This was a bug in 2.1. Lookup key was based on the contact name for unsynced
contacts, which created the problem you are describing.  As of 2.2 we use
raw contact ids instead. In both cases we use stable server-side ids for
synced contacts.
On Nov 29, 2010 11:01 PM, "LSDsl" <gls...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Misunderstand with this (getLookupUri(contactId, lookupKey)).
>
> I store id and lookup in my application.
>
> After resave contact (change name for example) lookup also changes
> (but ID not change) I cannot select contact from DB using
> getLookupUri(contactId, lookupKey). Why? In docs "When both IDs are
> present in the URI, the system will try to use the long ID first. That
> is a very quick query. If the contact is not found, or if the one that
> is found has the wrong lookup key, the content provider will parse the
> lookup key and track down the constituent raw contacts.". So long ID
> is correct in my situation. So can somebody clarify this situation and
> say how what information I must store to 100% select contact in future?
>
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