I'm trying to write a small utility that performs some actions
based upon the URL of the current web page. I assumed that the
following would give me a variable of the correct type for
searching the keychain, however it appears I'm wrong. If I hard-
code 'keyName' to the address of the page then the retrieval works
fine.
tell application "Safari"
set theURL to the URL of document 1
end tell
set keyName to theURL as text
-- at this point 'keyName' seems to be correct, but doesn't work.
-- if I 'set keyName to "www.apple.com"' then it works
I'm assuming that the coercion of URL to text is not working as I
expect and 'keyName' actually contains some extraneous non-visible
characters.
You're right, Scott. Safari returns theURL as Unicode text, and the
coercion to text/string, while returning a class of string, actually
results in international/styled text. In other words, the text still
retains some encoding. Since there are several ways to strip this
from the text, here's a selection:
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set {text:keyName} to theURL as text
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set keyName to theURL as string as record as list as string
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set keyName to (theURL as string as record)'s «class ktxt»
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Incidentally, while it used to be possible to coerce Unicode text to
a record directly, this is evidently no longer the case. However,
initially coercing to a string still seems to work...
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kai
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