Question

Consider the following code:

    ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://192.168.2.71:3000/ios_file?filename=complaint&folder=encounters&id=3"]];
NSString *mediaPath = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents"];
mediaPath = [mediaPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"complaint.MOV"];
[request setDownloadDestinationPath:mediaPath];
[request startSynchronous];
NSLog(@"Got the file!");
NSURL *theURL = [NSURL URLWithString:mediaPath];

NSLog(@"Time to Play File!");
NSLog(@"Filename is %@", [theURL absoluteString]);

BOOL fileExists = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:[theURL absoluteString]];

if (fileExists) {
    NSLog(@"THE FILE EXISTS ZOMG");
}

// Create file manager
NSError *error;
NSFileManager *fileMgr = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

// Point to Document directory
NSString *documentsDirectory = [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents"];

// Write out the contents of home directory to console
NSLog(@"Documents directory: %@", [fileMgr contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:documentsDirectory error:&error]);

Returns the following:

2011-03-30 18:29:46.107 VideoCapture[158:707] Get recording from server
2011-03-30 18:29:46.976 VideoCapture[158:707] Got the file!
2011-03-30 18:29:46.978 VideoCapture[158:707] Time to Play File!
2011-03-30 18:29:46.980 VideoCapture[158:707] Filename is /var/mobile/Applications/AE4B3091-3726-4FAE-B861-C4AE3616E743/Documents/complaint.MOV
2011-03-30 18:29:46.986 VideoCapture[158:707] Documents directory: (null)

Going to the URL in question sends me a quicktime movie (I’m using Ruby’s send_data File.read(“#{file_path}.MOV”), :disposition => ‘inline’, :type => “video/quicktime”).

As you can see, there are no files in the directory! Help!

Answer 1

Under iOS NSHomeDirectory() and the appended path isn’t the proper way to get to the Document directory and may be what’s hanging you up. Instead use something along these lines:

NSString *documentDirectory = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject];
NSString *mediaPath = [documentDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"complaint.MOV"];