Phonegap contact.save duplicate phoneNumbers when updating a contact

Question

I have a problem with Phonegap contacts.save. When I create a contact, it works fine on iOS and Android, but when I try to update a contact, there are duplicate files such as phoneNumbers, emails, URLs, ims, addresses, I use Phonegap 2.1 and Xcode 4.5.1.

Can someone help me solve this problem ?. I appreciate your time. Thanks.

In summary:

• navigator.contacts.create (); works correctly.
• when I try to update a contact, save it correctly, but add phone numbers instead.

My code is:

var options = new ContactFindOptions(); options.filter = 20; //just it an example. Looking for id 20. var fields = ['id']; var contact; navigator.contacts.find(fields,function(contacts){ if (contacts.length==0) contact = navigator.contacts.create(); else contact = contacts[0]; var tContactName = new ContactName(); tContactName.givenName = 'Name'; tContactName.LastName = 'LastName'; contact.name = tContactName; var tPhoneNumbers[2]; tPhoneNumbers[0] = new ContactField('work', '123456789012',true); tPhoneNumbers[1] = new ContactField('home', '120987654321', false); contact.phoneNumbers = tPhoneNumbers; contact.save(function(contact) { navigator.notification.alert('Saved sucessfully!!!',function(){},'Title'); }, function(contactError) { navigator.notification.alert('Error contact save: '+contactError.code,function(){},'Title'); } }, function(contactError) { navigator.notification.alert('Error contact find: '+contactError.code,function(){},'Title'); }, options); 

Answer 1

The code works exactly as it should in accordance with the W3C Contact specification. This does not mean that it makes sense, though :)

In any case, when you create a new array of phone numbers and set it to the contact.phoneNumbers property, you add the phone numbers to the contact. If you want to edit / replace existing phone numbers, you need to request phone numbers as part of your “fields”. Then you need to scroll through the existing phone numbers and edit them as you wish.

Yup, this is contrary to intuition, but for you W3C api.

Answer 2

You need to assign a value for the already created contact field for phone numbers instead of a new value for phone numbers using the new ContactField .

So here is an example of updating phone numbers,

 contact.tphoneNumbers[0].value = 123456789012 contact.tphoneNumbers[1].value = 120987654321 

then instead of using contact.phoneNumbers = tPhoneNumbers; when updating, you immediately call the save method and it.