I understand that ABAddressBook methods are concerned with ABPerson and ABGroup
entities, subclasses of ABRecord.
However, the ABMultiValue collections are less intuitive. Among these are
stored the (potentially) multiple instances of addresses, phone numbers and
email addresses. For each instance of user supplied data, a multiValue object
can store - in properties keyed with kABXxxx keys - arbitrary labels: home,
work, iPhone, mobile, etc. The documentation leaves much to be desired, but
in particular, I cannot glean how to retrieve a user-supplied string from a
given multiValue object.
Some code:
Given some address, stored in an ABMultiValue object, such that:
- (void) unwrapMV:(ABMultiValue*)mv atIndex:(int)index {
NSString * _uuid = [mv identifierAtIndex:index];
NSString * _label = [mv labelForIdentifier:[mv
identifierAtIndex:index]];
NSDictionary * _dict = [mv valueAtIndex:index];
// am I the identified primary entry?
BOOL _primary = ([mv primaryIdentifier] == self.uuid)?
YES: NO;
NSLog( @"%@", _label) ;
}
produces _$!<Home>!$_,
or one of the other variants of the actual value of the key, not the value it
refers to.
Clearly I am failing to understand where these strings are being stored.
Erik Stainsby
erik.stain...@roaringsky.ca
On 2012-09-13, at 9:04 PM, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> On 2012 Sep 13, at 19:45, Erik Stainsby <erik.stain...@roaringsky.ca> wrote:
>
>> So the AddressBook framework's xxxLabel keys render out as strings encoded
>> like so: _$!<Home>!$_, _$!<Work>!$_, _$!<Mobile>!$_ Is there framework
>> method I am meant to use with the property keys kABHomeLabel, kABWorkLabel,
>> etc, to render a legible text outcome
>
> Maybe you're looking for -[ABRecord valueForProperty:]. Note that
> ABAddressBook methods typically return ABPerson objects, and ABPerson
> inherits from ABRecord.
>
> If that doesn't explain it, post some code.
>
>
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