How to retrieve contact after insert?

[alorma]

Testing on emulator.

  suspend fun createTemporalContact(temporalContact: NewTemporalContact): Boolean {

    val rawContact: NewRawContact = NewRawContact().apply {
      setName {
        displayName = temporalContact.name
        givenName = temporalContact.name
      }
      addPhone {
        number = temporalContact.phone
      }
    }

    val insertResult = contacts
      .insertWithPermission()
      .rawContact {
        setName {
          displayName = temporalContact.name
        }
        addPhone {
          number = temporalContact.phone
        }
      }
      .commit()

    val contact = insertResult.contact(contacts, rawContact)
    Log.i("AlormaContacts", "Contact: $contact") // <-- contact is NULL here

    if (insertResult.isSuccessful && contact != null) {
      val entity = TemporalContactEntity(
        rawContactId = contact.id,
        name = temporalContact.name,
        phone = temporalContact.phone,
        deleteAt = temporalContact.deleteAt,
      )
      temporalContactDao.insert(entity)
      return true
    }
    return false
  }

[vestrel00]

Hey @alorma, I don’t think the bug is with the library so I changed this issue into a discussion. We can create another issue if there is indeed a bug with the library.

I see that the issue is that you are creating an instance of a NewRawContact twice. The first instance you created is not passed into the insert function but is passed into the insert result.

Try this,

suspend fun createTemporalContact(temporalContact: NewTemporalContact): Boolean {

    val rawContact: NewRawContact = NewRawContact().apply {
      setName {
        displayName = temporalContact.name
      }
      addPhone {
        number = temporalContact.phone
      }
    }

    val insertResult = contacts
      .insertWithPermission()
      .rawContacts(rawContact)
      .commit()

    val insertedRawContact = insertResult.rawContact(contacts, rawContact)

    if (insertResult.isSuccessful && insertedRawContact != null) {
      val entity = TemporalContactEntity(
        rawContactId = insertedRawContact.id,
        ...

I changed two things in the code snippet you provided,

1. Pass the NewRawContact reference into the insert function; rawContacts(rawContact)
2. Retrieve the RawContact instead of the Contact from the insertResult because you want the rawContactId.

For the second change, you can still retrieve the Contact from the insertResult if you want. Then you would instead do the following to get the rawContactId; rawContactId = insertedContact.rawContacts.first().id

Also, it seems like you don't even need to retrieve the full contact or raw contact from the insert result. You just want the raw contact id, which you can get directly from the insert result.

The shortest code for what you want to achieve is this...

suspend fun createTemporalContact(temporalContact: NewTemporalContact): Boolean {
    val insertResult = contacts
      .insertWithPermission()
      .rawContact {
        setName {
          displayName = temporalContact.name
        }
        addPhone {
          number = temporalContact.phone
        }
      }
      .commit()

    if (insertResult.isSuccessful) {
      val entity = TemporalContactEntity(
        rawContactId = insertResult.rawContactIds.first(),
        ...

Let me know if this fixes your issue.

Full documentation on handling insert results can be found at https://vestrel00.github.io/contacts-android/basics/insert-contacts/#handling-the-insert-result

[vestrel00]

Please mark this as the answer if it answered your question and fixed your issue 🙏

[alorma]

And ofc... Too much speed on moving code. I didn't noticied my bug.

Will check later

[alorma]

Done! Thanks!