it. From a TpContact folks can construct a persona uid like
> "telepathy:<account path>:<contact id>", and the DB must then answer the
> question "what's the individual uid for this persona uid?" and a 2nd
> question "what's all the personas uid for this individual uid?". Maybe
> an sqlite DB can answer those 2 questions in one query?

I'm 99% sure we have a fast way to do this already, whether through a
data member or method, though I can't find it with a quick skimming of
the API (which may be a problem in itself).

Philip, Jeremy, maybe you know what I'm referring to?

-Travis
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