On Sun, Oct 02 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Fri Sep 30 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> 1. If there's no value for a field, you get a nice ugly "nil". Ideally >> we'd have conditional insertion of strings depending on whether or >> not there's a value for a given field, but that means we can't use >> `format' anymore, and suddenly this whole thing gets a *lot* more >> complicated than a Friday afternoon project. > > This reminds me of BBDB address via bbdb-address-format-list. > One needs to keep track of everything... > >> 2. There's no obvious way of indicating which value of a multi-valued >> field you want. `bbdb-record-get-field' only gets us so far, as it's >> indiscriminate about fields with string values, list values and >> struct values. > > Currently I am trying to make bbdb-record-get-field a bit more > flexible as this had also popped up here in some other context. I > want to install my patch in the near future. Yet this might not > solve all your problems. (See my comments on string labels below.)
Can you drop any hints about how it will change? Extra arguments? >> With a little work it would be possible to access subvalues by >> constructing complex field names: for instance, address-home >> (to get the address field labelled "home") > > Note that "home" may appear multiple times (i.e., the string labels > used for addresses and phone numbers) > >> I've seen people mess with symbol names like this before, and >> could probably figure it out. > > The keys of note fields (which are symbols) are intended to be > unique for each record. Just to confirm: address and phone fields can have multiple identical string keys, but note-type fields can't, is that right? I'm not sure an exporter needs options that fine-grained. I'm inclined to produce either the first field with a given key, or else all the fields with a given key. Anyway, if bbdb-record-get-field is under construction, I'll put some thought into conditional strings first. E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
