Issue with read/write to NSFileHandle
Issue with read/write to NSFileHandle
- Subject: Issue with read/write to NSFileHandle
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:40:55 +1000
Hi all,
I’m not sure whether what I’m doing is right here. I’m trying to implement a simple logging system, where I write to a log file, and a NSTextView shows what’s in the log.
I have a NSFileHandle that I create using +[NSFileHande fileHandleForUpdatingAtURL:error:]
I write new log messages to it using -writeData:, and that works - I can see that the file itself has been updated with the new information.
In order to read the content of the file, I have set up a readability handler like this:
mLogFile.readabilityHandler = ^(NSFileHandle* handle)
{
NSData* available = [handle availableData];
NSString* newText = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:available encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(appendLogText:) withObject:newText waitUntilDone:NO];
[newText release];
};
I do this rather than directly updating the log text view when I write the data so that in theory I could have other stuff writing stuff to the same file. This block does get called when the file is updated, but -availableData is always zero bytes. Reading the documentation, NSFileHandle seems to have only one file offset, which is common to both read and write, which is a bit puzzling, because surely you’d want to write at the end of the file, but read from wherever you’d read from last time. This single offset explains why I always get zero bytes, but it seems like a strange implementation. Have I understood it correctly? Can I achieve what I want, or do I have to save off the previous file offset? If I do that, I may as well write the text directly when I update the file. This isn’t really what I want, though could probably live with it for now.
—Graham
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