[Adium-devl] Calling -formattedUID on AIMetacontact returns nil

[Colin Barrett]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:54 AM, George Armah wrote:

> Hello Adium-devs,
> as the subject of the email and the following comment from
> AIMetaContact.m indicate ,
> for a metaContact, "//FormattedUID will return nil if we have multiple
> different UIDs contained within us".
>
> This is causing a window to fail to display in my plugin if a user
> selects a metaContact.
> I wanted to know if there was any special reason for the above  
> behavior.

You should probably get the formatted UID of the preferred contact  
yourself. I think this behavior is fairly reasonable -- there is no  
definitive formatted UID for an AIMetaContact like this, it shouldn't  
return one.

Any reason you can't just do what you suggested in below in your own  
code?

(Really, David should just hurry up and finish rewriting  
AIContactController ;)

-Colin