[smartmind]

I have the following code which would give me an indexoutofbounds error all the time. Is there anyone who could help me out with this.

The phonepacket is just a collector class that takes in the information given out by this method below. this.basecontact is the current contact which also works fine ( i checked and contact gets the values ok).

however the problem seems to be in this line "String phonenumber = this.baseContact.getString( Contact.TEL, attr);".

	public PhonePacket[] getPhoneNumbers(){
		if (!this.baseContact.getPIMList().isSupportedField(Contact.TEL))
			return null;
		int count = this.baseContact.countValues( Contact.TEL );
		if(count < 1)
			return null;
		PhonePacket[] v = new PhonePacket[ count ];
		int i;
		
		for(i=1;i<count;i++){
			int attr = this.baseContact.getAttributes(Contact.TEL,  i );

			String phonenumber = this.baseContact.getString( Contact.TEL, attr);
			v[i] = new PhonePacket(phonenumber, attr, i);			
		}

		return v;
	}

[richard.puckett]

"attr" is a bitmask of attributes associated with that particular phone entry. In order to get the phone number itself you should do:

String phonenumber = this.baseContact.getString( Contact.TEL, i );

The PIM API is pretty darn confusing, IMO.

[simon.hain]

how did you get the numer from the addressbook in the first place?
the last time i tried the only working method was to get an email from it.

here is some code about grabbing the numbers from a contact, DialogNumberChooseItem is just a bean with number and description in it

results = new Vector();
BlackBerryContact contact = (BlackBerryContact) context;
int numValues = contact.countValues(BlackBerryContact.TEL);
for (int i = 0; i < numValues; i++) {
     if (contact.getAttributes(BlackBerryContact.TEL, i) == Contact.ATTR_WORK) {
        results.addElement(new DialogNumberChooseItem(resources.getString(WORK), contact.getString(BlackBerryContact.TEL, i)));
        } else if (contact.getAttributes(BlackBerryContact.TEL, i) == BlackBerryContact.ATTR_HOME) {
        results.addElement(new DialogNumberChooseItem(resources.getString(HOME), contact.getString(BlackBerryContact.TEL, i)));
        } else if (contact.getAttributes(BlackBerryContact.TEL, i) == BlackBerryContact.ATTR_MOBILE) {
        results.addElement(new DialogNumberChooseItem(resources.getString(MOBILE), contact.getString(BlackBerryContact.TEL, i)));
        } else if (contact.getAttributes(BlackBerryContact.TEL, i) == BlackBerryContact.ATTR_OTHER) {
        results.addElement(new DialogNumberChooseItem(resources.getString(OTHER), contact.getString(BlackBerryContact.TEL, i)));
        }
}

[smartmind]

Originally Posted by richard.puckett

"attr" is a bitmask of attributes associated with that particular phone entry. In order to get the phone number itself you should do:

String phonenumber = this.baseContact.getString( Contact.TEL, i );

The PIM API is pretty darn confusing, IMO.

with i, it gives me an index out of bounds exception on i=0 while count values clearly gives me more than 1 available entries.

[richard.puckett]

Oh, just saw this in your code:

for(i=1;i<count;i++){

I just figured it was a standard for-loop. As is often the case, this might best be explained with code. PhoneNumber is a simple bean with public "number" and "attr" strings.

       
Vector phoneNumbers = new Vector();

int id = Contact.TEL;
int numValues = contact.countValues(id);

for (int i = 0; i < numValues; i++) {
   PhoneNumber newPhoneNumber = new PhoneNumber();

   newPhoneNumber.number = contact.getString(id, i);
            
   int attrs = contact.getAttributes(id, i);
   int[] supportedAttrs = contact.getPIMList().getSupportedAttributes(id);
            
   for (int j = 0; j < supportedAttrs.length; j++) {
      if ((attrs & supportedAttrs[j]) == supportedAttrs[j]) {
         String attrName = contact.getPIMList().getAttributeLabel(supportedAttrs[j]);
         newPhoneNumber.attr = attrName;
      }
   }
            
   phoneNumbers.addElement(newPhoneNumber);
}

[smartmind]

Thanks a lot. The problem was corrected when i made a transition to Blackberrycontact instead of standard contact given in the PIM API by J2ME. there was some issue with the index accessing using the attributes that were retrieved using the methods and then with the usage of those as index. Aparently using native blackberrycontacts made it simple and effective.

I was able to retrieve all the phone numbers stored within the contact using a vector which was further used to create a live address book two level search. works fine and gives me live results like the standard address book search so thanks a lot for your help.

Have a nice day !