iPhone SDK Accessing Address book company contact - iphone

Question

I have been able to use the SDK to access Address Book contacts for people, but whenever I pick a contact who is a company, my app crashes.
does anyone know the property for the company field?
does anyone know the code to make it work?
thanks in advance

Answer 1

It seems your issue is not related to company tag itself. AB fields need to be managed carefully, released when not used and checked for nil all the time, many fields are not set.
In principle, here is example of how I use it. This function loads contacts (those fields interested for my app) and returns array with contacts to the caller. Hope this is helpful. Note how I release not needed refs.
- (NSArray *)loadContacts
{
ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
CFIndex nPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook);
NSMutableArray *contacts = [NSMutableArray array];
for (int i = 0 ; i < nPeople ; i++ ) {
ABRecordRef person = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(allPeople, i);
NSString *firstName = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
NSString *lastName = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonLastNameProperty);
NSString *fullName;
if (firstName && lastName) {
fullName = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%# %#", firstName, lastName];
} else {
if (firstName) {
fullName = [NSString stringWithString:firstName];
} else if (lastName) {
fullName = [NSString stringWithString:lastName];
} else {
continue;
}
}
NSString *email = nil;
ABMultiValueRef emails = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonEmailProperty);
if (emails) {
NSArray *emailAddresses = [(NSArray *)ABMultiValueCopyArrayOfAllValues(emails) autorelease];
if (emailAddresses && [emailAddresses count] > 0)
email = [emailAddresses objectAtIndex:0];
CFRelease(emails);
}
if (email) {
NSDictionary *contact = [NSDictionary
dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:fullName, #"name",
email, #"email", nil];
[contacts addObject:contact];
}
if (firstName)
CFRelease(firstName);
if (lastName)
CFRelease(lastName);
}
CFRelease(allPeople);
CFRelease(addressBook);
return contacts;
}

Answer 2

you need to use kABPersonOrganizationProperty property for get the company name from addressbook