ios swift share-extension: what are all and the best ways to handle images?

Question

i have a share-extension handling different kinds of formats, like images.

for attachment in content.attachments as! [NSItemProvider] {
    if attachment.hasItemConformingToTypeIdentifier(kUTTypeImage as String) {
        attachment.loadItem(forTypeIdentifier: kUTTypeImage as String, options: nil) { data, error in
          if error == nil {
            var contentData: Data? = nil

            //data could be raw Data
            if let data = data as? Data {
              contentData = data

            //data could be an URL
            } else if let url = data as? URL {
              contentData = try? Data(contentsOf: url)
            } 

            //data could be an UIImage object (e.g. ios11 screenshot editor)
            else if let imageData = data as? UIImage {
              contentData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(imageData)
            } 

            // proceed here with contentData

          }

i came across now 3 different ways how the image data is provided in the loaditem-method as NSSecureCoding (in case of kUTTypeImage) and wonder if this is the right way to handle it and if i am missing other ways how images are represented.

It seems not defined how applications provide their image-data to a share extension.

Is there another (better) generic way to get to know what is coming via the data-variable (NSSecureCoding)? Generic call to a decoder?

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