Add support for contacts

[jamietanna]

As mentioned in Platform-Aware @-mentioning People on my Blog I found that setting up the q=contact Micropub query like so:

{
  "contacts": [
    {
      "name": "Barry Frost",
      "nickname": "barryfrost.com",
      "url": "https://barryfrost.com/",
      "silos": {
        "twitter": "BarryF"
      },
      "_internal_url": "https://www.jvt.me/contacts/barryfrost.com/"
    }
  ]
}

Makes it handy to perform different syndication, as well as having autocomplete of people in i.e. Indigenous for Android.

[barryf]

I like this concept and find myself needing it from time to time.

How do you manage your list, @jamietanna? Do you manually edit a file?

[jamietanna]

Right now, it's a set of JSON files (ignore the .md suffix) in my site, one per contact (link), with contents i.e.:

{
  "client_id": "https://www-editor.jvt.me",
  "deleted": false,
  "draft": false,
  "h": "h-card",
  "kind": "contacts",
  "properties": {
    "name": [
      "Barry Frost"
    ],
    "nickname": [
      "barryfrost.com"
    ],
    "rel=twitter": [
      "BarryF"
    ],
    "url": [
      "https://barryfrost.com/"
    ]
  }
}

I would see this as a fresh table in Dynamo, and then persist it to the content repo, as with the existing content types

[barryf]

👍

In indieweb/micropub-extensions#39 there are examples using an optional filter. It might be nice to also support that.

Separate idea: get Micropublish to support creating contacts to simplify managing your contacts list.

[barryf]

What do you use the _internal_url value for in your current server?

[jamietanna]

As per the linked issue, it's allowed for editing - I believe Indigenous for Android performs modification using that URL.

It can also be used for basic Micropub Update i.e. https://micropublish.net/edit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jvt.me%2Fcontacts%2Fbarryfrost.com%2F&edit=

[barryf]

WIP draft PR #21. Thanks - understood re: _internal_url. I'll add that.