ABPeoplePickerNavigationControllerDelegate: shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson giving bad ABMultiValue id with email addresses - iphone

Question

This works fine when I select contacts that have multiple phone numbers, and pick one of their phone numbers, recipientAddress is set to the selected phone number. But when I select email addresses from contacts having multiple email addresses, the ABMultiValueIdentifier is zero, and it translates into an index of zero, which is always the last email in the contact, regardless of which I selected.
I must be doing something embarrassingly wrong and easy to find, so please make yourself look great by exposing my foolishness.
- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person property:(ABPropertyID)property identifier:(ABMultiValueIdentifier)identifier
{
#try {
[eta addRecipient: person : property: identifier];
}
#catch (NSException *exception) {
errExcLog(exception);
}
return NO;
}
- (void) addRecipient : (ABRecordRef) person : (ABPropertyID) property : (ABMultiValueIdentifier)identifier {
ABMultiValueRef mvPropertyRef = ABRecordCopyValue(person, property);
int propertyIndex = ABMultiValueGetIndexForIdentifier( mvPropertyRef, identifier);
NSString *recipientAddress = (__bridge NSString *)(ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex( mvPropertyRef, propertyIndex));
}

Answer 1

These two methods might help you to get the selected person's email id
- (BOOL)peoplePickerNavigationController:(ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)peoplePicker
shouldContinueAfterSelectingPerson:(ABRecordRef)person
property:(ABPropertyID)property
identifier:(ABMultiValueIdentifier)identifier
{
ABPersonViewController *controller = [[ABPersonViewController alloc] init];
controller.displayedPerson = person;
controller.displayedProperties = [NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:kABPersonEmailProperty]];
controller.personViewDelegate = self;
[peoplePicker pushViewController:controller animated:YES];
[controller release];
return NO;
}
-(BOOL)personViewController:(ABPersonViewController *)personViewController
shouldPerformDefaultActionForPerson:(ABRecordRef)person
property:(ABPropertyID)property
identifier:(ABMultiValueIdentifier)identifierForValue
{
ABMutableMultiValueRef multiEmail = ABRecordCopyValue(person, property);
NSString *emailAddress = (NSString *) ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(multiEmail, identifierForValue);
NSLog(#"strEmail %#",emailAddress);
ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *peoplePicker = (ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *)personViewController.navigationController;
[peoplePicker dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
return NO;
}