NSDictionary NSFileOwnerAccountName example ios

fileOwnerAccountName - NSFileOwnerAccountName

Returns the value for the key NSFileOwnerAccountName.

- (NSString *)fileOwnerAccountName

Return Value

The value for the key NSFileOwnerAccountName, or nil if the dictionary doesn’t have an entry for the key.

Discussion

This and the other file... methods are for use with a dictionary, such as those returned from the methodsfileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink: (NSFileManager), directoryAttributes(NSDirectoryEnumerator), and fileAttributes (NSDirectoryEnumerator), that represents the POSIX attributes of a file or directory. This method returns the account name of the file’s owner.

Example of [NSDictionary NSFileOwnerAccountName]

NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                          @"mobile",NSFileOwnerAccountName,
                          @"mobile",NSFileGroupOwnerAccountName,
                          nil];

NSError *error = nil;
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] setAttributes:dict ofItemAtPath:omgPath error:&error];
if(error){
    NSLog(@"Error settings permission %@",[error description]);
}

Example of [NSDictionary NSFileOwnerAccountName]

NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSMutableDictionary *attr = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary]; 
[attr setObject:@"root" forKey:NSFileOwnerAccountName];
[attr setObject:@"wheel" forKey:NSFileGroupOwnerAccountName]; 
[attr setObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:0755] forKey:NSFilePosixPermissions];

[fileManager createDirectoryAtPath:dir withIntermediateDirectories:TRUE attributes:attr error:&error];

Example of [NSDictionary NSFileOwnerAccountName]

NSString *path = @"/User/user/aPath";
NSFileManager *manager = [[[NSFileManager alloc] init] autorelease];
if ([manager fileExistsAtPath: path]) {
  NSDictionary *attrib = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                             [NSNumber numberWithInt:0], NSFileGroupOwnerAccountID,
                             [NSNumber numberWithInt:0], NSFileOwnerAccountID,
                             @"root", NSFileGroupOwnerAccountName,
                             @"root", NSFileOwnerAccountName, nil ];
  NSError *error = nil;
  [manager setAttributes:attrib ofItemAtPath:path error:&error];
  NSDirectoryEnumerator *dirEnum = [manager enumeratorAtPath: path];
  NSString *file;
  while (file = [dirEnum nextObject]) {
    [manager setAttributes:attrib ofItemAtPath:[path stringByAppendingPathComponent:file] error:&error];
  }
}