Portable contacts api not giving contacts in alphabetical order

[abhay kumar]

Hi,

I am using this path to grab contacts from google after user is oauth2 authenticated.

path = "http://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/@me/@all/?count=500&fields=name,displayName,emails&sortBy=name"

Strangely the sortBy name is not working.

It gives:

1) First a list of unordered contacts with no order.

2) Then it gives contacts with name in alphabetical order.

I want all contact names sorted by alphabetical order.

What is the work around for this problem ?

A quick reply will be appreciated.

[Joseph Smarr]

Have you tried sortBy=displayName?

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[abhay kumar]

Yes I tried sortBy = displayName also.

Complete url: http://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/@me/@all/?count=500&fields=name,displayName,emails&sortBy=displayName

It's giving some random order.

looking at the data I guess it's giving default sort i.e. sort by relevency .

Thanks

Abhay

[Joseph Smarr]

Might just not be implemented, but according to the spec, it should at least respond with sorted: false (did it?). Lemme see what I can do...

[abhay kumar]

I analyzed the data i am receiving from google for this url:

http://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/@me/@all/?count=500&fields=name,displayName,emails&sortBy=name

Here are my observations:

1) There are a few emails which user do not define the name for, they are by default taken by Gmail as their username. Ex: jos...@gmail.com becomes jospeh.

2) During fetching of contacts with sortBy=name, this list comes first. Then it gives alphabetical order list. 

Let me know if it helps.

[Joseph Smarr]

Ah, I bet it thinks the name is empty-string so it sorts it to the top. I will investigate and file a bug, thanks for the report! :)

[abhay kumar]

Let me know when it's fixed!

Abhay
Senior Software Engineer
www.fab.com

On Dec 15, 12:57 pm, Joseph Smarr <jsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, I bet it thinks the name is empty-string so it sorts it to the top. I
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> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:59 PM, abhay kumar <abhay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I analyzed the data i am receiving from google for this url:
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