Question

I’m building an app that allows users to drop videos onto it. Given a list of dropped NSURL*s how do I make sure each one conforms to the public.movie UTI type?

If I had an NSOpenPanel, I would just use openPanel.allowedFileTypes = @[@"public.movie"]; and Cocoa would take care of it for me.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This should work:

NSWorkspace *workspace = [NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace];

for (NSURL *url in urls) {
    NSString *type;
    NSError *error;
    if ([url getResourceValue:&type forKey:NSURLTypeIdentifierKey error:&error]) {
        if ([workspace type:type conformsToType:@"public.movie"]) {
            // the URL points to a movie; do stuff here
        }
    } else {
        // handle error
    }
}

(You can also use UTTypeConformsTo() instead of the NSWorkspace method.)