Here's a NSCoding compliant object. I would like to save and recover it from the app's documents directory in Swift 3. I imagine it's a save method and recover method. How is this done?
import Foundation
class Book: NSObject, NSCoding {
var title: String
var author: String
var pageCount: Int
var categories: [String]
var available: Bool
init(title:String, author: String, pageCount:Int, categories:[String],available:Bool) {
self.title = title
self.author = author
self.pageCount = pageCount
self.categories = categories
self.available = available
}
// MARK: NSCoding
required convenience init?(coder: NSCoder) {
let title = coder.decodeObject(forKey: "title") as! String
let author = coder.decodeObject(forKey: "author")as! String
let categories = coder.decodeObject(forKey: "categories") as! [String]
let available = coder.decodeBool(forKey: "available")
let pageCount = coder.decodeInteger(forKey: "pageCount")
self.init(title:title, author:author,pageCount:pageCount,categories: categories,available:available)
}
func encode(with: NSCoder) {
with.encode(self.title, forKey: "title")
with.encode(self.author, forKey: "author")
with.encode(Int32(self.pageCount), forKey: "pageCount")
with.encode(self.categories, forKey: "categories")
with.encode(self.available, forKey: "available")
}
}
Thank You!
Saving:
// Get documents directory
if let docs = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true).first {
// Append your file name to the directory path
let path = (docs as NSString).appendingPathComponent("filename")
// Archive your object to a file at that path
NSKeyedArchiver.archiveRootObject(yourObject, toFile: path)
}
Loading:
// Get documents directory
if let docs = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true).first {
// Append your file name to the directory path
let path = (docs as NSString).appendingPathComponent("filename")
// Unarchive your object from the file
let yourObject = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(withFile: path) as? Book
// do whatever with yourObject
}
Here's the same design using guard statements.
import UIKit
import MediaPlayer
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let book = Book(title: "Atlas Shrugged", author: "Ayn Rand", pageCount: 10, categories: ["Ethics"], available: true)
save(object: book, filename: "Bookshelf")
let atlasShrugged = retrieve(filename: "Bookshelf") as! Book
print("\(atlasShrugged.title) by \(atlasShrugged.author)")
}
func save(object:NSObject ,filename:String){
//build filepath in doc directory
guard let docs = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true).first else { return }
let path = (docs as NSString).appendingPathComponent(filename)
//save object to path in docs
NSKeyedArchiver.archiveRootObject(object, toFile: path)
}
func retrieve(filename:String) -> AnyObject? {
// Get documents directory
guard let docs = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true).first else { return nil }
//build path to file
let path = (docs as NSString).appendingPathComponent(filename)
//Unarchive from doc directory
let object = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(withFile: path) as? Book
return object
}