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AddressBook: Why can't I add a person, that is not (yet) in the AB, to a group?
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AddressBook: Why can't I add a person, that is not (yet) in the AB, to a group?


  • Subject: AddressBook: Why can't I add a person, that is not (yet) in the AB, to a group?
  • From: Alexandre Aybes <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:08:59 +0100

Hi there,

I am writing a little application that needs to serialize and deserialize address book entries to send over a socket connection, it works fine with ABPerson objects, but when I get to the ABGroup I have one problem:
When I deserialize the group, I need to recreate the persons that were embedded in the group unfortunately it seems that addMember silently fails when the person is not in the addressBook already, it does NOT return NO, and does not throw an exception, but it logs in the console: "Could not find person in group"
Here are 2 code snipets that reproduce the issue:

Works:
ABGroup* rootGroup = [[[ABGroup alloc] init] autorelease];
ABPerson* person = nil;

[rootGroup setValue:@"Test Root Group" forProperty:kABGroupNameProperty];

person = [self createTestPerson];
[[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] addRecord:person];
NSLog(@"Person: %@", person);
[self assertTrue:[rootGroup addMember:person] message:@"Could not add member"];


Does NOT work:
ABGroup* rootGroup = [[[ABGroup alloc] init] autorelease];
ABPerson* person = nil;

[rootGroup setValue:@"Test Root Group" forProperty:kABGroupNameProperty];

person = [self createTestPerson];
NSLog(@"Person: %@", person);
[self assertTrue:[rootGroup addMember:person] message:@"Could not add member"];

The only difference between the 2 snipets is that in one case I actually add the person to the shared address book before adding it to the group.

Is this an expected behavior or a bug? The fact that it does not return NO seems strange to me anyhow. If this is not an expected behavior, I will file a bug against it.

Thanks a lot,
Alex.

PS: I am running Mac OS X 10.2.2 and have not tried this on any other version of OS X.
PPS: the code is not complete but illustrates the problem, and yes it is part of a unit test for my application, and no, the assertion around the addMember never fails, even though the person is not added to the group.

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