objective c - Accessing temp directory in Swift

Question

I was trying to access temp directory in Swift. In Objective-C, I could use the following code to do so:

- (NSString *)tempDirectory {

    NSString *tempDirectoryTemplate =
    [NSTemporaryDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"XXXXX"];
    const char *tempDirectoryTemplateCString = [tempDirectoryTemplate fileSystemRepresentation];
    char *tempDirectoryNameCString           = (char *)malloc(strlen(tempDirectoryTemplateCString) + 1);
    strcpy(tempDirectoryNameCString, tempDirectoryTemplateCString);
    char *result                             = mkdtemp(tempDirectoryNameCString);
    if (!result) {
        return nil;
    }
    NSString *tempDirectoryPath = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] stringWithFileSystemRepresentation:tempDirectoryNameCString length:strlen(result)];
    free(tempDirectoryNameCString);
    return tempDirectoryPath;
}

However, I'm a bit confuse about the type conversion and casting from Objective-C to Swift, such as const char * or CMutablePointer<CChar>. Is there any documents that I should look into?

Thanks.

Answer 1

How about something like :

func createTempDirectory() -> String? {
    let tempDirectoryTemplate = NSTemporaryDirectory().stringByAppendingPathComponent("XXXXX")

    let fileManager = NSFileManager.defaultManager()

    var err: NSErrorPointer = nil
    if fileManager.createDirectoryAtPath(tempDirectoryTemplate, withIntermediateDirectories: true, attributes: nil, error: err) {
        return tempDirectoryTemplate
    } else {
        return nil
    }
}

It doesn't answer your question about char* but it's cleaner...

NSFileManager reference here.

Also check out this SO question regarding unique names.