Question

I have a folder structure at server side. Inside the folders there are files of all format like .txt, .pdf. I get the structure in XML format.

Now I want to create the same folder structure that is present in server side at my iphone documents folder with only the names of files inside it and not the content of the files.

eg:
folder1

    1.text(it is inside folder1)

folder2

    2.pdf(it is inside folder2)

folder3

   subFolder3 (it is inside folder3)
                          3.txt (it is inside subFolder3)

folder4

    4.txt

How I need to handle the overall approach.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

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Answer 1

1. To get the path to the documents directory, do this:

   NSString *documentsDirectory;
   NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains
                   (NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
   if ([paths count] > 0)  {
       documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
   }
   

2. For each of your subdirectories and files you can use -[NSString stringByAppendingPathComponent:] to construct the path.

3. To create each directory use -[NSFileManager createDirectoryAtPath:withIntermediateDirectories:attributes:error:].

4. To create each file use -[NSFileManager createFileAtPath:contents:attributes:], passing [NSData data] as the contents to create an empty file.