[CB-11532] Contacts EOF error on iOS

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.1
• Component/s: cordova-plugin-contacts (DEPRECATED)
• Labels: contacts ios wfc

Environment

Cordova CLI: 6.2.0
Gulp version: CLI version 3.9.0
Gulp local: Local version 3.9.1
Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.0-beta.7
Ionic CLI Version: 2.0.0-beta.32
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.0.0-beta.18
ios-deploy version: 1.8.5
ios-sim version: 4.1.1
OS: Mac OS X El Capitan
Node Version: v4.1.1
Xcode version: Xcode 7.3 Build version 7D175

• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Vladimir Kotikov
• Reporter: Phil Benoit
• Created: 04/Jul/16 09:28
• Updated: 23/Feb/17 17:46
• Resolved: 28/Oct/16 15:13

Description

When importing contacts from Google or Facebook the plugin crashes as it is not able to handle the imported characters.

The error is - Syntax error: EOF reached

Here is a list of real world contacts imported from Google that cause the issue.

Gökmen
Brûlé
França
ادوارد
Gabby ••••
Damián M.A.

I have a fix for this that has been implemented in a live app. I will be sending a pull request to the repo for review but wanted to log this incase there were others coming across the same issue.

Issue Links

• Blocked: CB-8290 Cordova contacts plugin crashes if any one has a contact name with new line chars.
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #130