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Class for getting and seeing file attributes in Swift
//
// MetaEditor.swift
// Developed for meditor - http://github.com/jakekara/meditor/
// Get and set file attributes
//
// Created by Jake Kara on 8/12/16.
//
import Foundation
let fileManager = NSFileManager.defaultManager()
public class MetaEditor : NSObject {
var fileUrl = ""
// Initialize with a file url
init(fileUrl : String) {
self.fileUrl = fileUrl
}
// Return the attributes of the file
func getMeta() -> NSDictionary? {
do {
let attr : NSDictionary? = try NSFileManager.defaultManager().attributesOfItemAtPath(self.fileUrl);
Swift.print (attr);
return attr;
}
catch let error as NSError {
Swift.print("Ooops! Something went wrong: \(error)")
return nil;
}
}
// Set the creation date (should have a more descriptive method name,
// but I wasn't planning on adding a modification date method initially.
func setDate(newDate:NSDate) {
do {
Swift.print ("Setting date");
try NSFileManager.defaultManager().setAttributes([
NSFileCreationDate: newDate],ofItemAtPath:self.fileUrl)
} catch {
Swift.print ("ERROR");
}
}
// Set the modification date of
func setModificationDate(newDate:NSDate) {
do {
Swift.print ("Setting date");
try NSFileManager.defaultManager().setAttributes([
NSFileModificationDate: newDate],ofItemAtPath:self.fileUrl)
} catch {
Swift.print ("ERROR");
}
}
}
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