macOS AddressBook C API issue

[MacDonaldsd]

I am having a strange issue using the C based AddressBook API, whereby if I do a count of all the people in my address book I get a very large number. (it goes up add I add additional contacts). On a test machine I get 42 for 4 contacts. I want to get a count of all the people so I can loop through them.

	ABAddressBookRef address_book = ABGetSharedAddressBook();	
	CFArrayRef all_people = NULL;
	
	all_people = ABCopyArrayOfAllPeople(address_book);
		
	int count = CFArrayGetCount(all_people);

If I do a CFShow of the all_people array, everything looks fine. Am I doing something stupid with CFArrayGetCount() ?

 

[kainjow]

Seemed to work for me. How are you looking at count? Also, you may want to use the actual return type, which is CFIndex (signed long).

 

[robbieduncan]

Is it possible that it's copying records from groups you are not used to viewing?