searchElement(forProperty:label:key:value:comparison:)

Declaration

class func searchElement(forProperty property: String!, label: String!, key: String!, value: Any!, comparison: ABSearchComparison) -> ABSearchElement!

Parameters

• property:

  The name of the property to search on. It cannot be nil. For a full list of the properties, see Default Record Properties and Default Group Properties.

• label:

  The label name for a multivalue list. If property does not have multiple values, pass nil. If property does have multiple values, pass nil to search all the values. By default, ABGroup records don’t contain any multivalue list properties.

• key:

  The key name for a dictionary. Pass nil if property is not a dictionary. If property is a dictionary, pass nil to search all keys. By default, ABGroup records don’t contain any properties that are dictionaries.

• value:

  What you’re searching for. If nil, the only supported value for comparison is kABEqual or kABNotEqual.

• comparison:

  The type of comparison to perform and is an Absearchcomparison, such as kABEqual or kABPrefixMatchCaseInsensitive.