1093105 - Contacts/mozContacts API should automatically lowercase email "equals" filterValue for consistency with how it is stored

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: DOM: Contacts, defect)

Description

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

In email bug 1087184 it was observed that if we store a contact with an email address like "[e-mail]", the search value used to populate the index gets lower-cased to be "[e-mail]".  However, a corresponding transformation is not made when using the find() API with the "equals" filterOp.  So if a call like:
   var req = contactsAPI.find({
     filterBy: ['email'],
     filterOp: 'equals',
     filterValue: '[e-mail]"
   });
is made, no result is found.  Right now the caller must manually lowercase filterValue to get a result.

Neither the documentation at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Contacts_API or https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ContactManager.find currently mention this.

I'm currently unclear on whether we've completely abandoned standardizing mozContacts in favor of DataStore/its successor or what so it's not clear to me if it's better to fix this (arguable) bug or leave it this way so we're consistent across all versions.  However, I'm going to update the find() doc page now to address this.

Comment 1

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

I think this is a real inconsistency we should fix. What do you think, Reuben?

Comment 2

[monperrus]

What is the rationale for WONTFIX?

Comment 3

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

The DOM Contacts API was a Firefox OS-only subsystem and no longer exists.  If you are looking for Thunderbird-related contacts bugs, there is no overlap with this deprecated bugzilla component.  All Thunderbird related bugs should be under the MailNews or Thunderbird products in bugzilla.