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Becky Gibson commented on CB-223:
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Yes, categories was not part of the August, 2010 W3C Contacts API specification
so it did not get implemented. We did add the field into the Contacts object
when we updated to the Dec, 2010, version of the spec. but it didn't get
implemented.
We can easily find a list of all groups and get members of the group. However,
there does not seem to be a direct correlation from a person record to a group
record - making determining what group a person record belongs to a fairly
difficult search. Thus, any time that categories is added as a search term, it
is going to require a more complicated search algorithm.
> Add support for iOS contact groups
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> Key: CB-223
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-223
> Project: Apache Callback
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: iOS
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0
> Environment: iOS
> Reporter: Robert La Ferla
> Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: addressbook, categories, contacts, groups, ios
>
> Contacts on iOS are organized by group. There is the default group "All
> Contacts" plus any custom groups that the user set up. Contacts retrieved by
> Apache Cordova / phonegap do not contain which group they are in.
> CONTACT CATEGORIES PROPERTY
> I believe that iOS groups are analogous to phonegap contact categories and
> thus should be mapped to them. If not, another property should be created.
> From the Cordova docs:
> "categories: An array of all the contacts user defined categories.
> (ContactField[])"
> IOS IMPLEMENTATION NOTES:
> In the iOS AddressBook API, the function ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllGroups()
> gets the list of groups.
> https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/ContactData/Conceptual/AddressBookProgrammingGuideforiPhone/Chapters/DirectInteraction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007744-CH6-SW1
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