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Keith B.7
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9 years ago
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Obj-C download destination + two questions on method names

Hello again,   Three quick questions:   1. To download a file, I use -downloadUrl:overwrite:destination:.   The documentation for the latter says:   "A closure used to compute the destination...
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    Greg-DB
    9 years ago

    1. That's correct, since overwrite is NO, destinationURL will be the same as downloadURL. (The documentation is a little misleading due to an old reference to "closure". We'll get that fixed up.)

     

    2. and 3. These methods have these modifications to avoid some reserved keyword/prefix constraints in Objective-C/Cocoa. It's non-ideal of course, but there's nothing special you need to do on your side beyond use those inconsistent names.

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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

1. That's correct, since overwrite is NO, destinationURL will be the same as downloadURL. (The documentation is a little misleading due to an old reference to "closure". We'll get that fixed up.)

 

2. and 3. These methods have these modifications to avoid some reserved keyword/prefix constraints in Objective-C/Cocoa. It's non-ideal of course, but there's nothing special you need to do on your side beyond use those inconsistent names.

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Keith B.7
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9 years ago

Great, thanks again!

 

All the best,
Keith

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