Get file path from NSBundle in Swift

Question

I have a file stored in:

/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/083EA15E7/Documents/myFile.zip

It got there after I downloaded it from a server.

If I know the file name is myFile.zip, how can I find it with NSBundle?

Like this:

if let URL = NSBundle.mainBundle().URLForResource("myFile", withExtension: "zip") {
    // do stuff
}

currently this returns false, not sure how I can specify the whole path. Any ideas?

Answer 1

This item is not in your bundle, an item in your bundle is something that you add before compiling, such as assets, fonts etc.

iOS provides each app with a sandbox. In that sandbox, the Documents folder exists. To access files from the Documents folder try this:

let documentsURL = NSURL(
  fileURLWithPath: NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(
    .DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true).first!,
  isDirectory: true
)

To get the file, you will need to get its path and append it to the documents path like so.

let URLToMyFile = documentsURL.URLByAppendingPathComponent("MyFile.zip")

To get the path as a string you can access the path property of the URL.

print(URLToMyPath.path!)

That will print out the path of your downloaded resource.