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benwiggy
benwiggy

Reputation: 2719

NSURL.absoluteString returns malformed filepath

As part of testing my MacOS Document-based Swift app, I'm logging a URL with:

 NSLog(url.absoluteString)

If that URL has spaces, I get crazy results, like:

file:///Users/Ben/Desktop/Test            0.000000older/Lotti2issa(null)apientiae220Basso                   ontinuo2ooklet.pdf

Tha actual filepath is:

/Users/Ben/Desktop/Test folder/Lotti Missa Sapientiae - Basso continuo booklet.pdf

Is this just some formatting issue with absoluteString, or is a problem with my URL?

I'm not generating the URL myself: the value is coming in from AppKit, as it's the parameter in a function of NSDocument that I'm overriding.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 169

Answers (1)

vadian
vadian

Reputation: 285069

To get the path of a file system URL use always the path API. 

NSLog(url.path)

absoluteString returns a percent escaped URL string including the scheme (file://, https// etc.) and the host which is irrelevant in the file system.

Upvotes: 1

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