Iterating through contacts in ABAddressBookRef

Question

I'm trying to iterate through contacts (ABRecordRef's) in the address book(ABAddressBookRef). The app crashes when trying to copy kABPersonKindProperty property of the ref to check whether its a person contact or a company contact.

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, nil);
ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion(addressBook, ^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error) {
    if (granted) {
        ABRecordRef source = ABAddressBookCopyDefaultSource(addressBook);
        CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeopleInSourceWithSortOrdering(addressBook, source, kABPersonSortByFirstName);
        CFIndex nPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook);

        NSMutableArray *contactsArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
        NSMutableArray *companyArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

        for( int i = 0 ; i < nPeople ; i++ ) {
            ABRecordRef ref = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allPeople, i);
            if (ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonKindProperty) == kABPersonKindPerson) { // The app crashes on this line.
                MNContact *contact = [[MNContact alloc] initWithRecordReference:ref];
                [contactsArray addObject:contact];
            } else if (ABRecordCopyValue(ref, kABPersonKindProperty) == kABPersonKindOrganization) {
                MNCompany *company = [[MNCompany alloc] initWithRecordReference:ref];
                [companyArray addObject:company];
            }
        }

        self.hasLoadedContactsFromDevice = YES;
        _personContacts = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:contactsArray copyItems:YES];
        //            _companyContacts = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:companyArray copyItems:YES];
    } else {
        _personContacts = nil;
        _companyContacts= nil;
        self.hasLoadedContactsFromDevice = NO;
    }
    dispatch_semaphore_signal(self.sema);
});
dispatch_semaphore_wait(self.sema, DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER);

If I print ref this is what I get

{
kCGImageSourceUseHardwareAcceleration = 1;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_alphaInfo" = 5;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_bitsPerComponent" = 8;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_bitsPerPixel" = 32;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_cacheImageBlocks" = 0;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_colorspaceModel" = 1;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_imageHeight" = 96;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_imageHeightOriginal" = 96;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_imageIndex" = 0;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_imageWidth" = 96;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_imageWidthOriginal" = 96;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_isLittleEndian" = 0;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_plugin" = "<CGImagePlus 0x165846f0>{w=96 h=96 prov=0x0 props=0x16584110 metadata=0x16584760}";
"kImageIOInfoHeader_pluginHandlesReMapping" = 1;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_rowBytes" = 384;
"kImageIOInfoHeader_session" = "<CGImageReadSessionRef 0x165844f0>{offset=3453 readref=0x165841f0}";
"kImageIOInfoHeader_supportsMultipleResolutions" = 1;
}

So my idea was to do a routine check whether the ref is an instance of class ABRecordRef.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Any suggestions are welcome.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '14 at 11:48

The problem was with

ABRecordRef source = ABAddressBookCopyDefaultSource(addressBook);
CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeopleInSourceWithSortOrdering(addressBook, source, kABPersonSortByFirstName);
CFIndex nPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook);

Somehow the count of allPeople doesn't have the same number of elements (!= nPeople). Don't know why? But when I changed it to the following, everything worked fine.

CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
CFIndex nPeople = CFArrayGetCount(allPeople);

Iterating through contacts in ABAddressBookRef

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