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AddressBook and CoreData


  • Subject: AddressBook and CoreData
  • From: Alexander Lamb <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:01:57 +0200

Hello,

As I understood the AddressBook API, the unique ID of a ABRecord is globally unique.

Now, if I have a CoreData application which stores people for which I am creating an AddressBook entry, I suppose it is a good practice to only keep the unique ID of the ABRecord in a field of my CoreData people record.

That being said, this CoreData application might be shared by several users (the "how" is covered in my previous post). Obviously, if I create a person in my app and in AddressBook from user A, when user B opens the database, the person doesn't exist in HIS AddressBook. At that point, is it "correct" to simply add the person to user B's AddressBook?

If the answer is yes, I have a problem: how do I set the same unique ID for the ABRecord?? If I don't, I will end up with several unique IDs for the same person in my CoreData record.

If I don't store the unique ID of the person in my CoreData application, I need to generate my own custom attribute in AddressBook to represent the "cross users globally unique ID". Not very elegant!

I would like to hear feedbacks of experience mixing AddressBook and CoreData applications!

Thanks,

Alex
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