Hi all I've been fighting now with the AdressBook API for a while and found a disturbing problem. Maybe someone can help.
I'm trying to use the AddressBook as my main person "database" in my
application. I've create a small function that accepts drag - drops from the
Address book to add a new person in my app. So far so good.
I'm trying after to show in my application details about that linked person and
that's where everything falls down.
On drop, I read the vCard created by the AddressBook using this line:
ABPerson* aPerson = [[ABPerson alloc] initWithVCardRepresentation:filedata];
When doing this, the UID of my person gets re-generated. I wanted to use the
UID as my reference to my original address book record and dig the information
using it. But since its re-generated upon read of the vCard, no luck. So the
call:
ABAddressBook* addressBook = [ABAddressBook addressBook];
ABRecord* abRecord = [addressBook recordForUniqueId:personId];
always return null.
But, if I use the sharedAddressBook instead, my UIDs still get re-generated but
this guy (the sharedAddressBook) can find the records but only in the same
execution of the application. Upon restart, same old no-match problem.
There must be something i REALLY don't understand about the AB but can't find
anything more, out of ideas.
Anybody knows what's going on? Any way we can prevent my vCard initialization
from re-genrating the UID? If not, then what would be the correct way to refer
to AB records from another application? Running a search based on names sounds
bad compared to using direct pointers to records, the UID.
Thank you !
Eric.
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