how to get ekevent EKparticipant email?

Question

how to get ekevent EKparticipant email?

EKParticipant class does not have such a attribute.

Is it possible to render the native ios participants controller to show the list of participants?

Answer 1

I had this same question and when I was at WWDC this year, I asked several Apple engineers and they had no clue. I asked a guy I met in line and he had the answer:

event.organizer.URL.resourceSpecifier

This works for any EKParticipant. I was cautioned NOT to use the description field because that may change at any time.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Category for EKParticipant:

import Foundation
import EventKit
import Contacts

extension EKParticipant {
    var email: String? {
        // Try to get email from inner property
        if respondsToSelector(Selector("emailAddress")), let email = valueForKey("emailAddress") as? String {
            return email
        }

        // Getting info from description
        let emailComponents = description.componentsSeparatedByString("email = ")
        if emailComponents.count > 1 {
            let email = emailComponents[1].componentsSeparatedByString(";")[0]
            return email
        }

        // Getting email from contact
        if let contact = (try? CNContactStore().unifiedContactsMatchingPredicate(contactPredicate, keysToFetch: [CNContactEmailAddressesKey]))?.first,
            let email = contact.emailAddresses.first?.value as? String {
            return email
        }

        // Getting email from URL
        if let email = URL.resourceSpecifier where !email.hasPrefix("/") {
            return email
        }

        return nil
    }
}

Answer 3

None of the above solutions are reliable:

1. URL may be something like /xyzxyzxyzxyz.../principal and obviously that's not an email.
2. EKParticipant:description may change and not include email anymore.
3. You could send emailAddress selector to the instance but that's undocumented, may change in the future and in the meantime might get your app disapproved.

So at the end what you need to do is use EKPrincipal:ABRecordWithAddressBook and then extract email from there. Like this:

NSString *email = nil;
ABAddressBookRef book = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(nil, nil);
ABRecordRef record = [self.appleParticipant ABRecordWithAddressBook:book];
if (record) {
    ABMultiValueRef value = ABRecordCopyValue(record, kABPersonEmailProperty);
    if (value
        && ABMultiValueGetCount(value) > 0) {
        email = (__bridge id)ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(value, 0);
    }
}

Note that calling ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions is expensive so you might want to do that only once per session.

If you can't access the record, then fall back on URL.resourceSpecifier.

Answer 4

Another option might be to look up the EKParticipant's URL. The output should be a mailto URI like mailto:[email protected]. There's some sparse documentation here:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/EventKit/Reference/EKParticipantClassRef/Reference/Reference.html