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Reading birthday from ContactProvider, invalid column

i'm doing some tests to figure out how the provider works with events etc.
I'm trying to get all contacts of specific accounts, then read details of each contact to get the birthday if present.
I firstly tried to do it in 1 go but I didn't have enough knowledge of the provider so I'm trying to do it in 2 steps for know just to see if I can get to it.
I get Invalid column on this line:
Cursor cursor = cr.query(uri, projection, [...]
The contact_id is the problem here. How can I improve the second query to get the data I want? I tried various mods on the code getting nowhere.
Thanks.
The code I use:
private void readContacts(){
Cursor contByAccCursor = getContactsByAccounts();
getContactsBirthdays(contByAccCursor);
}
private Cursor getContactsByAccounts() {
Uri uri = ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] {
ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTACT_ID,
ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE
};
String where = ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE + " IN ('com.google', 'vnd.sec.contact.phone', 'com.skype.contacts.sync')";
return activity.getContentResolver().query(uri,
projection,
where,
null,
null);
}
private void getContactsBirthdays(Cursor filteredContacts) {
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] {
//ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTACT_ID,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE
};
String where =
ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "= ? AND " +
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE + "=" +
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE_BIRTHDAY + " AND " +
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTACT_ID + "= ?";
String[] selectionArgs;
String sortOrder = null;
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
ContentResolver cr = activity.getContentResolver();
int accTypeCol = filteredContacts.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.RawContacts.ACCOUNT_TYPE);
while(filteredContacts.moveToNext()){
selectionArgs = new String[] {
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,
filteredContacts.getString(filteredContacts.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTACT_ID))
};
Cursor cursor = cr.query(uri,
projection,
where,
selectionArgs,
sortOrder);
if(cursor.moveToNext()){
String dName = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME_PRIMARY));
String bDay = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE));
String accType = filteredContacts.getString(accTypeCol);
sb.append(dName + "("+accType+")" + " - " + bDay);
sb.append("\n");
}
}
Log.d(TAG, sb.toString());
}

Ok I feel so stupid now. The error is the second content_uri, I was getting the wrong one, must be tired...
This is the correct uri to get the right data:
private void getContactsBirthdays(Cursor filteredContacts) {
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI;

Android 4.1+/ContactContract: Lookup group to given contactId (derived from lookup a number)

The following function has a phone number as input parameter (e.g. +436641234567 or +436641234567) and performs two lookups in the Contacts database: first, identify the user belonging to this number (this already works) and then to use the id of the user to get all groups this contact is assigned to (and this does not work). Test gives back the correct id (again), however, the group is "null".
public String getNameGroupByNumber(Context context, String number) {
String name = "?";
String contactId = "0";
String group = "0";
String test = "0";
// Step 1: LookUp Name to given Number
ContentResolver contentResolver = context.getContentResolver();
Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(number));
String[] contactProjection = new String[] {BaseColumns._ID, ContactsContract.PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME };
Cursor contactLookup = contentResolver.query(uri, contactProjection, null, null, null);
try {
if (contactLookup != null && contactLookup.getCount() > 0) {
contactLookup.moveToNext();
name = contactLookup.getString(contactLookup.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME));
contactId = contactLookup.getString(contactLookup.getColumnIndex(BaseColumns._ID));
}
} finally {
if (contactLookup != null) {
contactLookup.close();
}
}
Log.d(TAG, "Name: " +name + " ContactId: " + contactId); // works as expected
// Step 2: Lookup group memberships of the contact found in step one
Uri groupURI = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI;
String[] groupProjection = new String[]{ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.GROUP_ROW_ID , ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.CONTACT_ID};
Cursor groupLookup = contentResolver.query(groupURI, groupProjection, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.CONTACT_ID+"="+contactId, null, null);
try {
if (groupLookup != null && groupLookup.getCount() > 0) {
groupLookup.moveToNext();
test = groupLookup.getString(groupLookup.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.CONTACT_ID));
group = groupLookup.getString(groupLookup.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.GROUP_ROW_ID));
Log.d(TAG, "Group found with Id: " + test + " and GroupId: " + group); // test is again the contactID from above but group is null
}
} finally {
if (groupLookup != null) {
groupLookup.close();
}
}
return name;
}

Cursor groupLookup = getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI,
new String[]{
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.GROUP_ROW_ID ,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.CONTACT_ID
},
ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "=? AND " + ContactContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + "=?",
new String[]{
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.GroupMembership.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE,
contact_id
}, null
);
Use this groupLookup cursor instead.
Cursor groupCursor = getContentResolver().query(
ContactsContract.Groups.CONTENT_URI,
new String[]{
ContactsContract.Groups._ID,
ContactsContract.Groups.TITLE
}, ContactsContract.Groups._ID + "=" + _id, null, null
);
groupCursor helps to get Group title from _id.

