Request for developer feedback: contacts data-module

tl:dr: There is a new library to manage address books & contacts in Solid Pods. Please try it and give feedback.

Hi all,

as part of the solid-data-modules initiative I have built a library that is meant to make it easier for developers to handle address books and contacts in Solid Pods.

• find address books in a Pod
• create and read address books
• create, read and update contacts
• organize contacts into groups
• …

You can do all this through a simple interface, without having to struggle with the details of the (yet to be) contacts client-to-client specification.

The library is interoperable with the address books from SolidOS.

What you can do with the library

• Build your own solid contacts manager app
• Easily integrate contacts to whatever app your are building, while focussing on the actual domain of your app

Quick start

The library currently comes in the “flavor” of rdflib, but you do not need to know anything about rdflib to use it.

npm install @solid-data-modules/contacts-rdflib rdflib

import {Fetcher, graph, UpdateManager} from "rdflib";
import ContactsModuleRdfLib, { ContactsModule } from "@solid-data-module/contacts-rdflib";

// 1️⃣ create rdflib store, fetcher and updater as usual
const store = graph();
const fetcher = new Fetcher(
        store,
        // 💡 pass an authenticated fetch
        // to be able to access private resources*
        /* fetch: authenticatedFetch */
);
const updater = new UpdateManager(store);

// 2️⃣ create the contacts module
const module: ContactsModule = new ContactsModuleRdfLib({store, fetcher, updater});

// 3️⃣ use the module to interact with address books and contacts
const uri = await contacts.createAddressBook({
  container: "https://pod.example/alice/",
  name: "new address book"
})

const contactUri = await contacts.createNewContact({
  addressBookUri: uri,
  contact: {
      name: "Maurice Moss",
      email: "maurice.moss@reynholm-industries.example",
      phone: "0118-999-881-99-9119-725-3"
  },
});

const addressBook = await contacts.readAddressBook(uri)
console.log(addressBook)

Request for Feedback

Any feedback is very welcome, even if you do not plan to use the library:

• What features are you missing?
• What is confusing?
• What is valuable?
• What needs to be added for your use cases?
• …

Links

• npm: @solid-data-modules/contacts-rdflib - npm
• source: data-modules/contacts at main · solid-contrib/data-modules · GitHub
• API docs: ContactsModule | @solid-data-modules/contacts-rdflib

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