NSURL from string not working

Question

Wrote a method to extract zip files in a temp folder and have made such that all the method in class are initiated with NSURL than path but when tried to change path to NSURL it returns null.

//handles all ZIP Extraction -(NSURL*)handleZIPExtractionAtDestination:(NSURL*)destinationURL { NSString *destPath=[[destinationURL path] stringByAppendingPathComponent: [[[_archiveURL lastPathComponent] componentsSeparatedByString:@"."] firstObject]]; BOOL result=[SSZipArchive unzipFileAtPath:[_archiveURL path] toDestination:destPath]; if(!result) { NSLog(@"Couldn't extract the Files."); return nil; } NSLog(@"%@",destPath); NSURL *url=[NSURL URLWithString:destPath]; NSLog(@"%@",url); return url; }

Result:

destPath=/private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/43DB7D13-9999-4231-B8AB-885CF8757931/tmp/715F6E97-968B-4FD9-A517-D9C2320A85A3-3213-0000043B8B4AFD91/900156_d378ef9fe1 2

url=null

destPath uses NSTemporaryDirectory with globallyUniqueString from NSProcessInfo

There's no price for using the smallest number of lines of code. Use some intermediate variables so you have a chance of checking where your code goes wrong. And your code handles file extensions wrong. — gnasher729
– gnasher729, Commented Mar 18, 2016 at 8:57
Look through the documentation which methods for handling file paths there are, and use them. For example initFileURLWithPath, not URLWithString. — gnasher729
– gnasher729, Commented Mar 18, 2016 at 8:59
thanks man. what do you mean by code handles file extensions wrong? — hengecyche
– hengecyche, Commented Mar 18, 2016 at 9:41

ChintaN -Maddy- Ramani · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-18 08:34:55Z

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NSURL *fileURL = [[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath:filePath];

try this

edited Mar 18, 2016 at 8:34

ChintaN -Maddy- Ramani

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answered Mar 18, 2016 at 7:52

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Taj Ahmed · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-18 07:38:16Z

Result is null because your destPath variable holds relative url path not complete url.for NSURL you need complete path like http://web.com/you/file/path.html if you want local path then it should be something like file:///path/to/your/file.html

just append file:/// before your destPath variable then it should work

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