Question

Hi i want to show the received bytes in the console.

  (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data {
 [receivedData appendData:data];
 NSNumber *resourceLength = [NSNumber numberWithUnsignedInteger:[receivedData length]];
    NSLog(@"resourceData length: %d ", [resourceLength intValue]);
 if (file)  { 
        [file seekToEndOfFile];
    } 
 [file writeData:data]; 
}

the file successfully downloads and safed it into docoument dir but the nslog show always
resourceData length: 0

receivedata is NSMutableData *receivedData; in the .h file

the strange thing is that the exceptedbytes work well. here the code for that:

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection )connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse)response {
 localFilename = [[[url2 absoluteString] lastPathComponent] copy];
 NSLog(localFilename); 
 NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
 NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0] ; 
    NSString *appFile = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:localFilename]; 
    [[NSFileManager defaultManager] createFileAtPath:appFile contents:nil attributes:nil];


expectedBytes = [response expectedContentLength];
 NSLog(@"content-length: %lli Bytes", expectedBytes);
 file = [[NSFileHandle fileHandleForUpdatingAtPath:appFile] retain];

if (file)   {

    [file seekToEndOfFile];
}

}

can somebody help me. i really dont know what i am doing wrong
kind regards
tammo
												

Answer 1

Have you allocated and initialised receivedData? One usually does

receivedData = [[NSMutableData data] retain];

right after creating an NSURLConnection instance, and then

[receivedData setLength:0];

upon receiving a response via -connection:didReceiveResponse:, and

[receivedData appendData:data];

upon receiving data via -connection:didReceiveData:. This is exemplified in the URL Loading System Programming Guide. If you haven’t instantiated receivedData, it is probably nil and [receivedData length] returns 0 in that case.