Problem search contact - Contacts2 library

[brelto85]

hi,

I have some problems with the library research contacts
if I try to search for contacts that also connect to facebook (hence name), are found correctly

but if the contact has no link with other networks (facebook, linkedin eccc ..) is not found

Dim wName as string
Dim wContacts As Contacts2
Dim wList As List = wContacts.FindByName (wName, False, True, False)

Example 1:

wName:
'rossi'

wList:
Mario Rossi (have a link with facebook)
Carlo Rossi (have a link with facebook)
etc. ...

Example 2:

wName
'pippo'

wList:
empty (although he has a 'pippo' contact in the address book that is not connected to anything)

Is there any parameter to be set or forcing search field?

Alberto

 

[Erel]

Are these contacts listed when you call wContacts.GetAll ?

 

[brelto85]

yes the contacts are listed
i've trying to force ToUpperCase before pass the name but the result don't change

 

[Erel]

FindByName looks in the display name field. Maybe the name only appears on the name field?

Note that you can create a custom query with GetContactsByQuery.

 

[brelto85]

in my example the value 'pippo' it is in the "DisplayName" and in the field "Name"

 

[Erel]

If the value is in the DisplayName field then it should return. I've tried to reproduce this problem here without success.

 

[brelto85]

Also if i use GetContactsByQuery doesn't work

Debugging GetContactsByQuery, i notice that the column 'name' is not present in SELECT

 

[Erel]

Debugging GetContactsByQuery, i notice that the column 'name' is not present in SELECT

You are correct. You will not be able to query the "name" field with GetContactsByQuery.

The only solution that I can think of is to get all contacts (preferably asynchronously) and then search for the name yourself.

 

[brelto85]

ok,

Alternatively there are other similar libraries like i can try?

 

[brelto85]

it is possible that the problem is related to some permission as android.permission.READ_CONTACTS?

 

[Erel]

The permission should be added automatically when you use Contacts2.

 

[brelto85]

I want to know if this problem i 've found just me (maybe it's a problem of my HTC one S) or other...

 

[Erel]

It works fine here (Galaxy Nexus). It was also tested on other phones.

 

[brelto85]

Continuing to analyze the problem, i noticed that if i search a contact from name, does not find anything

Suppose then that my contacts are (with display_name): "Paolo Rossi", "Carlo Rossi", "pippo"

criteria = "Rossi"
results = "Paolo Rossi", "Carlo Rossi"

criteria = "Paolo"
results = empty

criteria = "pippo"
results = empty

I can maybe try to change some settings in my book to understand the problem?

thanks

 

[Erel]

Seems like your device stores the names in a non-standard way.

I recommend you to get all contacts (without the notes and phone numbers). It should be quite fast. You can then use SearchView to search the items.

 

[brelto85]

thanks so much Erel
i'll try this last mode

Alberto

 

[brelto85]

I found the cause!!!!!!
The problem was the space in the name that i passed (that recovered from VoiceRecognition string)

Dim wList As List = wContacts.FindByName(Name.Trim, False, True, False)

with ".Trim" method works perfect!!

thanks
Alberto