cocoa - List of kAB*** properties?

Question

The AddressBook framework has a list of constants, like kABFirstNameProperty. I'm wondering if there's a list of those that I could display in a user interface, other than having to "replicate" this myself?

Answer 1

In the C-based Address Book API for the Mac, there's a function named ABCopyArrayOfPropertiesForRecordType that sounds like exactly what you need.

I would hope that the property keys would be equal to those in the Objective-C AB API, if that's what you're using, but you should probably test that—or just use the C-based API.

Answer 2

I just found the Objective-C API's equivalents to the ABCopyArrayOfPropertiesForRecordType function. Two methods:

• +[ABPerson properties]
• +[ABGroup properties]

Since these are class methods, you should find that they return all known properties for any records of that type.