I'm trying to provide a user selection of an image from Photo Library. Thus I'm using UIImagePickerController for selecting. But here comes an issue with getting its initial URL in the file system (I need this for CKAsset).
My code.
func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [NSObject : AnyObject]) {
let imageURL = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as NSURL
let path = imageURL.path!
let imageName = path.lastPathComponent
let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)
let documentDirectory = paths.first as String!
let localPath = documentDirectory + "/" + imageName
let imageData = NSData(contentsOfFile: localPath)!
let image = UIImage(data: imageData)!
picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}
imageURL is kinda cryptic. It describes Asset URL, but not one in File System. And it looks like: assets-library://asset/asset.JPG?id=B6C0A21C-07C3-493D-8B44-3BA4C9981C25&ext=JPG.
According to this logic the path is /asset.JPG where asset.JPG is a name of the image.
Then I'm accessing my Documents folder and trying to find there a file with path:
/Users/Eugene/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/3C5E9A23-8220-4B37-BD14-F1E42EEC2C7C/data/Containers/Data/Application/20EBAAE2-6C6F-4651-A48F-16A222CCB3A2/Documents/asset.JPG
Cryptic as well but seems to be a real path for a not existing image... No image with that path can be found. And this makes me sick.
Do I have to save an image from the beginning? Or is there any other way to go?
I've looked through several tutorials using AssetsLibrary API but I didn't find anything useful to solve my problem. Thank you in advance!
Okay, I've solved the issue.
All you have to do is simply grab the image (info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as UIImage) and save to the given directory. If you need to save only 1 picture it works great. The code id below.
func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [NSObject : AnyObject]) {
let imageURL = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as NSURL
let imageName = imageURL.path!.lastPathComponent
let documentDirectory = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true).first as String
let localPath = documentDirectory.stringByAppendingPathComponent(imageName)
let image = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as UIImage
let data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)
data.writeToFile(localPath, atomically: true)
let imageData = NSData(contentsOfFile: localPath)!
let photoURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: localPath)
let imageWithData = UIImage(data: imageData)!
picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}