Contact id: is encoded or not a string?

[Sibil87]

Hello guys!

I want to know the id of every contact in the phone.

In the web Runtime API Refernce at the page Returned contact information (http://library.forum.nokia.com/index...F222B097F.html) we can find written:

Property Description Type

<item>.id Unique identifier of the contact. string

The problem is if I try to access to the ID of contact I get a string like:


Is this normal?
Is this encoded in something like hex?
How do I convert it in normal number?

Do I really need to convert it or I can just use it in this way?

[jappit]

Hi Sibil87,

are you testing on device or some emulator?

Pit

[Sibil87]

I'm testing it on the EMULATOR "s60 5th Edidtion SDK v1.0 ".

I don't have any mobilephone to test it :P

[jappit]

If you have a sample widget, I can make a test on a real device, to see how IDs are represented.

Pit

[Sibil87]

ok jappit I just modified the demo ContactSampleWgt so it displays also ID...

U have only to install on mobile phone and click get contact list and it should show:
id (only squares) , firstname and lastname.

I sent u the widget to ur libero.it email!

Let me know
e grazie mille

[jappit]

Hi Sibil87,

I've tried your widget on a Nokia N97, but I always get "<showContacList> TypeError: Undefined Value" when clicking on "GetContactList".

Pit

[mmaleki]

Yes it is normal. It is some binary representation. I don't know if there is a translation to simple encoding.

If you set your html page encoding to UTF-8, you'll get something like:

""

The contact id wasn't meant to be shown, but used programmatically.