Tickets :: Comment on [#14361] Updating contacts on iOS9.3.1 does not transfer the contact picture to the server

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Comment	> It looks like iOS broke picture handling (again). It was broken > around 6.1, fixed around 8.1, and looks like it's broken again. Here > is a snippet of the contact data sent from the iOS client to the > server: > > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I <Modify> > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I <ServerEntryId> > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I [55 bytes of content] > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I </ServerEntryId> > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I <Data> > > <snip> > > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I <POOMCONTACTS:LastName> > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I testenson > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I </POOMCONTACTS:LastName> > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I <POOMCONTACTS:Picture /> > 2016-05-10T15:41:16+02:00 DEBUG: [6597] I </Data> > > Note the <POOMCONTACTS:Picture /> line. That's an empty tag element, > meaning it has no content. The client is telling the server that > there is no picture data associated with this contact. > > This is really bad, considering that it is also not sending any > SUPPORTED properties - meaning that most likely your contact images > will be wiped with ANY edit of the contact on the client. > > The way to signify a property is removed varies depending on a few > things such as if the client is sending SUPPORTED data that indicates > what properties should be "ghosted" or not and if the Picture element > is listed in that SUPPORTED data or not. > > Since different versions of iOS do different combinations of these > things (both correctly and incorrectly), it really isn't feasible to > implement a workaround since this could make it impossible to delete > a contact picture if desired, while the client would believe it WAS > deleted. > > On the other hand, since this leads to data loss on the server, it > might be worth this inconvenience. I'll have to test some things out > to see what we can do.
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