Question

On MAC platform, the ABPerson class has a parentGroups attribute, which tells us which groups the person belongs to. But On IOS platform, there is no such method or property..

How to find out the parent groups of a person? Do I needs to search through all groups one by one?

Thanks.

Answer 1

another thread mentioned ABPersonCopyParentGroups — but this is wrong -n.a. on ios.

there is no api call so doing this directly is needed

ABRecordRef personToFind = ....
ABRecordID id = ABRecordGetRecordID(personToFind);

NSArray *groups = (__bridge_transfer NSArray*)ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllGroups(bookRef);
for(ABGroupRef group in groups) {
    NSArray *members = (__bridge_transfer NSArray*)ABGroupCopyAllMembers(group);
    for(ABRecordRef member in members) {
        if(id == ABRecordGetRecordID(member){
            NSLog(@"found in group %@!", ABGroupCopyProperty(group, kABGroupName);
            break;
        }
    }            
}

*typed inline, no guarantees — there are likely typos!