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Latest News
9 Feb 2008, nsIAddrBookSession dropped and merged into nsIAbManager
A few days ago (2nd Feb in fact), I checked in a patch from bug 410158 that dropped nsIAddrBookSession and merged its interface functions in nsIAbManager.
This provides us with just one central address book service where add/remove books can take place, and also where to go to for listening for updates.
16 Dec 2007, nsIAddressBook replaced by nsIAbManager
Yesterday, I checked in the final patch in a set of patches that changed nsIAddressBook to be a service and renamed it to nsIAbManager.
The main thing to note is that nsIAbManager is a service and should be obtained via getService/do_GetService.
nsIAbManager is intended to become the "heart" of the address book with its main aim to allow management of the address books and the notification system. We hope to soon merge the listener/notification functions from nsIAddrBookSession into it as well as other improvements to its functionality.
30 Nov 2007, Automated Tests for Address Book.
We've just checked in bug 405147 on trunk. This has provided automated unit tests for some of the nsIAbDirectory functionality (or specifically the nsAbMDBDirectory implementation of it - the Mork-based local address books).
The unit tests will be run every time the SeaMonkey tinderbox build SeaMonkey on Linux. We hope to be extending it to one of the Thunderbird tinderboxes soon bug 406227.
This is good news for us, as it'll mean regressions in functions will be quickly picked up, and it also provides us with a basis to extend the unit tests to more areas of address book, and into the rest of MailNews.
More information about the automated tests can be found here: [1]
22 Nov 2007, Palm Sync re-enabled on SeaMonkey trunk builds
With thanks to some help from the Mozilla build team, we've now got Palm Sync re-enabled for SeaMonkey's main trunk builds. This should help with testing. We hope Thunderbird will follow soon (bug 405012).
19 Aug 2007, Read-only integration with Mac OS X Address Book
Trunk (SeaMonkey 2.0a1pre/Thunderbird 3.0a1pre) nightly builds now have the capability to access the Mac OS X address book in a read-only fashion. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927#c169 for how to set it up. Bugs/issues with the integration should be filed as new bugs after having first checked for duplicates.
Roadmap & Work In Progress
The roadmap isn't detailed but gives a general short-long term outlook on where the address book is heading.
The roadmap also gives some idea of the work currently in progress.
Unfortunately, we can't give timescales as time available for developers is limited.
Help Wanted
There are many areas we wish to improve and would like help with, please have a look at the MailNews:Address Book Help Wanted page for more information.
Information Wanted
We'd like some information on how other products export LDIF files, please head over to MailNews_Talk:Address_Book_Help_Wanted and add some information if you are able to.
Useful Information
General Links
LDAP Logging
We've now enabled an LDAP logging facility on trunk builds of SeaMonkey and Thunderbird. More information may be found at LDAP Logging.
LDAP Alpha Schema
Before Thunderbird 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0 we made some changes to the Address Book to allow more flexible attribute mapping. Additionally, the some of the default attributes changed, so we've put together an alpha version for the Mozilla Address Book schema find it here: LDAP Address Book Schema
Wish List
What do you want to see in address book? Many wishes/enhancements have been discussed previously.
Please let us use the discussion for what ideas we would like to see address book include in future.