iOS8 extension NSItemProvider UIImage to ALAsset via ALAssetsLibrary

Question

I have a share extension that supports images. Everything is working and I get the image from the item provider like so:

if([imageItemProvider hasItemConformingToTypeIdentifier:(NSString *)kUTTypeImage])
{
    [imageItemProvider loadItemForTypeIdentifier:(NSString *)kUTTypeImage options:nil completionHandler:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error)
     {
         if(image)
         {
             // do smth with the image here
         }
     }];
}

The issue is I'd like to access the image info via ALAssetsLibrary, and I don't have its URL since the loadItemForTypeIdentifier returns an UIImage directly. Any idea how to grab the image URL?

Answer 1

Change [imageItemProvider loadItemForTypeIdentifier:(NSString *)kUTTypeImage options:nil completionHandler:^(UIImage *image, NSError *error)

to

[imageItemProvider loadItemForTypeIdentifier:(NSString *)kUTTypeImage options:nil completionHandler:^(NSURL *url, NSError *error)

Notice the completion handler argument type. This will return to you the url that you are looking for.