Fetching contact field (PIM)

Fetching contact field (PIM)

22 May 2008

Each contact entry in a PIM Contact database is represented by Contact. This post is all about retrieving contact fields from PIM.

The supported field list for a Contact depends on vCard specification from the Internet Mail Consortium. These set of fields included in this Contact class provides relevant information about a contact. ContactList restricts what fields a Contact can retain. This reflects that some native Contact databases do not support all o the fields available in a Contact item. Time for an example:

// fetching DOB
if (contactList.isSupportedField(Contact.BIRTHDAY))
{
System.out.println("BirthDay: " +
contact.getDate(Contact.BIRTHDAY,0));
}
else
{
System.out.println(“DOB is not supported.”);
}