Short Code support?

[mrtnsu]

Short codes are "special" telephone numbers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_code

Is it possible to use libphonenumber to:

* parse and validate short codes (given a phone number string and region code)?

* distinguish a phone number type as either 'longcode' or 'shortcode'?

I see there is a ShortNumberUtil class:

https://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/source/browse/trunk/java/libphonenumber/src/com/google/i18n/phonenumbers/ShortNumberUtil.java

but it appears to only deal with Emergency numbers.

It has a class comment: "Note most commercial short numbers are not handled here, but by the PhoneNumberUtil.".

However, PhoneNumberType does not define a type for "Emergency" (this is expected), nor "ShortCode" (this is unexpected, based on the comment above).

In PhoneNumberMetaData.xml, I see that there is actually metadata for shortcodes defined for a lot of regions, in the "territory/shortCode" node.

In PhoneMetadata, I don't see a property for ShortCode (but there is one, for example, for Emergency, HasEmergency).

Other than this, I'm not aware of any other code that deals with shortcodes.

Currently, when I use PhoneNumberUtil on a phone number that is a shotcode, I get the following results:

Parse(65565, GB): PhoneNumber: {

ToString: PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber,

CountryCode: 44,

CountryCodeSource: FROM_NUMBER_WITH_PLUS_SIGN,

HasExtension: False,

Extension: ,

HasCountryCode: True,

HasCountryCodeSource: False,

HasItalianLeadingZero: False,

ItalianLeadingZero: False,

HasNationalNumber: True,

NationalNumber: 65565,

HasPreferredDomesticCarrierCode: False,

PreferredDomesticCarrierCode: ,

HasRawInput: False,

IsInitialized: True,

RawInput: 

}

CanBeInternationallyDialled(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): True,

Format(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, E164): +4465565,

Format(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, INTERNATIONAL): +44 65565,

Format(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, NATIONAL): 65565,

Format(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, RFC3966): tel:+44-65565,

FormatInOriginalFormat(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, GB): 65565,

FormatNationalNumberWithCarrierCode(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, ): 65565,

FormatNationalNumberWithPreferredCarrierCode(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, ): 65565,

FormatNumberForMobileDialing(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, GB, True): +44 65565,

FormatNumberForMobileDialing(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, GB, False): +4465565,

FormatOutOfCountryCallingNumber(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, GB): 65565,

FormatOutOfCountryKeepingAlphaChars(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber, GB): 65565,

GetLengthOfGeographicalAreaCode(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): 0,

GetLengthOfNationalDestinationCode(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): 0,

GetNationalSignificantNumber(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): 65565,

GetNumberType(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): UNKNOWN,

GetRegionCodeForNumber(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): ,

IsPossibleNumber(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): True,

IsPossibleNumberWithReason(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): IS_POSSIBLE,

IsValidNumber(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): False,

IsValidNumberForRegion(PhoneNumbers.PhoneNumber): False

Thanks in advance for any input.

Cheers, Martin

[mrtnsu]

Some additional info from the release notes:

October 19th, 2011: libphonenumber-4.1

- Add ShortNumberUtil to deal with international short phone numbers, such as short codes and

   emergency numbers.

Jan 20th, 2011

 Metadata changes:

  - New types of numbers introduced: UAN (universal or "company" numbers) and short codes. Note that

    "generalDesc" patterns do not encompass short-codes.  No code-support for these has been

    introduced as of yet. We are also now enabling the collection of data for information such as

    area-code-optional, and no-international-dialling ranges.

The "no code-support" comment on the latter seems to affirm the absence of any short code related code/functionality. Can someone confirm?

[Shaopeng]

Hello Martin,

It is our plan to build utilities to parse, validate, and type short codes once we have a reasonable collection of short code metadata. We hope to start that work some time next quarter.

Cheers,

Shaopeng

2013/3/20 mrtnsu <m...@mrtn.ca>

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[Liviu]

Hi,

Has something been developed towards support short codes?

Thanks,

Liviu

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[Andrew Lipman]

Hi,

Yes we do fully support short codes, we do so however in a separate API.  For short codes you can use our ShortNumberInfo class, https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber/blob/master/java/libphonenumber/src/com/google/i18n/phonenumbers/ShortNumberInfo.java.