{"id":1313,"date":"2012-06-30T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T22:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2015-04-07T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:49:25","slug":"finding-directories-in-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Finding Directories in iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I created a Utilities singleton to keep things I refer to often. These are the methods I use for referring to directories.
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\n#pragma mark - Application's Documents directory\n\/\/ Directory locations\n+ (NSString *)applicationCachesDirectory {\n    return [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject];\n}\n\n+ (NSString *)applicationDocumentsDirectory {\n    return [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject];\n}\n\n+ (NSString *)applicationLibraryDirectory {\n    \n    return [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSLibraryDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject];\n}\n<\/code><\/pre><\/p>\n
Here’s one for retrieving the contents of a file stored in the Caches Directory. Notice how it uses [self applicationCachesDirectory] to get the location of the directory.
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\n\/\/ Cached files for results\n+ (NSString *)cachedFilePath:(NSString *)fileName {\n    NSString *pathComponent = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@.txt",fileName];\n    NSString *filePath = [[self applicationCachesDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent:pathComponent];\n    return filePath;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre><\/p>\n
If I want to store the results in the Documents directory, I’ll use this to construct the path.
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\n        NSString *resultsFilePath = [ [Utilities applicationDocumentsDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent:[self formattedHTMLFileName:@"Results"] ];\n<\/code><\/pre><\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a slightly more complicated example where I retrieve the contents of a cached file. Note that it makes use of cachedFilePath:fileName<\/i> as described above.
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\n+ (NSString *)cachedFileContents:(NSString *)fileName {\n    NSStringEncoding encoding; NSError* error = nil;\n    NSString *text = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:[self cachedFilePath:fileName] usedEncoding:&encoding error:&error];\n    return text;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre><\/p>\n
Here\u2019s another example. This time I\u2019m loading a string with the contents of the FullResults file.<\/p>\n
\n NSStringEncoding encoding;\n    NSError* error = nil;\n    NSString *resultsText = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:[Utilities cachedFilePath:@"FullResults"] usedEncoding:&encoding error:&error];\n<\/code><\/pre><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I created a Utilities singleton to keep things I refer to often. These are the methods I use for referring to directories. #pragma mark – Application's Documents directory \/\/ Directory locations + (NSString *)applicationCachesDirectory {     return [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject]; } + (NSString *)applicationDocumentsDirectory {     return [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject]; } + (NSString *)applicationLibraryDirectory { … Continue reading Finding Directories in iOS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellgolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}