Creating a new contact on iPhone works, searching for it does not

[fortiko]

Creating a new contact on an iPhone via PHP-Push works just fine, as can be seen from the log output below. Only problem: some fields (address, ...) are not missing, and therefore missing after creation even though the user entered them! I will file an additional issue for that.

HOWEVER, that contact is not visible/searchable via the Exchange group in contacts after creating it.

Surprisingly, the contact IS visible in the underlying LDAP directory (that I configured as an independent account)...

04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::New Record:: dn will be uid=1333554315890912,cn=[email protected],ou=private,ou=rcabook,dc=domain,dc=tld
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Attribute set for: o
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Attribute set for: mail
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Attribute set for: homePhone
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Attribute set for: givenName
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Attribute set for: sn
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Attribute set for: mobile
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Attribute set for: labeledURI
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Attribute set for: cn
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Array Dump:
Array(
[o] => Company
[mail] => [email protected]
[homePhone] => 5678
[givenName] => First
[sn] => Last
[mobile] => 1234
[labeledURI] => home.com
[cn] => Last, First
[objectClass] => Array
(
[0] => inetOrgPerson
)
)
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::Record sucessfully added. LDAP said: Success
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts:: Got 1 match for new record
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::entryUUID eaa4fc22-12b8-1031-8bd9-7917677c3178
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts:: New id is eaa4fc22-12b8-1031-8bd9-7917677c3178
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::StatMessage(root, eaa4fc22-12b8-1031-8bd9-7917677c3178)
04/04/12 17:45:15 [21937] [[email protected]] LdapContacts::GetMessageEntry(root, eaa4fc22-12b8-1031-8bd9-7917677c3178)

An idea for improving the code:

replace in backend/ldap_contacts.php

        # No matching record so we need to create it...
        # First we need a new dn value. Methodology respectfully pinched from Contagged Project.
        # Only problem with this is that it can lead to duplicates as 'time' is only seconds.
        $new_uid = time() .str_pad(mt_rand(0,999999),6,"0", STR_PAD_LEFT);

with a SHA512 hash, with time() as the salt? It is very unlikely that two exact same contacts will be created within the same second ;-)