Search for Contacts / Custom contact properties

[bae00000111]

Hello

I need to accomplish hthe following two task, and I'd like to know if they are possible to do with the Jabber Web SDK:

a) Search for contacts by their name or part of it. It should be possible to enter "mil" and get a list of all contacts whose name starts with "mil".

b) Get the phone number of a Jabber contact. The Jabber users in my sandbox CUP server have only very basic properties like 'Department" and "Manager". Is it possible to store additional information such as a phone number for a Jabber contact?

thanks & best regards

Simon

[jocreed]

Let me look into your questions and see what I can find out.

[npetrele]

a) CAXL (the Jabber web SDK) doesn't have a "search for contact by partial name" method, but that should be easy to do in Javascript.  Here's one way of doing it:

var searchstring = "joe";

client.entitySet.each(function(entity) {

     if (entity instanceof jabberwerx.RosterContact) {

          var displayName = entity.getDisplayName();

          if (displayName.indexOf(searchstring) > -1) {

               alert("Found " + searchstring);

          }

     }

}

b) I'm working on that very thing now, so I don't have an answer yet.  It must be possible, but the method to do it with CAXL isn't well documented (read: isn't documented at all as far as I can tell). 

[jocreed]

Hey it looks like Nick beat me to it, but Nick is the guy to talk to if you want to use the Jabber SDK for sure.

[npetrele]

Sorry, I still haven't figured out how to fetch a vcard or profile with CAXL.  It should be possible doing something like this (this is not even close to working code - it's just a framework that needs working parameters):

// Function to handle response when it's received

var getProfile = function(responseXml) {

     var iq = jabberwerx.Stanza.createWithNode(responseXml);

     if (iq.isError()) {

          console.log("IQ Error");

          var iqError = iq.getErrorInfo();

          console.log("IQ Error " + iqError.type + " " + iqError.text);

     } else {

          console.log("IQ Success");

          console.log(iq);

// extract the info you want

     }

};

// replace the xmlContent with a search that works -- this doesn't

// I've tried it with various searches, including vcard-temp, which

// works with google contacts, but not CIMP or webex connect

// <vCard xmlns='vcard-temp'/> is the one I tried

var xmlContent = "<query xmlns='jabber:iq:search'/>";

client.entitySet.each(function(entity) {

     if (entity instanceof jabberwerx.RosterContact) {

          client.sendIq("get", entity.jid.getBareJID(), xmlContent, getProfile);

     }

});

If you can do something with this, let me know.  In the meantime, I'll keep experimenting and ask the engineers for help.