ContactsContract.StreamItems

This class was deprecated in API level 21.
- Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty.

Class Overview

Constants for the stream_items table, which contains social stream updates from the user's contact list.

Only a certain number of stream items will ever be stored under a given raw contact. Users of this API can query CONTENT_LIMIT_URI to determine this limit, and should restrict the number of items inserted in any given transaction correspondingly. Insertion of more items beyond the limit will automatically lead to deletion of the oldest items, by TIMESTAMP.

Access to the social stream through these URIs requires additional permissions beyond the read/write contact permissions required by the provider. Querying for social stream data requires android.permission.READ_SOCIAL_STREAM permission, and inserting or updating social stream items requires android.permission.WRITE_SOCIAL_STREAM permission.

Account check

The content URIs to the insert, update and delete operations are required to have the account information matching that of the owning raw contact as query parameters, namely ACCOUNT_TYPE and ACCOUNT_NAME. DATA_SET isn't required.

Operations

Insert

Social stream updates are always associated with a raw contact. There are a couple of ways to insert these entries.

Via the CONTENT_DIRECTORY sub-path of a raw contact:

 ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
 values.put(StreamItems.TEXT, "Breakfasted at Tiffanys");
 values.put(StreamItems.TIMESTAMP, timestamp);
 values.put(StreamItems.COMMENTS, "3 people reshared this");
 Uri.Builder builder = RawContacts.CONTENT_URI.buildUpon();
 ContentUris.appendId(builder, rawContactId);
 builder.appendEncodedPath(RawContacts.StreamItems.CONTENT_DIRECTORY);
 builder.appendQueryParameter(RawContacts.ACCOUNT_NAME, accountName);
 builder.appendQueryParameter(RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE, accountType);
 Uri streamItemUri = getContentResolver().insert(builder.build(), values);
 long streamItemId = ContentUris.parseId(streamItemUri);
 

Via CONTENT_URI:

 ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
 values.put(StreamItems.RAW_CONTACT_ID, rawContactId);
 values.put(StreamItems.TEXT, "Breakfasted at Tiffanys");
 values.put(StreamItems.TIMESTAMP, timestamp);
 values.put(StreamItems.COMMENTS, "3 people reshared this");
 Uri.Builder builder = StreamItems.CONTENT_URI.buildUpon();
 builder.appendQueryParameter(RawContacts.ACCOUNT_NAME, accountName);
 builder.appendQueryParameter(RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE, accountType);
 Uri streamItemUri = getContentResolver().insert(builder.build(), values);
 long streamItemId = ContentUris.parseId(streamItemUri);

Once a ContactsContract.Contacts.StreamItems entry has been inserted, photos associated with that social update can be inserted. For example, after one of the insertions above, photos could be added to the stream item in one of the following ways:

Via a URI including the stream item ID:

 values.clear();
 values.put(StreamItemPhotos.SORT_INDEX, 1);
 values.put(StreamItemPhotos.PHOTO, photoData);
 getContentResolver().insert(Uri.withAppendedPath(
     ContentUris.withAppendedId(StreamItems.CONTENT_URI, streamItemId),
     StreamItems.StreamItemPhotos.CONTENT_DIRECTORY), values);
 

Via CONTENT_PHOTO_URI:

 values.clear();
 values.put(StreamItemPhotos.STREAM_ITEM_ID, streamItemId);
 values.put(StreamItemPhotos.SORT_INDEX, 1);
 values.put(StreamItemPhotos.PHOTO, photoData);
 getContentResolver().insert(StreamItems.CONTENT_PHOTO_URI, values);
 

Note that this latter form allows the insertion of a stream item and its photos in a single transaction, by using ContentProviderOperation with back references to populate the stream item ID in the ContentValues.

Update

Updates can be performed by appending the stream item ID to the CONTENT_URI URI. Only social stream entries that were created by the calling package can be updated.

Delete

Deletes can be performed by appending the stream item ID to the CONTENT_URI URI. Only social stream entries that were created by the calling package can be deleted.

Query

Finding all social stream updates for a given contact

By Contact ID:

 Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(Uri.withAppendedPath(
          ContentUris.withAppendedId(Contacts.CONTENT_URI, contactId),
          Contacts.StreamItems.CONTENT_DIRECTORY),
          null, null, null, null);
 

By lookup key:

 Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(Contacts.CONTENT_URI.buildUpon()
          .appendPath(lookupKey)
          .appendPath(Contacts.StreamItems.CONTENT_DIRECTORY).build(),
          null, null, null, null);
 

Finding all social stream updates for a given raw contact

 Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(Uri.withAppendedPath(
          ContentUris.withAppendedId(RawContacts.CONTENT_URI, rawContactId),
          RawContacts.StreamItems.CONTENT_DIRECTORY)),
          null, null, null, null);
 

Querying for a specific stream item by ID

 Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(ContentUris.withAppendedId(
          StreamItems.CONTENT_URI, streamItemId),
          null, null, null, null);
 

Summary

[Expand] Inherited Constants
From interface android.provider.BaseColumns String _COUNT The count of rows in a directory. String _ID The unique ID for a row.
From interface android.provider.ContactsContract.StreamItemsColumns String ACCOUNT_NAME This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String ACCOUNT_TYPE This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String COMMENTS This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String CONTACT_ID This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String CONTACT_LOOKUP_KEY This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String DATA_SET This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String RAW_CONTACT_ID This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String RAW_CONTACT_SOURCE_ID This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String RES_ICON This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String RES_LABEL This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String RES_PACKAGE This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String SYNC1 This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String SYNC2 This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String SYNC3 This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String SYNC4 This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String TEXT This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty. String TIMESTAMP This constant was deprecated in API level 21. - Do not use. This will not be supported in the future. In the future, cursors returned from related queries will be empty.

[Expand] Inherited Methods

From class java.lang.Object Object clone() Creates and returns a copy of this Object. boolean equals(Object o) Compares this instance with the specified object and indicates if they are equal. void finalize() Invoked when the garbage collector has detected that this instance is no longer reachable. final Class<?> getClass() Returns the unique instance of Class that represents this object's class. int hashCode() Returns an integer hash code for this object. final void notify() Causes a thread which is waiting on this object's monitor (by means of calling one of the wait() methods) to be woken up. final void notifyAll() Causes all threads which are waiting on this object's monitor (by means of calling one of the wait() methods) to be woken up. String toString() Returns a string containing a concise, human-readable description of this object. final void wait() Causes the calling thread to wait until another thread calls the notify() or notifyAll() method of this object. final void wait(long millis, int nanos) Causes the calling thread to wait until another thread calls the notify() or notifyAll() method of this object or until the specified timeout expires. final void wait(long millis) Causes the calling thread to wait until another thread calls the notify() or notifyAll() method of this object or until the specified timeout expires.