I have an IOS project with html file resources shown in a webview. These html files have different sections which correspond to fragments (eg, index.html#section1, index.html#section2), which I would like to load in the webview. Unfortunately using [NSURL fileURLWithPath:url] does not work with fragments. The # is converted to %23 in the url, and the file is not found. If I use the [NSURL URLWithString:url] method, it works, but this method cannot load local resources.
Is there a way to have the webview load the local resource url with the fragment?
As you have noticed, this seems to be impossible for file URLs, but you could use a workaround if you don't mind:
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:#"window.location.hash = '#section2';"];
It's not obvious how Apple intended this sort of navigation to be triggered. There might be several ways to do it, but this one does the trick for me:
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:#"/full/path/to/index.html"];
NSString *fragment = #"#section1";
url = [NSURL URLWithString:fragment relativeToURL:url];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webView loadRequest:request];
Related
I have a problem with a WebView. I'm loading an Html String into a web view. As base URL I need to use my site URL (because there are some relative link inside the html and I cannot modify it).
The problem is that I also need to use some images and css that are stored inside the Application bundle.
So I'm creating a reference to the local resource using this code (the result string is used as src in html file):
NSString *cssUrl = [NSString stringWithString:#"file:"];
cssUrl = [cssUrl stringByAppendingString:[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]];
cssUrl = [cssUrl stringByAppendingString:#"/story.css"];
Then I've also added:
cssUrl = [cssUrl stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"/" withString:#"//"];
cssUrl = [cssUrl stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#"%20"];
Any idea how to solve the problem and how to create a reference to a file that can be used inside a web view?
Thanks
Francesco
First, import a directory, e.g. one called web, into your project where all the files reside. Make sure you select "Create Group References For Any Folders" when Xcode asks you.
Now you can load your initial string like this after putting it into a file inside web, say index.html:
NSString* path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:
#"index" ofType:#"html" inDirectory:#"web"];
if (path)
[self.webView loadRequest:
[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path]]];
Now all relative source URLs in your string will work as expected, including <img>, <a> etc.
How about this?
NSString *resourcePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"story" ofType:#"css"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:resourcePath];
NSString *theMagicalURLString = [url absoluteString];
It seems that what I was trying to do it's not possible. To use the bundled resource you have to set the base URL of your web view to the resource path.
Thanks to everyone for your help
Francesco
I am using search place API in my application ,its working fine.
But in Place API , am passing parameters map center coordinates and radius with API KEY.
its giving response. But,if i want to search any location whether its region visible in screen or not as in in-built map application . How should i go for this?is there any different query or API for achieving it ?
Right now , am using below query.
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/search/json?location=%f,%f&radius=50000&types=&name=%#&sensor=false&key=aaaaaaaaaa",mapView.centerCoordinate.latitude,mapView.centerCoordinate.longitude,searchPlace.text]];
NSURLRequest *request = [[NSURLRequest alloc]initWithURL:url];
NSURLConnection *connect;
connect = [[NSURLConnection alloc]initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
thank you very much.
NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=%#&output=csv",[searchPlace.text stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
you can try this... may be it's help you...
I have a zip file. In that zip file I have some ppt presentation.
I want to show that ppt presentation in my UIWebView.
I cannot extract and show ppt files there directly .
How do I access the ppt inside the zip in objective c?
This isnt easy. You might want to consider doing this another way. For example you could put the file unzipped on a server and open the link in a webview.
However, if you really want to do it this way there is 2 step.
1. Unzip the file.
You want end up with NSData. Read though some of the links suggested in the comments. You will need to use a 3rd party library to achieve this.
2. Load the data in to a UIWebView.
Write the NSData to the temp directory then point the UIWebView at it.
NSString *path = // .. Get a location in the NSTemporaryDirectory
if ([pptData writeToFile:path atomically:YES])
{
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webview loadRequest:request];
}
I am using NSData to get content from a URL (RSS feed) and then parse it. While most of the URLs are loaded fine, some of them don't return any data.
These URLs open on the web so I know they are valid, but they just don't return any NSData. One such URL - feed://jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/rss/rovers.xml
Here's how I am using it (the NSURL object is formed properly)
NSURL *feedURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[myUrl stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:feedURL];
Any ideas why?
Thanks a lot.
Switch to NSURLConnection so you have some delegate methods to watch what's happening in debugger. check out the URL Loading System docs if you haven't.
I've looked EVERYWHERE for this, can't find anything. I basically need to store an entire website inside of my iPhone for some interesting reasons. Regardless I can't figure out how to display it correctly in my UIWebView.
EDIT: I should clarify, I can load the original HTML file, and I have chagned all of the pathing to be local, except nothing gets linked in.
Here is the code
self.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink;
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"index" ofType:#"html"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[self loadRequest:request];
index.html has a bunch of <script type="text/javascript" src="somescript.js">
None of the JS code gets executed
Looks like you're loading the HTML from inside your bundle. This means that all the additional files (.js, .css, and any media files) also need to be present in your bundle. So the first thing to check is to look inside the contents of your executable and make sure the js, etc. files are included.
If that looks fine the next thing to check is if the html, js, or css files reference content via relative or absolute URLs. If there's an absolute path reference in the web content then UIWebView is going to try to download that content each time so it'll only work when you have a net connection. If the path is relative then it's going to look in the bundle to see if such a file exists.
When you included the html and content into the XCode project file you probably dragged the file(s) over to the project side-bar and were asked whether to "Recursively create groups for any added folders" or to "Create Folder References for any added folders."
The default is the first one which means XCode creates a yellow folder in your project, but it'll ignore the directory hierarchy on disk when time comes to generate the output bundle. If you choose the second option then the folder is blue and if you look in your output bundle you'll see that the whole folder hierarchy has been replicated.
The first works for simple web pages where everything is at the same folder level and you can use the method you list above to load it. The second case works better if your web page is complex and references content in sub-folders in which case you need to load the web pages from a relative path (say, the 'webpages' folder):
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle]
pathForResource:#"index" ofType:#"html"
inDirectory:#"webpages"];
The last thing to check for is if there are any BASE tags in the html file. This is a way to specify a default address or target for all links on a page, but it can muck up webview links.
The problem is that this call:
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
doesn't setup a baseURL and so relative paths in the .html file for things like javascript, css, images etc don't work.
Instead use this:
url = [NSURL URLWithString: [path lastPathComponent]
relativeToURL: [NSURL fileURLWithPath: [path stringByDeletingLastPathComponent]
isDirectory: YES]];
and then things like "styles.css" in the index.html file will be found IFF they are copied into the bundle next to the .html file.
You need to set this:
myWebView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeLink
Make sure that the .js files are in your copy to resource bundle section and not in the compile section. Xcode places them in the compile group by default.
When adding pathFor resource in Dictionary , it displays a nil string error.
My attempt was to run an entire web page out of the Xcode project file. To do that you must:
When importing the file select "Create folder references for any added folders".
Set up the web view, but make sure you set the relative path as previously mentioned.
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"filename"
ofType:#"html"
inDirectory:#"Directory"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[path lastPathComponent] relativeToURL:
[NSURL fileURLWithPath: [path stringByDeletingLastPathComponent]
isDirectory:YES]];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[self.currentWebView loadRequest:request];