Contacts

Contacts implement nsIAbCard. Formerly, contact properties were a simple list of keys and values, and some directory types still only support that, but most contacts are now based on the vCard format. In SQLiteDirectory, data is stored in vCard format with only the most commonly used properties also stored as keys and values for performance reasons.

Useful properties

• UID - Unique identifier for the contact.

• directoryUID - Unique identifier of the directory containing the contact.

• firstName/lastName/displayName - The name of the contact.

• primaryEmail - The first email address of the contact.

• emailAddresses - All email addresses of the contact, in preference order.

• properties - Access to the contact’s properties as keys and values.

• vCardProperties - A VCardProperties object allowing direct access to the items in the contact’s vCard.