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reusing security scoped bookmark


In my app, I would like to access local file directory with security-scoped bookmark.

As mentioned in App Sandbox Design Guide, I store my user's specified folder (NSOpenPanel) in security-scoped bookmark (as NSData).

However, I find URLByResolvingBookmarkData is no longer available in Swift. I have no idea how can I access the url and grant the permission to the directory I previously chosen after relaunching my app. Any ideas?

/// OpenPanel and set the folderPath
var folderPath: NSURL? {
    didSet {
        do {
            let bookmark = try folderPath?.bookmarkDataWithOptions(.SecurityScopeAllowOnlyReadAccess, includingResourceValuesForKeys: nil, relativeToURL: nil)

        } catch  {
            print("Set bookMark fails")
        }
    }
}

Solution

  • I figured it out with NSUserDefaults.

    var userDefault = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
    var folderPath: NSURL? {
        didSet {
            do {
                let bookmark = try folderPath?.bookmarkDataWithOptions(.SecurityScopeAllowOnlyReadAccess, includingResourceValuesForKeys: nil, relativeToURL: nil)
                userDefault.setObject(bookmark, forKey: "bookmark")
            } catch let error as NSError {
                print("Set Bookmark Fails: \(error.description)")
            }
        }
    }
    
    func applicationDidFinishLaunching(aNotification: NSNotification) {
        if let bookmarkData = userDefault.objectForKey("bookmark") as? NSData {
            do {
                let url = try NSURL.init(byResolvingBookmarkData: bookmarkData, options: .WithoutUI, relativeToURL: nil, bookmarkDataIsStale: nil)
                url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource()
            } catch let error as NSError {
                print("Bookmark Access Fails: \(error.description)")
            }
        }
    }