ez-vcard

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.addPrefix("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 (see ez-vcard-android project).
• 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 (1.5 or above).
• Few dependencies on external libraries. Dependencies can be selectively excluded based on the functionality that is needed (see Dependencies).

News

March 21, 2015

Due to the impending shutdown of Google Code, ez-vcard has moved to Github! Please bear with me as I work out the kinks. :)

October 13, 2014

Downloads Version 0.9.6 released. This released fixes a few miscellaneous bugs. Please see the changelog for details.

August 17, 2014

Do you use ez-vcard with Android? The ez-vcard-android project makes it easier to use ez-vcard with Android!

July 26, 2014

Version 0.9.5 released. This released fixes a few miscellaneous bugs. Please see the changelog for details.

Old News

Maven

<dependency>
   <groupId>com.googlecode.ez-vcard</groupId>
   <artifactId>ez-vcard</artifactId>
   <version>0.9.6</version>
</dependency>

Questions / Feedback

Questions and feedback can be posted to the discussion forum. You can also email me directly: mike(dot)angstadt(at)gmail(dot)com

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

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)
Moritz Bechler (Geo URI bug fix)
Kiran Kumar Bhushan (quoted-printable bug)
Florian Brunner (OSGi metadata)
Pratyush Chandra (ez-vcard-android)
Juliane Dombrowski (quoted-printable line folding)
F. Gaffron (quoted-printable charsets)
knutolav (Issue 1, Issue 2)
David Nault (Issue 3, Issue 7)
Matt Siegel (base64 property value bug, unit test bug)
David Spieler (hCard template bug)
Tom Vogel (quoted-printable charsets)
Eike Weyl (Wiki fix)
沈健 (plain-text vCard formatting issue)

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