Document Directory about ezswiftextensions

[Esqarrouth]

I haven't seen that in the code base except a small part where its commented out?

[piv199]

Well, sorry, I haven't understand a bit.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24055146/how-to-find-nsdocumentdirectory-in-swift

The first link found searching 'swift get documents directory'. If you need to get a url to your application document's directory you need to write NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)[0].

Many of users who need to write something onto disk or read from it - create an extension for this boilerplate code. Also this code returns a String, not NSURL. So let doc = NSURL(string: NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)[0]) the whole crap.

Even if you create a project with CoreData, Apple creates a method that do the same, returns the path to document's directory.

[Esqarrouth]

Would this work for both ios and osx?

[piv199]

@goktugyil Yes we could do this both for iOS and OS X

[Esqarrouth]

Sounds good in that case

[piv199]

I'll add it

[piv199]

@goktugyil

Have 3 different ideas what to do
The first is to add methods to NSFileManager instance, it's clear and everybody can remember it

let fileManager = NSFileManager.defaultManager()
fileManager.path(.Documents) -> String
fileManager.url(.Documents) -> NSURL

The second one is to add to NSURL and String, but not the best solution I think

NSURL.directory(.Documents)
String.path(.Documents)

The third is to create a separate class and give it some necessary methods (like enumerate files, has file, create/remove file). So something similar to NSFileManager (just call its methods). But it might be out of scope for EZSwiftExtensions, thus it's not an extension.

Directory(.Documents) -> Directory
Directory(url: NSURL) -> Directory
Directory(path: String) -> Directory

Or do anybody have some ideas how to implement it in the right way?

[Esqarrouth]

I haven't checked but probably there are other good open source libraries that work on this. Most likely they will seem like no3. How about getting ideas and features from there and implement them like no1?

[lfarah]

@goktugyil any updates on this?

[Esqarrouth]

@lfarah I didn't have a chance to work with documents in a long time and not familiar enough with the current conventions.

https://github.com/goktugyil/EZSwiftExtensions/blob/4a66ff4ae759cdfdde599cdf98a60da8d1145823/EZSwiftExtensionsTests/NSURLTests.swift

Also some commented code here.

[piv199]

Okay, so we need to add base functionality for directory, and if more advanced than use special library...