Error getting information from address book - ios

Question

I'm having an issue retrieving an array of certain data from the address book. Here's the code:
- (void) getContacts{
ABAddressBookRef ab = ABAddressBookCreate();
NSMutableArray *retVal = (__bridge NSMutableArray *)(ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(ab));
CFRelease(ab);
contact* temp=[[contact alloc] init];
NSMutableArray* tempArray=[[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
for(int i=0;i<[retVal count];i++)
[tempArray insertObject:
[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",
[temp set2:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",
[[retVal objectAtIndex:i] kABPersonFirstNameProperty]]
last:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",
[[retVal objectAtIndex:i] kABPersonLastNameProperty]]
number:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",
[[retVal objectAtIndex:i] kABPersonPhoneProperty]]]] atIndex:i];
_objects=tempArray;
[self alert:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",_objects] title:#"TEMP"];
}
The errors I'm getting are about the kABPerson properties.
Some more clarification: essentially I'm grabbing all the data from the address book into the first array and then I'm manually going through that array and attempting to retrieve the data that I need for the rest of my app.
Any ideas?
Just for more clarification here's my contact.h file:
#interface contact : NSString{
NSString* first;
NSString* last;
NSString* number;
}
#end
And here's my contact.m file:
#implementation contact
- (void) set:(NSString*)first2 last:(NSString*)last2 number:(NSString*)number2{
first=first2;
last=last2;
number=number2;
}
- (contact*) set2:(NSString*)first2 last:(NSString*)last2 number:(NSString*)number2{
first=first2;
last=last2;
number=number2;
return self;
}
#end
Here's that line that seems to be too long to post:
//Enter contact into tempArray
[tempArray insertObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",[temp set:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",(__bridge NSString *)(ABRecordCopyValue((__bridge ABMultiValueRef)[retVal objectAtIndex:i],kABPersonFirstNameProperty))] last:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#",(__bridge NSString *)(ABRecordCopyValue((__bridge ABMultiValueRef)[retVal objectAtIndex:i],kABPersonLastNameProperty))] number:(__bridge NSString *)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex((__bridge ABMultiValueRef)((__bridge NSString*)ABRecordCopyValue((__bridge ABRecordRef)([retVal objectAtIndex:i]),kABPersonPhoneProperty)), 0)]] atIndex:i];

Answer 1

kABPersonFirstNameProperty is a property ID, not an Objective-C object property.
That is, you can't use [[retVal objectAtIndex:i] kABPersonFirstNameProperty] -- you will instead need to access the first and last names like this:
CFStringRef firstName = ABRecordCopyValue ([retVal objectAtIndex:i], kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
CFStringRef lastName = ABRecordCopyValue ([retVal objectAtIndex:i], kABPersonLastNameProperty);
CFStringRef phoneNum = ABRecordCopyValue ([retVal objectAtIndex:i], kABPersonPhoneProperty);
Then don't forget that ABRecordCopyValue follows the Create Rule -- you'll need to CFRelease(firstName) afterwards.