Function deprecated in ios 4 - iphone

Hi all i update to ios 4 but in my app i use :
NSString *connected = [NSString string withContentofURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://myurl.com/myFile]];
but now i get the following :
StringWithContentsofURL is deprecated !
I use this to test if connection is available.
What can i do ??
thanks

As of iPhone OS2 (so this is not new) the
[NSString withContentsOfURL: (NSURL*) url]
method has been replaced with
+ (id)stringWithContentsOfURL: (NSURL *)url encoding: (NSStringEncoding)enc error: (NSError **)error
Here's an example using the new signature:
NSError* error = nil;
NSURL* url = [NSURL urlWithString: #"www.google.com"];
NSString* stringForUrlPath = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL: url
encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding
error: &error];
See this for your options for NSStringEncoding.

A little Googling will give you the answer here:
It has been replaced with stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error...
Source: What is the "stringWithContentsOfURL" replacement for objective C?
Also, in the future, please try to spell check your inquiries.

Use
NSError* error;
NSString *string = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
instead. Apple shouldn't have included stringWithContentsOfURL: (without encoding) to start with. It has been deprecated on OS X for a long time, because that was the cause of a lot of headaches for non-English speakers.
That said, don't download something to test the connectivity. Instead, use Reachiability.

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How to integrate bitly api to shorten my link in iphone sdk

I created an app which get the url of my youtube videos in the text field using GData Client Library. Now i want to shorten that url using bitly api.. But i don't have an idea about that.
if anybody done it before me, please tell me how you did it.
Thanks,
Chakradhar.
This is a quick and easy way of doing it.
You will need to register with bit.ly and obtain a login name and API key.
NSString *username = #"user";
NSString *apiKey = #"R_11111111111111";
NSString *url = #"yoururl.com";
NSString *shortURL = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://api.bit.ly/v3/shorten?login=%#&apikey=%#&longUrl=%#&format=txt", username, apiKey, url]] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
Here is an iOS wrapper for bit.ly api https://github.com/st3fan/iphone-bitly
This has worked well for me, and since it is a synchroeous request there is a slight delay to fetch the link so you may want to display a Progress HUD:
NSString *accessToken = YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN;
NSString *url = YOUR_URL;
NSString *bitlyRequest = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?access_token=%#&longUrl=%#",accessToken, url];
NSString *bitlyResponse = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:bitlyRequest] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
NSData *data = [bitlyResponse dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSDictionary *bitlyDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:nil];
NSString *bitlyUrl = bitlyDictionary[#"data"][#"url"];
I suggest you start with theri API documentation.

NSURL with string

I have problem with NSURL. I am trying to create NSURL with string
code
NSString *prefix = (#"tel://1234567890 ext. 101");
NSString *dialThis = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", prefix];
NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:dialThis];
NSLog(#"%#",url);
also tried
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:dialThis];
but it gives null . what is wrong ?
Thanks..
Your problem is the unescaped spaces in the URL. This, for instance, works:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"tel://1234567890x101"];
Edit: As does this..
NSURL *url2 = [NSURL URLWithString:[#"tel://1234567890 ext. 101"
stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
Before passing any string as URL you don't control, you have to encode the whitespace:
NSString *dialThis = [prefix stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
// tel://1234567890%20ext.%20101
As a side note, iOS is not going to dial any extension. The user will have to do that manually.
From Apple URL Scheme Reference: Phone Links:
To prevent users from maliciously redirecting phone calls or changing the behavior of a phone or account, the Phone application supports most, but not all, of the special characters in the tel scheme. Specifically, if a URL contains the * or # characters, the Phone application does not attempt to dial the corresponding phone number.
Im not sure the "ext." in phone number can be replce by what value? but you can try like this,
NSString *prefix = [NSString stringWithString: #"tel://1234567890 ext. 101"];
NSString *dialThis = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", prefix];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[dialThis stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" ext. " withString:#"#"]];
// it might also represent by the pause symbol ','.
you can go to find the ext. is equivalent to what symbol in the phone, then replace it.
but dunno it can be work in actual situation or not....
As with iOS 9.0,
stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:
has been deprecated.
Use the following method for converting String to NSURL.
let URL = "URL GOES HERE"
let urlString = URL.stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters(NSCharacterSet.URLFragmentAllowedCharacterSet())
If you've got something you think should be a URL string but know nothing about how URL strings are supposed to be constructed, you can use NSURL's URLWithDataRepresentation:relativeToURL: method. It parses the URL string (as bytes in an NSData) and percent-encodes characters as needed. Use the NSUTF8StringEncoding for best results when converting your NSString to NSData.
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithDataRepresentation:[#"tel:1234567890 ext. 101" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] relativeToURL:nil];
NSLog(#"%#",url);
creates a URL with the string 1234567890%20ext.%20101
It attempts to do the right thing. However, for best results you should find the specification for the URL scheme you using and follow it's syntax to create your URL string. For the tel scheme, that is https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3966.
P.S. You had "tel://" instead of "tel:" which is incorrect for a tel URL.
Try this one, It works for me....
NSString *prefix = (#"tel://1234567890 ext. 101");
NSString *dialThis = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", prefix];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[queryString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#"%20"]];
NSLog(#"%#",url);
Make an extension for use in any part of the project as well:
extension String {
var asNSURL: NSURL! {
return NSURL(string: self)
}
}
From now you can use
let myString = "http://www.example.com".asNSURL
or
myString.asNSURL

