Using HTML and Local Images Within UIWebView

Question

I have a UIWebView in my app which I want to use to display an image which will link to another url.

I'm using

<img src="image.jpg" /> to load the image.

The problem is that the image doesn't load (ie. it can't be found) even though it's added as a resource in my project and is copied into the bundle.

I've tried using NSBundle to get the full path of the image and using that and it still doesn't show up in the web view.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

My complex solution (or tutorial) for rss-feed (get in RSSItems) works only on device:

#define CACHE_DIR       [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject]

for (RSSItem *item in _dataSource) {

    url = [NSURL URLWithString:[item link]];
    request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
    [request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];

    [NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request
                                       queue:queue
                           completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response, NSData *data, NSError *error) {

                               @autoreleasepool {

                                   if (!error) {

                                       NSString *html = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data
                                                                              encoding:NSWindowsCP1251StringEncoding];

                                       {
                                           NSError *error = nil;

                                           HTMLParser *parser = [[HTMLParser alloc] initWithString:html error:&error];

                                           if (error) {
                                               NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
                                               return;
                                           }

                                           HTMLNode *bodyNode = [parser body];

                                           NSArray *spanNodes = [bodyNode findChildTags:@"div"];

                                           for (HTMLNode *spanNode in spanNodes) {
                                               if ([[spanNode getAttributeNamed:@"class"] isEqualToString:@"page"]) {

                                                   NSString *absStr = [[response URL] absoluteString];
                                                   for (RSSItem *anItem in _dataSource)
                                                       if ([absStr isEqualToString:[anItem link]]){

                                                           NSArray *spanNodes = [bodyNode findChildTags:@"img"];
                                                           for (HTMLNode *spanNode in spanNodes){
                                                               NSString *imgUrl = [spanNode getAttributeNamed:@"src"];
                                                               if (imgUrl){
                                                                   [anItem setImage:imgUrl];
                                                                   break;
                                                               }
                                                           }

                                                           [anItem setHtml:[spanNode rawContents]];
                                                           [self subProcessRSSItem:anItem];
                                                       }
                                               }
                                           }

                                           [parser release];
                                       }

                                       if (error) {
                                           NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
                                           return;
                                       }

                                       [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:notification_updateDatasource
                                                                                           object:self
                                                                                         userInfo:nil];

                                   }else
                                       NSLog(@"Error",[error userInfo]);
                               }
                           }];

and

- (void)subProcessRSSItem:(RSSItem*)item{

NSString *html = [item html];
if (html) {

    html = [html stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"<div class=\"clear\"></div>"
                                           withString:@""];

    html = [html stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"<p class=\"link\">"
                                           withString:@""];

    html = [html stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"<div class=\"page\">"
                                           withString:@""];

    html = [html stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"</div>"
                                           withString:@""];

    NSArray *array1 = [html componentsSeparatedByString:@"<a"];
    if ([array1 count]==2) {
        NSArray *array2 = [html componentsSeparatedByString:@"a>"];

        html = [[array1 objectAtIndex:0] stringByAppendingString:[array2 objectAtIndex:1]];
    }

    NSURL *url;
    NSString *fileName;
    NSString *filePath;
    BOOL success;
    if ([item image]) {

        url = [NSURL URLWithString:
                      [hostString stringByAppendingString:[item image]]];
        NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];

        fileName = [[[url relativePath] componentsSeparatedByString:@"/"] lastObject];

        filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@",
                              CACHE_DIR,
                              fileName];

        //save image locally
        success = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] createFileAtPath:filePath
                                                               contents:imageData
                                                             attributes:nil];

        //replace links
        html = [html stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:[item image]
                                               withString:filePath];

        [item setImage:fileName];

        //Передадим обновление интерфейса, снабдив индексом обновляемой ячейки
        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:notification_updateRow
                                                            object:self
                                                          userInfo:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:@([_dataSource indexOfObject:item])
                                                                                               forKey:@"row"]];
    }

    //finalize html
    html = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html><body>%@</body></html>",html];

    fileName = [[[item link] componentsSeparatedByString:@"/"] lastObject];
    filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@",
                CACHE_DIR,
                fileName];
    success = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] createFileAtPath:filePath
                                                      contents:[html dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]
                                                    attributes:nil];

    [item setHtml:
     (success)?filePath:nil];//for direct download in other case
}

}

on View controller

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated{

RSSItem *item = [[DataSingleton sharedSingleton] selectedRSSItem];

NSString* htmlString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:[item html]
                                                 encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:CACHE_DIR];

[_webView loadHTMLString:htmlString
                 baseURL:baseURL];

}

rss item class

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface RSSItem : NSObject

@property(nonatomic,retain) NSString *title;
@property(nonatomic,retain) NSString *link;
@property(nonatomic,retain) NSString *guid;
@property(nonatomic,retain) NSString *category;
@property(nonatomic,retain) NSString *description;
@property(nonatomic,retain) NSString *pubDate;
@property(nonatomic,retain) NSString *html;
@property(nonatomic,retain) NSString *image;
@end

part of any html with image

<html><body>
<h2>blah-blahTC One Tab 7</h2>
<p>blah-blah НТС One.</p>
<p><img width="600" height="412" alt="" src="/Users/wins/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.0/Applications/2EAD8889-6482-48D4-80A7-9CCFD567123B/Library/Caches/htc-one-tab-7-concept-1(1).jpg"><br><br>
blah-blah (Hasan Kaymak) blah-blah HTC One Tab 7, blah-blah HTC One. <br><br>
blah-blah
 microSD.<br><br>
blah-blah Wi-Fi to 4G LTE.</p>
</p>
</body></html>

image saved for name htc-one-tab-7-concept-1(1).jpg