XLSX File is not Read from documentPicker about corexlsx

[MaxDesiatov]

Could you also share more details about this behavior? What do you mean by "file is not read"? Is an error thrown in the code that you're catching? Does it trigger any of the fatalError or print conditions? Have you stepped through the code with the debugger to pinpoint the exact line at fault?

[tburnt]

Could you also share more details about this behavior? What do you mean by "file is not read"? Is an error thrown in the code that you're catching? Does it trigger any of the fatalError or print conditions? Have you stepped through the code with the debugger to pinpoint the exact line at fault?

it triggers fatalError before I added startAccessingSecurityScopedResource
fatalError("excel file is corrupted")
when I added it as the solution from #160 it triggers the print statement
print("failed accessing security scope")

[MaxDesiatov]

In your code from the description, you're assigning a path URL passed by the document picker as let filepath = url.path and never using it again, then you're trying to read from a new directory looked up by NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains. I'm not sure I understand how a document picker is relevant here if you're not reading anything from a path provided by it.

[tburnt]

Originally this is what I did

                    let url = urls[0]
                    let filePath = url.path
                   
                    guard url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() else {
                        print("failed accessing security scope")
                        return
                        
                    }
                    defer { url.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() }
                    
                    guard let file = XLSXFile(filepath: filePath) else {
                        fatalError("XLSX file at \(filePath) is corrupted or does not exist")
                    }

However it did not work so the next thing I tried was copy it to NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains

The aim of the code is to pick an excel file from the document picker and read it but I had no luck in getting it to work

[MaxDesiatov]

And in this original code, which exact line was bailing out, url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() or XLSXFile(filepath: filePath)?

[tburnt]

url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource()

[MaxDesiatov]

Have you tried following this SO page? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41144992/startaccessingsecurityscopedresource-return-always-false

According to it, startAccessingSecurityScopedResource may return false when the file is not secured, but it may still be readable.

[MaxDesiatov]

Hi @tburnt, is this issue still reproducible for you?