Automator Action
I am making a custom Automator action for manipulating text input. I tested the input to see what class it was and the result was __NSArrayM. This means that I need to somehow convert this input into a list that AppleScript can understand—and eventually to a string. I just need to isolate the string and then convert it back to the same object for the output.
Summary:
- Convert the __NSArrayM input to an AppleScript list object
- Convert AppleScript list object back to a __NSArrayM for the output
I would like my automator to look something like this:
Coding Attempt in XCode
My attempt at coding this looks like:
script Change_Case
property parent : class "AMBundleAction"
property menuChoices : {"Title Case","UPPER CASE","lower case","tOGGLE cASE"}
property menuSelection : 0
on runWithInput_fromAction_error_(input, anAction, errorRef)
set inputClass to class of input -- just for debugging
set menuSel to menuSelection
if menuSel is 0 -- Title Case
display dialog menuSel as string
end if
tell class "NSArray" of current application to set inputValues to arrayWithObjects_(input)
log inputValues -- just for debugging
end runWithInput_fromAction_error_
end script
Final Code Update
I thought I would post the final code to my automator action for completeness. The key step was to make the input and output com.apple.cocoa.stringas shown in the picture below.
script Change_Case
property parent : class "AMBundleAction"
property menuChoices : {"Title Case","UPPER CASE","lower case","tOGGLE cASE"}
property menuSelection : missing value
property array : class "NSArray"
on runWithInput_fromAction_error_(input, anAction, errorRef)
set inputValues to input as list
set theString to item 1 of inputValues
if (menuSelection as string) is "missing value"
set menuSelection to 0
end if
set menuSelection to menuSelection as integer
if menuSelection is 0 -- Title Case
--display dialog "Title Case, Menu Selection ID: " & menuSelection as string
set mycode to "import sys; print sys.argv[1].title()"
set myscript to "/usr/bin/python -c " & mycode's quoted form & " " & quoted form of theString
set output to (do shell script myscript) as string
end if
if menuSelection is 1 -- UPPER CASE
--display dialog "Upper Case, Menu Selection ID: " & menuSelection as string
set mycode to "import sys; print sys.argv[1].upper()"
set myscript to "/usr/bin/python -c " & mycode's quoted form & " " & quoted form of theString
set output to (do shell script myscript) as string
end if
if menuSelection is 2 -- lower case
--display dialog "Lower Case, Menu Selection ID: " & menuSelection as string
set mycode to "import sys; print sys.argv[1].lower()"
set myscript to "/usr/bin/python -c " & mycode's quoted form & " " & quoted form of theString
set output to (do shell script myscript) as string
end if
if menuSelection is 3 -- tOGGLE cASE
--display dialog "Swap Case, Menu Selection ID: " & menuSelection as string
set mycode to "import sys; print sys.argv[1].swapcase()"
set myscript to "/usr/bin/python -c " & mycode's quoted form & " " & quoted form of theString
set output to (do shell script myscript) as string
end if
return output
end runWithInput_fromAction_error_
end script
