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Niels Robben
Niels Robben

Reputation: 1647

Create a contact programmatically in Swift

I am creating an application where it is needed to add a contact to the address book of that device. When I am adding the contact to the device using only the first and last name, everything is going fine. However when I am trying to add the phone number as well, the app crashes. Can anybody see what I am doing wrong here?

Thanks in advance!

    let firstName = "Firstname"
    let lastName = "Lastname"
    let telephoneNumber = "1234567890"
    let notes = "This is a note"

    let person: ABRecordRef = ABPersonCreate().takeRetainedValue()

    let couldSetFirstName = ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty, firstName as CFTypeRef, nil)

    let couldSetLastName = ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonLastNameProperty, lastName as CFTypeRef, nil)
    let couldSetPhoneNumber = ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty, telephoneNumber as CFTypeRef, nil)

    let couldSetNotes = ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonNoteProperty, notes, nil)

    var error: Unmanaged<CFErrorRef>? = nil

    let couldAddPerson = ABAddressBookAddRecord(inAddressBook, person, &error)

    if couldAddPerson {
        println("Added person")
    } else{
        println("Failed to add person")
        return nil
    }

    if ABAddressBookHasUnsavedChanges(inAddressBook){

        var error: Unmanaged<CFErrorRef>? = nil
        let couldSaveAddressBook = ABAddressBookSave(inAddressBook, &error)

        if couldSaveAddressBook{
            println("Saved address book")
        } else {
            println("Failed to save address book")
        }

        if couldSetFirstName && couldSetLastName {
            println("Succesfully set first and last name")
        } else{
            println("Failed to set first and last name")
        }
    }

    return person

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3401

Answers (1)

Jesse Rusak
Jesse Rusak

Reputation: 57168

You're passing a string to set the value of kABPersonPhoneProperty, which is not correct. The phone number is not a string property; it's a multi-value property. You need to set it using something like the code from here: How to create contacts in address book in iPhone SDK? (which is Objective-C, but should be straightforward to translate.)

NSString *phone = @"0123456789"; // the phone number to add

//Phone number is a list of phone number, so create a multivalue    
ABMutableMultiValueRef phoneNumberMultiValue = ABMultiValueCreateMutable(kABMultiStringPropertyType);
ABMultiValueAddValueAndLabel(phoneNumberMultiValue, phone, kABPersonPhoneMobileLabel, NULL);

ABRecordSetValue(person, kABPersonPhoneProperty, phoneNumberMultiValue, &anError); // set the phone number property

Upvotes: 2

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