Why am I unable to update the email address in android?

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    ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation> ops = new ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation>();
    ops.clear();

    ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newUpdate(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI)
            .withSelection(Data._ID + "=?", new String[]{String.valueOf(id)})
            .withValue(Email.DATA, "somebody1@android.com")
            .build());

    try 
    {
        context.getContentResolver().applyBatch(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY, ops);
    }

The logs don't show me anything. But the email is not updated. Does anyone know why?

The ops converted to string is as follows:

[mType: 2, mUri: content://com.android.contacts/data, mSelection: _id=?, mExpectedCount: null, mYieldAllowed: false, mValues: data1=somebody1@android.com, mValuesBackReferences: null, mSelectionArgsBackReferences: null]

have you tried using Log.d('tag',VALUEasSTRING); to check your values? — daniel, Dec 15 '12 at 02:25
actually all the values, but sounds like you already tried this — daniel, Dec 15 '12 at 02:29
I'm having this issue too. No matter what I do, it doesn't seem to update. My `ContentProviderOperation` looks exactly the same. — Jonah, Jan 30 '14 at 05:26
Where is id coming from ? My guess is it could be something else like a raw contact ID, meaning that the selection would be empty and thus no update would be performed. @Jonah — desseim, Feb 04 '14 at 19:43
@desseim I didn't see your comment before. I'm getting it from `Entity.DATA_ID` when querying in the first place. I've started my own question. http://stackoverflow.com/q/21594024/278899 — Jonah, Feb 06 '14 at 04:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '14 at 15:05

First, you have a try without a catch, which may explain why you don't see any error in the logs.

Second, from what I can see in the documentation, I think you should better write it this way:

ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation> ops = new ArrayList<ContentProviderOperation>();
ops.clear();

ops.add(ContentProviderOperation.newUpdate(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI)
        .withSelection(ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + "=?", 
                       new String[] {String.valueOf(id)})
        .withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA, "somebody1@android.com")
        .build());

try {
    context.getContentResolver().applyBatch(ContactsContract.AUTHORITY, ops);
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 05 '14 at 14:26

-1

Try use inside withValue not string, but array of strings.

.withValue(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA, emails)

where

String[] emails = {"Email Name<somebody1@android.com>"};

answered Feb 05 '14 at 14:26

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