I'm trying to open a picker with only certain file types allowed. I'm using this documentation to find the UTType I need: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uniformtypeidentifiers/uttype/system_declared_uniform_type_identifiers
But I can't find a UTType for .pages, .doc, .docx for example.
What should I do?
This is my code for the moment
func presentPickerDocument() {
//Create a picker specifying file type and mode
var supportedTypes: [UTType]
supportedTypes = [UTType.pdf, UTType.url]
let documentPicker = UIDocumentPickerViewController(forOpeningContentTypes: supportedTypes, asCopy: true)
documentPicker.delegate = self
documentPicker.allowsMultipleSelection = false
present(documentPicker, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
You can create a UTType
from a file extension like this:
UTType(tag: "pages", tagClass: .filenameExtension, conformingTo: nil)
This creates a UTType?
, as there can be no UTType
associated with the given file extension.
You can also use:
UTType(filenameExtension: "pages")
but this only finds a UTType
if the file extension inherits from public.data
, so it won't work for all the file extensions.
On macOS Terminal, you can also use the mdls
command to inspect the Uniform Type Identifier of a file
mdls -name kMDItemContentType yourFile.pages
Or its entire tree:
mdls -name kMDItemContentTypeTree yourFile.pages
After that you can create a UTType
using its identifier like this:
UTType("com.apple.iwork.pages.sffpages")