mangstadt/ez-vcard

A vCard parser library for Java

ez-vcard

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ez-vcard is a vCard library written in Java. It can read and write vCards in many different formats. The "ez" stands for "easy" because the goal is to create a library that's easy to use.

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String str =
"BEGIN:VCARD\r\n" +
"VERSION:4.0\r\n" +
"N:Doe;Jonathan;;Mr;\r\n" +
"FN:John Doe\r\n" +
"END:VCARD\r\n";

VCard vcard = Ezvcard.parse(str).first();
String fullName = vcard.getFormattedName().getValue();
String lastName = vcard.getStructuredName().getFamily();

VCard vcard = new VCard();

StructuredName n = new StructuredName();
n.setFamily("Doe");
n.setGiven("Jonathan");
n.getPrefixes().add("Mr");
vcard.setStructuredName(n);

vcard.setFormattedName("John Doe");

String str = Ezvcard.write(vcard).version(VCardVersion.V4_0).go();

Features

• Simple, intuitive API (see Examples).
• Android compatibility.
• Full compliance with 2.1, 3.0, and 4.0 specifications (see Supported Specifications).
• Supports XML, HTML, and JSON encoded vCards (see Supported Specifications).
• Extensive unit test coverage.
• Low Java version requirement (1.8 or above).
• Few dependencies on external libraries. Dependencies can be selectively excluded based on the functionality that is needed (see Dependencies).

News

August 27, 2023

Version 0.12.1 released. This release includes a few bug fixes. Please see the changelog for details.

February 4, 2023

Version 0.12.0 released. This release updates to Java 1.8 and a few other things. Please see the changelog for details.

September 11, 2021

Version 0.11.3 released. This release fixes several issues, including a security vulnerability. Please see the changelog for details.

Old News

Maven/Gradle

Maven

<dependency>
   <groupId>com.googlecode.ez-vcard</groupId>
   <artifactId>ez-vcard</artifactId>
   <version>0.12.1</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

compile 'com.googlecode.ez-vcard:ez-vcard:0.12.1'

Build Instructions

ez-vcard uses Maven as its build tool, and adheres to its conventions.

To build the project: mvn compile
To run the unit tests: mvn test
To build a JAR: mvn package

Eclipse users: Due to a quirk in the build process, before running the eclipse:eclipse goal, you must tweak some of the <resource> definitions in the POM file. See the comments in the POM file for details.

Questions / Feedback

You have some options:

• Issue tracker
• Gitter chat room
• Post a question to StackOverflow with vcard as a tag.
• Email me directly: [email protected]

Please submit bug reports and feature requests to the issue tracker. Contributors are listed in the project credits.

Java 6 branch

For those who can't use Java 8 (i.e. older Android APIs), there exists a parallel, Java 6 branch. This branch receives the same bug fixes that the main branch receives.

https://github.com/mangstadt/ez-vcard/tree/j6

Android

The ez-vcard-android project interfaces between ez-vcard and the native Android APIs. Note, however, that it is not being actively maintained.

Node.js

A Node.js wrapper for ez-vcard can be found here: https://github.com/Maxim-Mazurok/ez-vcard

Credits

Lead Developer
Michael Angstadt

Documentation
Michael Angstadt

Architecture Ideas
George El-Haddad (CardMe Project)

Maven Central Reviewer
Joel Orlina

Project Hosting
Github
Google Code

Contributors
amarnathr (hCard template bug)
bgorven (jackson-databind integration, jackson pretty printing, round-trip testing)
Moritz Bechler (Geo URI bug fix)
Kiran Kumar Bhushan (quoted-printable bug)
Sean Boylan (XXE vulnerability)
Florian Brunner (OSGi metadata)
Pratyush Chandra (ez-vcard-android)
Lívio Cipriano (Issue 35)
cmargenau (XML 1.1 support)
DerBlade (missing parameter method)
Ed Developer (wiki fix)
Juliane Dombrowski (quoted-printable line folding)
F. Gaffron (quoted-printable charsets)
Edward Hetherington (plain text KEY issue)
isindir (Javadoc fix)
knutolav (Issue 1, Issue 2)
Nico Lehmann (Windows 10 Contacts compatibility issue)
Alexander Myltsev (Issue with folding quoted printable values)
David Nault (Issue 3, Issue 7)
NeverWise (chaining parser & custom scribes issue)
rfc2822 (folding line issue, IMPP issue, trailing semicolons issue, non-Western digits)
Steven Ruppert (folding surrogate character pairs, parsing tel URIs)
Melchin Sapir (README suggestion)
Matt Siegel (base64 property value bug, unit test bug)
David Spieler (hCard template bug)
stonio (unit test fix, readme fix)
Tom Vogel (quoted-printable charsets)
Eike Weyl (Wiki fix, Javadoc fix)
沈健 (plain-text vCard formatting issue)

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