Journal metadata - buddies as a string?

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please see: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4755#comment:5

Eben, I agree with your analysis. This is ugly-ish.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> Hi, this is totally expected, you are seeing a JSON serialization of a
> dict. Xapian is a fulltext search engine, so we put strings in and get
> strings back.

And I guess the actual problem is that Xapian is used to store rather
than just to search :-(

> Anyway, the storage of buddies in the journal is lacking in many
> aspects.

+1. Getting the proper ID info about buddies will unlock a lot of
things on the XS UIs too.

cheers,



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