Persona

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

public abstract class Persona : Object

Represents a "shard" of a person from a single source (a single Backend), such as an XMPP contact from Telepathy or a vCard contact from evolution-data-server.

All the personas belonging to one physical person are aggregated to form a single Individual representing that person.

Namespace: Folks

Package: folks

Content:

Properties:

public string iid { construct set; get; }
The internal ID used to represent the Persona for linking.
public string uid { construct set; get; }
The universal ID used to represent the Persona outside its Backend.
public string display_id { construct set; get; }
The human-readable, service-specific universal ID used to represent the Persona.
public bool is_user { construct set; get; }
Whether the Persona is the user.
public weak PersonaStore store { construct set; get; }
The PersonaStore which contains this Persona.
public weak Individual? individual { set; get; }
The Individual which contains this Persona.
public abstract string[] linkable_properties { get; }
The names of the properties of this Persona which are linkable.
public abstract string[] writeable_properties { get; }
The names of the properties of this Persona which are writeable.

Delegates:

public delegate void LinkablePropertyCallback (string link)
Callback into the aggregator to manipulate a link mapping.

Static methods:

public static string build_uid (string backend_name, string persona_store_id, string persona_id)
Build a UID from the given components.
public static void split_uid (string uid, out string backend_name, out string persona_store_id, out string persona_id)
Split a UID into its component parts.

Creation methods:

public Persona ()

Methods:

public virtual void linkable_property_to_links (string prop_name, LinkablePropertyCallback callback)
Produce one or more mapping strings for the given property's value.