Applescript Group attribute returns "missing value"

[ecsherwo]

In the latest beta version of adium it appears that the ability to pull a users contact group is broken and always returns "missing value"

tell application "Adium" to get the group of contact "username"

Result: missing value

tell application "Adium" to get properties of the contact "username"

Result: {image:missing value, name:"username", id:"Jabber.username.com", account:account id 11 of service "Jabber" of application "Adium", idle time:10, group:missing value, class:contact, notes:missing value, status type:away, status message:"Away", blocked:false, display name:"User Name"}

If I downgrade to 1.3.5, this begins to work again and the correct group name is returned.

[ecsherwo]

Other notes:

Using OS X 10.5.8 This issue affects all my different IM accounts, which include: sametime and jabber.

There are multiple different machines and accounts here that I have recreated this on.

[zacw]

This is very likely caused by the fact that there no longer exists one group for a given contact. The AS dictionary should be updated to return a nondeterminate group for this query or not support it, and the overall groups array should be provide.

[Zachary West <zacw@…>]

(In  e7db526620d1) Add a "groups" property to contacts, removing the "group" property. Fixes #12822.

AppleScript appears to not use KVC things, so "cocoa key = groups.allObjects" doesn't work, so a helper method was necessary. Lame.