Feature wish: RawContacts read and write #766
Description
Feature description
Please consider adding the feature to allow:
- dumping the complete RawContacts table and its corresponding Data table;
- inserting and deleting lines into/from these tables.
Reference implementation
I have started my own app, to be called from Termux with am start -n $app, it is in very early stage, but it can already dump the RawContacts database:
public void log_all_raw_contacts() {
Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI,
null /* all columns TODO */,
null, null, null
);
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
String name = cursor.getString(0);
warn("raw_contact\n");
for (int i = 0; i < cursor.getColumnCount(); i++)
warn(" %s = \"%s\"\n", cursor.getColumnName(i), cursor.getString(i));
}
}
and an AI did for me the insertion, which happens to work:
public void add_contact_test() {
ContentResolver resolver = getContentResolver();
ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation> ops = new ArrayList<>();
// 1. Insert a new raw contact
ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newInsert(ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI)
.withValue(ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE, null)
.withValue(ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_NAME, null)
.build());
// 2. Insert the display name "Toto"
ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newInsert(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI)
.withValueBackReference(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, 0)
.withValue(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE)
.withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.StructuredName.DISPLAY_NAME, "Toto")
.build());
// 3. Insert the mobile phone number "42 17 19"
ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newInsert(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI)
.withValueBackReference(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, 0)
.withValue(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE)
.withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER, "42 17 19")
.withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.TYPE_MOBILE)
.build());
// Apply the batch
try {
resolver.applyBatch(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY, ops);
} catch (RemoteException | OperationApplicationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Thanks in advance.