ABPersonViewController won't show on Push

Question

So here's the scenarion, I've got a SearchController that displays filtered results from my apps list of contacts and that present in my addressbook as well.

The code that pushes the ABPersonViewController is present in my didSelectObject:atIndex method. here is the code:

TableCellClass *selectedCell= (TableCellClass *)[self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
CFArrayRef arrayOfAllPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
ABRecordRef thisPerson = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(arrayOfAllPeople,selectedCell.contactIndex);
ABPersonViewController *picker = [[ABPersonViewController alloc]init];
picker.personViewDelegate = self;
picker.displayedPerson = thisPerson;
picker.allowsEditing = YES;
[self.navigationController pushViewController:picker animated:YES];

This code block works just fine on a standard TTTableViewController, but somehow won't work on my searchController.

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Here is the screen shot by the way. So as you can see there is no NavigationController present. This is default by Three20. The cell with the addressbook icon is the Item which launches the ABPersonViewController upon tap-gesture

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 15 '11 at 09:01

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How is your searchController presented? Does it have a navigation controller?

Check that self.navigationController is not nil.

edited Nov 15 '11 at 09:01

Srikar Appalaraju

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answered Nov 15 '11 at 08:57

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Yup it holds a nil value. So how do i remedy this? Will the creation of a new navigationController disrupt the navigation mapping of Three20? – Paul John Parreno Nov 16 '11 at 01:52
Not sure about three20 but you need to get a valid pointer to the navigationController. How is it presented? – railwayparade Nov 16 '11 at 03:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '11 at 07:47

So I found a workaround to my problem.

First, I created a class that is a subclass of ABPersonViewController. Then created my own -initWithNavigatorURL:query: method.

on the TTTableViewController class that is my SearchDisplayController, inside the -didSelectObject:atIndexPath: method, i have this block of code:

TTTableItemCell *selectedCell= (TTTableItemCell *)[self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
CFArrayRef arrayOfAllPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);

ABRecordRef thisPerson = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(arrayOfAllPeople,selectedCell.contactIndex);
ABPersonViewController *picker = [[ABPersonViewController alloc]initWithNibName:nil bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
picker.personViewDelegate = self;
picker.displayedPerson = thisPerson;
picker.allowsEditing = YES;

NSNumber *allowsEditing;

if (picker.allowsEditing) {
    allowsEditing = [[NSNumber alloc]initWithInt:1];
}
else{
    allowsEditing = [[NSNumber alloc]initWithInt:0];
}

TTURLAction *urlAction = [[[TTURLAction alloc] initWithURLPath:@"tt://GJABPersonView"] autorelease];
urlAction.query = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:[NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects:self, thisPerson,allowsEditing, nil] forKeys:[NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects:@"personViewDelegate",@"displayedPerson",@"allowsEditing", nil]];
urlAction.animated = YES;
[[TTNavigator navigator] openURLAction:[urlAction applyTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromLeft]];
[allowsEditing release];

It doesn't animate like it normally does when navigating but it does the work :)

ABPersonViewController won't show on Push

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