Not able to fetch the correct Birthday and Anniversary data from Contact

I am able to fetch other information (Display name,organisation,phone no and email_id) of a contact, but not able to fetch birthday and anniversary of that contact.
Here is the code i am using for birthday. It does fetch the data, but gives me wrong data, i.e repeats the same data for all the contacts.
private String getBDate(String id) {
String bday = null;
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] {
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTACT_ID,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE };
String where = ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "= ? AND "
+ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE + "="
+ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE_BIRTHDAY;
String[] selectionArgs = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE };
String sortOrder = null;
Cursor cur = cr.query(uri, projection, where, selectionArgs, sortOrder);
while (cur.moveToNext()) {
bday = cur
.getString(cur
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE));
Log.v("Birthday", bday);
}
cur.close();
return bday;
}
Same is the case with anniversary, here is the code for it. In some case anniversary is not added but it still shows the data from other contact.
private String getAnnv(String id) {
String annv = null;
ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] {
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTACT_ID,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE };
String where = ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "= ? AND "
+ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE + "="
+ ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE_ANNIVERSARY;
String[] selectionArgs = new String[] { ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE };
// String sortOrder = null;
Cursor cur = cr.query(uri, projection, where, selectionArgs, null);
while (cur.moveToNext()) {
annv = cur
.getString(cur
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE));
Log.v("Anniversary", annv);
}
cur.close();
return annv;
}

you are not using String id perameter in where condition so please check again.
E,g private String getAnnv(String id) function has input for ID but that seems to be not used withing function so please put that ID in condition check and this should work.
e.g
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTACT_ID + "= " + ID
AND ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + "= ? AND "

Android: adding a birthday event to an android contact programmatically

I am trying to birthday information to a contact. I use lookupkey to identify my contacts (as it is safer than just relying on contactId). In order to be able to insert the Event into the database i need a raw_contact_id ... so i'm trying to get this id:
String where = ContactsContract.Data.LOOKUP_KEY + " = ? AND "
+ ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE + " = ?";
String[] params = new String[] { lookupKey,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE };
Cursor cursor = contentResolver.query(
ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, null, where, params, null);
if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
birthdayRow = cursor.getInt(idIdx);
long rawContactId = cursor.getLong(cursor
.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID));
}
The problem is that if there is not birthday event set for a contact then this cursor i receive is empty ... and i don't know how to insert this event without a raw_contact_id. In order to insert the event i do the folowing:
values.put(ContactsContract.Data.RAW_CONTACT_ID, rawContactId);
values.put(ContactsContract.Data.MIMETYPE, Event.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE);
values.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE,
birthdayStartDate);
values.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE_BIRTHDAY);
values.put(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE,
context.getString(R.string.birthday_label));
if (birthdayRow >= 0) {
int result = contentResolver.update(
ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, values,
ContactsContract.Data._ID + " = " + birthdayRow, null);
Log.i("ContactList", "update result: " + result);
} else {
Uri result = contentResolver.insert(
ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, values);
Log.i("ContactList", "update result: " + result);
}
So please advice what shall i do, is there any way to add this event to the ContactData whitout a raw_contact id? Also i find strange the fact that for other ContactData like nickname i am doing the same thing and i dont get an empty cursor for the params
String[] params = new String[] { String.valueOf(lookupKey),
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Nickname.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE };
even if the contact has no nickname.

Use this to get the raw contact id before performing the insert.
long rawContactId = -1;
String[] projection = new String[]{ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.RAW_CONTACT_ID};
String selection = ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.CONTACT_ID + "=?";
String[] selectionArgs = new String[]{
String.valueOf(bdayContact.getId()) };
Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, projection, selection, selectionArgs, null);
try {
if (c.moveToFirst()) {
rawContactId = c.getLong(0);
}
} finally {
c.close();
}

Android get a cursor only with contacts that have an email listed

Friends I want Contacts which have email and also sort in ascending order..
any one know how to get this list and sort..
Please help me and thanks in advance.
I am using this code.
MatrixCursor matCur = new MatrixCursor(new String[] { Contacts._ID,
Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME, "photo_id", "starred" });
Cursor cEmail = WP7Main.this.managedQuery(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
cEmail.moveToFirst();
if (cEmail.moveToFirst())
{
// String name =
// cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(People.NAME));
String contactId = cEmail.getString(cEmail.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
Cursor emails = WP7Main.this.getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI,
null,ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID+ " = " + contactId, null, null);
String emailAddress = "";
while (emails.moveToNext())
{
// This would allow you get several email addresses
if (emails.getString(emails.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA)) != null)
{
String[] columnValues = {
cEmail.getString(cEmail
.getColumnIndex("_id")),
cEmail.getString(cEmail
.getColumnIndex("display_name")),
cEmail.getString(cEmail
.getColumnIndex("photo_id")),
cEmail.getString(cEmail
.getColumnIndex("starred")) };
matCur.addRow(columnValues);
}
}
emails.close();
}

Try this:
/**
* #return A managed cursor of email contacts for the given activity.
*/
public static Cursor buildFilteredEmailCursor(Activity activity) {
final String my_sort_order = ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " COLLATE LOCALIZED ASC";
String my_selection = ContactsContract.Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP + " = '1'";
String[] eproj = new String[]{
ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME,
ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA};
Uri uri = android.provider.ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI;
return activity.managedQuery(uri, eproj, my_selection, null, my_sort_order);
}

Use this query :
Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(Data.CONTENT_URI,
new String[]{Data.CONTACT_ID, Data.DISPLAY_NAME, Email.ADDRESS},
Data.MIMETYPE + "=?", new String[] {Email.CONTENT_TYPE}, Data.DISPLAY_NAME /* use Email.ADDRESS if you want to sort it using that*/);