Introduction Thunderbird stores addresses using 6 fields: 2 lines for the address, the city, the state, the zip code, and the country. Google stores addresses in one field (supports multiple lines). Since these two differ so greatly, it is difficult to synchronize addresses properly. Possible Solution(s): Splitting the address with Read more…
I wanted to test some Unicode characters to see if they would sync properly. So, I made up an e-mail address: üḯǟôÕ@host.com. The e-mail address synced without any error messages, but when I tried to edit the contact in Gmail I was given the following error: “Please enter a valid Read more…
L10n (Localization) Support I finished adding support for localization to the extension. It previously used l10n for the XUL files, but I just finished localizing strings in the scripts. If you or somebody you know would like to help translate this extension please let me know. Contact Conversion Rewrite I Read more…
I have been writing unit tests for importing address books and finally performed my first tests of verifying the imported data. It turns out that LDIF doesn’t import mozillahomestreet (Home Address line 1) even though it worked with mozillahomestreet2. So I filed Bug 439819. The problem was in mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbLDIFService.cpp. For Read more…
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Name of the extension I haven’t figured out a name for the extension yet. I initially named it gcontacts, but that name already exists for several programs. gcontactsync is a potential name. Any suggestions are welcome. SAXParseException While syncing some newly-created cards, I encountered the following error: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity Read more…
A while ago I mentioned that I accidentally crashed Thunderbird while figuring out how to import an Address Book because I forgot to set the fieldMap before I called BeginImport. So, I filed Bug 437556: Mailnews crashes while importing an address book if a field map is required but not Read more…
I finally wrote a bug report for a bug in mailnews relating to importing Address Books. I was trying to figure out how to import an address book through javascript when I crashed Thunderbird. I later found out that I forgot to set the field map. More info on the Read more…
I have been busy recently, but I did manage to remove all the custom helper methods from the script that works with Google Contacts and just use one generic method instead. I also sped up the sync process by removing the need for one of the for loops I had Read more…
Well, I finally finished adding offline support, so it will should work well offline. It just sets text in the status bar to let the user know the sync cannot be completed while offline. Once the user is back online it works like normal. Any changes made while offline are Read more…