Question

I’m having a really strange problem where I am trying to find a contact’s address in iOS 6, and unless the contact has an address labelled “Address”, I can’t find it. Any addresses entered under “Work” or “Home” just don’t appear.

In order to try to figure out this problem, is it possible to take a person record from contacts and just dump every value stored? I’m hoping this will help me find where those “Home” and “Work” addresses are living.

Here’s my code so far:

- (void)setAddressFromPerson:(ABRecordRef)person
{
    ABMultiValueRef addresses = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonAddressProperty);
    for (CFIndex j = 0; j<ABMultiValueGetCount(addresses);j++){
        CFDictionaryRef dict = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(addresses, j);
        CFStringRef typeTmp = ABMultiValueCopyLabelAtIndex(addresses, j);
        CFStringRef labeltype = ABAddressBookCopyLocalizedLabel(typeTmp);
        NSString *street = [(NSString *)CFDictionaryGetValue(dict, kABPersonAddressStreetKey) copy];
        NSString *city = [(NSString *)CFDictionaryGetValue(dict, kABPersonAddressCityKey) copy];
        NSString *state = [(NSString *)CFDictionaryGetValue(dict, kABPersonAddressStateKey) copy];
        NSString *zip = [(NSString *)CFDictionaryGetValue(dict, kABPersonAddressZIPKey) copy];
        NSString *country = [(NSString *)CFDictionaryGetValue(dict, kABPersonAddressCountryKey) copy];

        NSLog(street);
    }

Answer 1

It’s a bit difficult to parse visually, but the easiest way to dump everything associated with an ABPersonRef is to get its vCard representation:

ABPersonRef person = ...;
CFDataRef data = ABPersonCreateVCardRepresentationWithPeople(@[person]);
NSString *vcard = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

(assume proper casting from NSArray * ⇒ CFArrayRef, etc)