Problem with Tiny URL

I am developing Twitter API to my application. In my app, I want to display the tiny url with parsed xml link in UITexField as dynamically. statically, I could able to display tiny url in UITextField, but dynamically I am not able to display the tiny url. Please help me!
Code: statically(Working fine),
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString"http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?
url=https://gifts.development.xxxxx.edu/xxxx/Welcome.aspx?appealcode=23430"];
NSString *link = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:nil];
Dynamically,
NSString * tiny = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php? url=%#", shtUrl];//shtUrl is parsed string
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:tiny];
NSString *link = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:nil];
In above, dynamically app running without warning and error, but url not displayed and when I am checking debugger, url and link both are show nil value. But shtUrl show whole url value as properly.
I tried with all NSURL class and instance methods and String methods also.
In this line of your code:
NSString * tiny = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php? url=%#", shtUrl];
there is a space after the 'api-create.php?'. This will result in a space in the formated string you are creating and will probably result in URLWithString: being unable to parse the url and returning nil.
Remove the extra space (assuming that it is really there and not just a cut-n-paste error) and see if that fixes the problem.
It's also possible that the shtUrl that you are building a tinyurl for contains special characters that would need to be urlencoded (i.e. percent escaped.) Try adding this:
NSString * encodedShtUrl = (NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(NULL,
(CFStringRef)shtUrl,
NULL,
(CFStringRef)#"!*'\"();:#&=+$,/?%#[]% ",
kCFStringEncodingUTF8 );
to encode the shtUrl, then use the encodedShtUrl when creating tiny:
NSString * tiny = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php? url=%#", encodedShtUrl];
See http://simonwoodside.com/weblog/2009/4/22/how_to_really_url_encode/ for more about the escaping.

NSData & NSURL - url with space having problem

I have following code in my application.
NSData *data=[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:pathOfThumbNail]];
pathOfThumbNail has following path
http://70.84.58.40/projects/igolf/TipThumb/GOLF 58B.jpg
When I open above path in safari browser - path is changed automatically & image is successfully displayed.
http://70.84.58.40/projects/igolf/TipThumb/GOLF%2058B.jpg
But in iPhone, due to space in path, image isn't loaded in nsdata.
Use: stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:
Returns a representation of the receiver using a given encoding to determine the percent escapes necessary to convert the receiver into a legal URL string.
-(NSString *)stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:(NSStringEncoding)encoding
A representation of the receiver using encoding to determine the percent escapes necessary to convert the receiver into a legal URL string. Returns nil if encoding cannot encode a particular character
Added per request by #rule
NSString* urlText = #"70.84.58.40/projects/igolf/TipThumb/GOLF 58B.jpg";
NSString* urlTextEscaped = [urlText stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: urlTextEscaped];
NSLog(#"urlText: '%#'", urlText);
NSLog(#"urlTextEscaped: '%#'", urlTextEscaped);
NSLog(#"url: '%#'", url);
NSLog output:
urlText: '70.84.58.40/projects/igolf/TipThumb/GOLF 58B.jpg'
urlTextEscaped: '70.84.58.40/projects/igolf/TipThumb/GOLF%2058B.jpg'
url: '70.84.58.40/projects/igolf/TipThumb/GOLF%2058B.jpg'
A swift 3.0 approach (stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding and stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters seems now deprecated):
let urlString ="your/url/".addingPercentEncoding( withAllowedCharacters: .urlQueryAllowed)
stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding has been deprecated in iOS 9.0, it is recommended you use stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters instead.
Here's the Objective-C code for > iOS 9.0
NSString* urlText = #"70.84.58.40/projects/igolf/TipThumb/GOLF 58B.jpg";
NSString* urlTextEscaped = [urlText stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters:[NSCharacterSet URLQueryAllowedCharacterSet]];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: urlTextEscaped];
NSLog(#"urlText: '%#'", urlText);
NSLog(#"urlTextEscaped: '%#'", urlTextEscaped);
NSLog(#"url: '%#'", url);

using NSString + stringWithContentsOfFile:usedEncoding:error:

I've got problem with use + stringWithContentsOfFile:usedEncoding:error:
My problem in usedEncoding:(NSStringEncoding *)enc
I don't know how can i set pointer to encoding. If i make it - programm is fail.
For example, in similar function we have encoding:(NSStringEncoding)enc - without pointer!
I want loading file (file has encoding ISOLatin1) in NSString and use NSString as UTF8String.
how can i make it ?
thanks.
NSStringEncoding encoding;
NSError* error;
NSString* myString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:myFilePath usedEncoding:&encoding error:&error];