Re: recycleURLs with authorization
Re: recycleURLs with authorization
- Subject: Re: recycleURLs with authorization
- From: SevenBits <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:59:39 -0400
On Thursday, June 18, 2015, sqwarqDev <email@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Sean
>
> That's certainly interesting, but seems like overkill in my case.
> SMJobBless seems to be addressing a bigger problem - how to let an app run
> privileged tasks without authorizing the entire app and without repeatedly
> asking the user for a password.
>
> That's not quite what I want. I actually want the user to be prompted for
> the password whenever it's needed just in the same way that Finder does.
>
> I don't see that as quite the same thing. All I'm trying to do is to get
> the system to not fail the move with a permission denied error and to seek
> that permission from the user. I can achieve this simply enough with
> applescript, but I was hoping there was a Cocoa solution.
I would file a Radar. Typically that's the case when there appears to be
missing functionality -- and if you're doing something wrong, an Apple
engineer can sometimes point you in the right direction.
>
>
> Best
>
> Phil
>
> > On 18 Jun 2015, at 09:13, Sean McBride <email@hidden
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:16:48 +0700, sqwarqDev said:
> >
> >> Hi list
> >>
> >> I'm trying to move some files to the trash with my app, but I need OS X
> >> to throw an authentication dialog when the requested file needs
> >> permission to be moved.
> >>
> >> I need a solution that will work from 10.6 onwards, so I've been looking
> >> at NSWorkspace's recycleURLs rather than NSFileManager's trashItemAtURL
> >> (not available pre 10.8).
> >>
> >> My problem is that recycleURLs doesn't appear to offer an option to ask
> >> the user for a password if it's needed. Is there another method I can
> >> use that will, or a way to make recycleURLs throw the dialog? I know I
> >> could probably run an NSTask and call "rm" but that's a bit more brutal
> >> than what I'm looking for. I'd like the user to actually see the file in
> >> the Trash and to know that they've authorised its removal.
> >
> > You should look at the SMJobBless sample code, which I think is the
> current way to do things:
> >
> > <
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/SMJobBless/Introduction/Intro.html
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
> <javascript:;>
> > Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
> > Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
> >
> >
>
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