Adding "getContactsVcard" method to APAddressBook

Pod/Core/APAddressBook.h

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 + (void)requestAccess:(void (^)(BOOL granted, NSError * error))completionBlock;
 + (void)requestAccessOnQueue:(dispatch_queue_t)queue
                   completion:(void (^)(BOOL granted, NSError * error))completionBlock;
++ (NSString *)getContactsVcard:(NSArray *)contacts withImage:(BOOL)copyImage;
 
 - (void)loadContacts:(void (^)(NSArray *contacts, NSError *error))completionBlock;
 - (void)loadContactsOnQueue:(dispatch_queue_t)queue

Pod/Core/APAddressBook.m

@@ -95,6 +95,62 @@ + (void)requestAccessOnQueue:(dispatch_queue_t)queue
 
 }
 
++ (NSString *)getContactsVcard:(NSArray *)contacts withImage:(BOOL)copyImage
+{
+    if (contacts.count == 0) {
+        return @"";
+    }
+
+    for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < contacts.count; i++){
+        if (![contacts[i] isKindOfClass:[APContact class]]) {
+            [NSException raise:@"Invalid type of object" format:@"input array object is not of 'APContact' type"];
+        }
+    }
+
+    NSMutableArray *naitiveContacts = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
+    for (APContact *contact in contacts){
+        [naitiveContacts addObject:contact.originalABRecord];
+    }
+
+    CFDataRef vcards = (CFDataRef)ABPersonCreateVCardRepresentationWithPeople((__bridge CFArrayRef)(naitiveContacts));
+    NSString *vcardString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:(__bridge NSData *)vcards encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
+
+    if (copyImage) {
+        return vcardString;
+    }
+
+    return [self removeImageFromVcardString:vcardString];
+}
+
++ (NSString *)removeImageFromVcardString:(NSString*)vcard
+{
+    NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:vcard];
+    NSString *text = nil;
+
+    NSString *photo = @"PHOTO";
+    NSString *endVcard = @"END:VCARD";
+    NSString *socialProfile = @"X-SOCIALPROFILE";
+
+    if ([vcard rangeOfString:@"X-SOCIALPROFILE"].location == NSNotFound) {
+        while ([scanner isAtEnd] == NO) {
+            [scanner scanUpToString:photo intoString:NULL] ;
+            [scanner scanUpToString:endVcard intoString:&text] ;
+            vcard = [vcard stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:
+                          [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", text] withString:@""];
+        }
+    }else{
+        while ([scanner isAtEnd] == NO) {
+            [scanner scanUpToString:photo intoString:NULL] ;
+            [scanner scanUpToString:socialProfile intoString:&text] ;
+            [scanner scanUpToString:endVcard intoString:NULL];
+            vcard = [vcard stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:
+                          [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", text] withString:@""];
+        }
+    }
+
+    return vcard;
+}
+
 - (void)loadContacts:(void (^)(NSArray *contacts, NSError *error))completionBlock
 {
     [self loadContactsOnQueue:dispatch_get_main_queue() completion:completionBlock];

Pod/Core/APContact.h

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 @property (nonatomic, readonly) NSArray *socialProfiles;
 @property (nonatomic, readonly) NSString *note;
 @property (nonatomic, readonly) NSArray *linkedRecordIDs;
+@property (nonatomic, readonly) ABRecordRef originalABRecord;
 
 - (id)initWithRecordRef:(ABRecordRef)recordRef fieldMask:(APContactField)fieldMask;
 

Pod/Core/APContact.m

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ - (id)initWithRecordRef:(ABRecordRef)recordRef fieldMask:(APContactField)fieldMa
     self = [super init];
     if (self)
     {
+	// Preserve original ABAddressBook record for future use (like generating vCard)
+        _originalABRecord = recordRef;
         _fieldMask = fieldMask;
         if (fieldMask & APContactFieldFirstName)
         {