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Cocoa + Automator : service to generate text files not working
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Cocoa + Automator : service to generate text files not working


  • Subject: Cocoa + Automator : service to generate text files not working
  • From: Devarshi Kulshreshtha <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:32:06 +0530

I am trying to create an automator service using cocoa, which will simply
create a text file with the name of files selected, at the same path, for
which I wrote below code:

- (id)runWithInput:(id)input fromAction:(AMAction *)anAction
error:(NSDictionary **)errorInfo
{
// Add your code here, returning the data to be passed to the next action.
    NSArray *fileURLs = (NSArray *)input;

    size_t count = [fileURLs count];

    dispatch_apply(count, dispatch_get_global_queue(0, 0), ^(size_t i) {
        NSURL *fileURL = [fileURLs objectAtIndex:i];

        NSData *data = [@"some crude text ;)"
dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

        //changing name of file
        NSString *filePathWithoutExtension = [[fileURL path]
stringByDeletingPathExtension];
        NSString *filePathWithNewExtension = [[NSString alloc]
initWithFormat:@"%@.%@",filePathWithoutExtension,@"txt"];

        [data writeToFile:filePathWithNewExtension atomically:NO];

    });

    // no need to return anything
return nil;
}

I added below values in info.plist file:

AMAccepts: Types: Item 0: com.apple.cocoa.url
AMCategory: AMCategoryPhotos

I imported the action to the automator, and added it to the default service
template.

The options selected in input template are:

1. Service receives selected: URLs
2. in: Finder
3. Input is: only URLs

My problem is the service created is not appearing when I am trying to
right click a file in finder.

Can anyone suggest if I missed anything?
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