Accessing custom labels in Contacts

[samaklis]

Hi,

I was wondering if custom labels can be accessed through the Contacts module.

For example, I have a custom label on some of my contacts called "nameday", but I do not see a way that the Contacts module would make it accessible, so wondering if there is some undocumented feature.

Thanks

[cvp]

@samaklis you can have a custom label on several different fields, like phone, email, address...

Exemple if I print contact.email, I get an array of tuples (label,email) and you can see I have some custom labels like "Kindle"

[('_$!<Home>!$_', 'xxxxx@gmail.com'), ('_$!<Work>!$_', 'yyyyy@ec.europa.eu'), ('_$!<Other>!$_', 'zzzzz@hotmail.com'), ('Kindle', 'xxxxx@kindle.com'),] 

[samaklis]

That works fine for email as it it returns back multi string according to http://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios/contacts.html but contacts in iOS also have the notion of a Date field (in contacts you can add under more fields a "Date" field, and then you can customize the label on it, but from reading the Pythonista documentation it does not seem to be exposed via the Contacts API.

[cvp]

@samaklis try this

from objc_util import *

# ObjectiveC contacts
CNContactStore = ObjCClass('CNContactStore').alloc().init()
CNContact = ObjCClass('CNContact')
Containers = CNContactStore.containersMatchingPredicate_error_(None,None)
for Container in Containers:
    id = Container.identifier()
    predicate = CNContact.predicateForContactsInContainerWithIdentifier_(id)
    # keys not exactly like in Apple doc
    predicate_contacts = CNContactStore.unifiedContactsMatchingPredicate_keysToFetch_error_(predicate, ['familyName', 'givenName', 'middleName', 'dates'], None)
    for contact in predicate_contacts:
        if len(contact.dates()) == 0:
          continue
        name = str(contact.givenName()) + '|' + str(contact.middleName()) + '|' + str(contact.familyName())
        print(name)
        for date in contact.dates():
          d = date.value()
          print(date.label(),':',d.year(),d.month(),d.day()) 

[samaklis]

@cvp Thank you. I will try and revert back, but this looks exactly what I was looking for.

[Mehaffeys]

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[cvp]

@Mehaffeys on my iPad, with last iOS, no problem to add my own labels

[cvp]

@Mehaffeys you could add by Pythonista script any custom label field, try this

# add a date field with custom label to an existing contact
#   of course extensible to all fields
from objc_util import *
	
def main():
	
	CNContactStore = ObjCClass('CNContactStore').alloc().init().autorelease()

	# get a particular contact	
	contact_name = 'a Pythonista'
	date_label   = 'my own label'
	date_ymd     = '20200201'
	CNContact = ObjCClass('CNContact')	
	predicate = CNContact.predicateForContactsMatchingName_(contact_name)
	predicate_contacts = CNContactStore.unifiedContactsMatchingPredicate_keysToFetch_error_(predicate, ['dates'], None)
	
	for contact in predicate_contacts:
		# Create a CNMutableContact by copy of an existing contact
		CNMutableContact = ObjCClass('CNMutableContact').alloc().init()
		CNMutableContact = contact.mutableCopy()

		# Create a date 		
		NSDateComponents = ObjCClass('NSDateComponents').alloc().init()
		NSDateComponents.setDay_  (int(date_ymd[6:8]))
		NSDateComponents.setMonth_(int(date_ymd[4:6]))
		NSDateComponents.setYear_ (int(date_ymd[0:4]))

		# create a custom label
		CNLabeledValue = ObjCClass('CNLabeledValue').alloc()
		CNLabeledValue.initWithLabel_value_(date_label, NSDateComponents)

		# create a date with custom label		
		CNMutableContact.setDates_(ns([CNLabeledValue]))

		# save modified contact		
		CNSaveRequest = ObjCClass('CNSaveRequest').new().autorelease()
		CNSaveRequest.updateContact_(CNMutableContact)
		CNContactStore.executeSaveRequest_error_(CNSaveRequest, None)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main() 

[JonB]

Aww, we fell for a spam trick

[cvp]

@JonB Do you think that about Mehaffeys ? Because samaklis answered.