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Re: Correct way to get a person in Address Book
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Re: Correct way to get a person in Address Book


  • Subject: Re: Correct way to get a person in Address Book
  • From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:45:26 -0800

On Nov 11, 2003, at 6:42 PM, Darwin Zins wrote:

ABPerson * macABEntry;
macABEntry = [_macAddressBook recordForUniqueId: abID ];
Compiling this gives me a warning "assignment from incompatible pointer
type" for the last line. The code actually works, but what is the
correct way to do this?

recordForUniqueId: is defined to return ABRecord -- it may be an ABPerson or an ABGroup. If you are *sure* the record returned will *always* be an ABPerson, then you could suppress the compiler warning with:

ABPerson * macABEntry;
macABEntry = (ABPerson *)[_macAddressBook recordForUniqueId: abID ];


[_macAddressBook retain];

It might be interesting to see the remainder of your code -- it's more likely than not that you don't need to retain the address book, or that there's a better approach...


Finally, searching with unique IDs is perhaps not the most obvious first step in using the AddressBook framework -- have you looked at creating ABSearchElements?

From <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Reference/ AddressBook/ObjC_classic/Classes/ABAddressBook.html>

- (NSArray *)recordsMatchingSearchElement:(ABSearchElement *)search
Returns an array of records that match the given search element, or returns an empty array if no records match the search element. [...]
See Also: + searchElementForProperty:label:key:value:comparison: (ABPerson) [...]


mmalc
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