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David E.64's avatar
David E.64
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Download Error, how to extract info

Hi,

I am brand new to Swift, in fact only started looking at it in order to use swiftydropbox! Currently I don't see how to extract info from the downloadError without doing string finding jiggery pokkery! 

I am coming from objC class and sending a download with completion message to my swift wrapper class which contains client.files.download()

if there is no response I am doing this: 

                    completion(success: false, error: error?.description)

however I am finding it tricky to use this error description back in my objC class. What is best way to simply get the error code out of this or the NSUnderlyingError? I feel sure I don't need to go wading into that string and searching for key phrases? 

Thanks and sorry for the noob question!

2 Replies

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    Hi David, here's an example of using files.download with every error case handled in Swift: (apologies for the poor formatting on the forum)

    Dropbox.authorizedClient!.files.download(path: path, destination: destination).response { response, error in
    if let (metadata, url) = response {
    print("*** Download file ***")
    print("Downloaded file name: \(metadata.name)")
    print("Downloaded file url: \(url)")
    } else if let callError = error {
    switch callError as CallError {
    case .RouteError(let boxed, let requestId):
    print("RouteError[\(requestId)]:")
    switch boxed.unboxed as Files.DownloadError {
    case .Path(let fileLookupError):
    print("PathError: ")
    switch fileLookupError {
    case .MalformedPath(let malformedPathError):
    print("MalformedPath: \(malformedPathError)")
    case .NotFile:
    print("NotFile")
    case .NotFolder:
    print("NotFolder")
    case .NotFound:
    print("NotFound")
    case .RestrictedContent:
    print("RestrictedContent")
    case .Other:
    print("Other")
    }
    case .Other:
    print("Other")
    }
    case .BadInputError(let message, let requestId):
    print("BadInputError[\(requestId)]: \(message)")
    case .HTTPError(let code, let message, let requestId):
    print("HTTPError[\(requestId)]: \(code): \(message)")
    case .InternalServerError(let code, let message, let requestId):
    print("InternalServerError[\(requestId)]: \(code): \(message)")
    case .OSError(let err):
    print("OSError: \(err)")
    case .RateLimitError:
    print("RateLimitError")
    }

    }
    }

    If I understand your question correctly, you can do the specific error detection in your Swift code, and then send whatever indicator or information you want back to the Objective-C side, as opposed to the error object or description itself.

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