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Hedge
Hedge

Reputation: 16748

Best location to store config, plugins for my OS X application

I'm programming an OS X application and would like to know what is considered to be the best location to store application data like config-files and plugins for my program into.

The configs aren't in defaults format since I also deploy this application on Windows.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 59

Answers (1)

Garrett
Garrett

Reputation: 5630

Usually in your app's subfolder within the Application Support directory is where stuff like is expected to be stored. Apple provides a nice function in their documentation for getting a standardized NSURL for your Application Support directory.

Extracted from their documentation:

- (NSURL*)applicationDirectory
{
    NSString* bundleID = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier];
    NSFileManager*fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
    NSURL*    dirPath = nil;

    // Find the application support directory in the home directory.
    NSArray* appSupportDir = [fm URLsForDirectory:NSApplicationSupportDirectory
                                inDomains:NSUserDomainMask];
    if ([appSupportDir count] > 0)
    {
        // Append the bundle ID to the URL for the
        // Application Support directory
        dirPath = [[appSupportDir objectAtIndex:0] URLByAppendingPathComponent:bundleID];

        // If the directory does not exist, this method creates it.
        // This method is only available in OS X v10.7 and iOS 5.0 or later.
        NSError*    theError = nil;
        if (![fm createDirectoryAtURL:dirPath withIntermediateDirectories:YES
                   attributes:nil error:&theError])
        {
            // Handle the error.

            return nil;
        }
    }

    return dirPath;
}

You can call the subpath within NSApplicationDirectory anything you want, but they recommend using your bundle identifier, as seen in the example above.

Upvotes: 1

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