CContactItem fails to read fields of a contact

[ruchaitu]

Hi,
my task is to read all the contacts in a contact db and find out if they have thumbnails or not.
It is being done like this.

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CContactDatabase* contactDB = CContactDatabase::OpenL();
CleanupStack::PushL(contactDB);

CContactItem* contactItem = contactDB->ReadContactLC(id);
CContactItemFieldSet& ref = contactItem->CardFields();

picIndex = contactItem->CardFields().Find(KUidContactFieldPicture);
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The above code, works fine as long as the contact has thumbnail,
When the code encounters the contact with out thumbnail for the first time,
the picIndex value is -1 and all subsequent contacts (even if they have thumbnail)
are shown as not having thumbnail and picIndex value is -1.

I tried to search the forum, but of no use.
Is this a known issue??
please help.

Note: deleting and opening contact database for every new request does not help.

[pirosl]

How do you get the id used in contactDB->ReadContactLC(id)?

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[ruchaitu]

that was trivial, i get it from sortbytypel or sorteditemsl.

is this the root cause, because the same contact id works fine, if the first contact that encountered has thumbnail.

br,
- kc

[pirosl]

that was trivial, i get it from sortbytypel or sorteditemsl.

is this the root cause, because the same contact id works fine, if the first contact that encountered has thumbnail.

br,
- kc

Yep...I think the problem is with contact ids

[hotcheese]

Have you confirmed id is actually different each time you call ReadContactLC() ?

[ruchaitu]

sorry for the late update.
the id was actually a reference to integer.
what i did was, i assigned it to a new local integer varable and passed to it seperately and things started working fine.
thanks for the hint.

br,
- kc