[jira] [Updated] (CB-1291) Windows 8 Contacts - Find+Create APIs

["Bas Bosman (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1291?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Bas Bosman updated CB-1291:
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    Component/s: Plugin Contacts

> Windows 8 Contacts - Find+Create APIs
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>                 Key: CB-1291
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-1291
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Plugin Contacts, Windows 8
>            Reporter: Jesse MacFadyen
>            Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
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> It looks like we will need to approach Contacts on Windows 8 differently.
> The goal of the Contacts API is not to have every app become a ContactProvider, which would result in chaos ... 
> Windows 8 does not have built in contacts, they are managed internally by the People app.  The People app is a ContactProvider  so when you are performing an operation that requires a contact, you are given the opportunity to select one or more contacts from the People app, as well as every other app that publishes the ContactProvider contract.
> Searching contacts cannot be achieved given Windows 8 APIs and interaction with the People app, but the primary use case of picking one or more contacts to interact with can work.
> I think the best approach would be to return a contact object as defined by PhoneGap APIs, but allow the user to actually do the selection ( via the picker )
> Here is a good write-up by a Microsoft evangelist about how contacts work on Windows 8.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/glengordon/archive/2012/08/28/windows-8-apps-for-the-phonegap-developer-contacts.aspx



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