{"id":2331,"date":"2012-10-22T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:12","slug":"contact-service-connector-interface-proposal-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/contact-service-connector-interface-proposal-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Service Connector Interface Proposal Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thunderbird’s new address book will not exist in a vacuum. From the get-go, I’d like to bake-in the notion that contacts can exist outside of Thunderbird, and can be sync’d with.<\/p>\n

There are lots of different contact providers I’d like to support. Mainly, CardDAV (which got a big boost since Google’s announcement<\/a>), LDAP, the System Address Book, and Facebook.<\/p>\n

I’ve been working on an interface (the application-programming kind – not the user kind) for contact provider connectors. It’s not been easy trying to generalize across each of the different features and requirements of these contact providers, but I think I got somewhere.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, here’s a draft of my interface proposal. Are there any glaring holes?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thunderbird’s new address book will not exist in a vacuum. From the get-go, I’d like to bake-in the notion that contacts can exist outside of Thunderbird, and can be sync’d with. There are lots of different contact providers I’d like to support. Mainly, CardDAV (which got a big boost since Google’s announcement), LDAP, the System […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1032,861,862],"tags":[934,1037,1036,935,96,1038,1040,1039,35,959,867],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ensemble-thunderbird","category-mozilla-2","category-thunderbird","tag-address-book","tag-carddav","tag-contact-provider","tag-contacts","tag-ensemble","tag-facebook","tag-ldap","tag-linkedin","tag-mozilla","tag-osx","tag-thunderbird-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prmTy-BB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}