Get resource URL from project specific path

Question

I need to retrieve the URL of a resource contained in my Xcode project through a path that begins in the project's directory (aka mainBundle)

So if my specified path if ./snd/archer/acknowledge1.wav, I need to create a URL from that.

I know I can use NSURL(fileURLWithPath:) for system directories, but I don't know how to do this directly from the bundle.

score 32 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 28 '18 at 14:21

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As of Swift 3, the answer is:

Bundle.main.url(forResource: "acknowledge1", withExtension: "wav", subdirectory: "snd/archer")

edited Aug 28 '18 at 14:21

luckyhandler

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Please fix your answer. Needs comma before 'subdirectory'. This is great answer for Swift 4 (& perhaps Swift 3) – Raymond Naseef Feb 27 '18 at 08:43
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In Swift 4 I needed to provide forResource and withExtension only. When I provided the subdirectory it did not find the .webarchive I was loading (which was in a subdirectory). – Alexander Jun 17 '18 at 19:34

score 22 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 16 '17 at 13:36

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You would use one of the bundle resourse URL methods

[[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"acknowledge1"
                        withExtension:@"wav"
                         subdirectory:@"snd/archer"];

NSBundle.mainBundle().URLForResource("acknowledge1", withExtension:"wav" subdirectory:"snd/archer")

In latest Swift:

Bundle.main.url(forResource: "acknowledge1", withExtension:"wav")

edited Dec 16 '17 at 13:36

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What is the latest swift? – iPadawan Apr 09 '21 at 19:40

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 06 '16 at 09:39

In Swift 2.3 you'd have to use this unwrapping:

if let resourceUrl = NSBundle.mainBundle().URLForResource("acknowledge1", withExtension: "wav", subdirectory:"snd/archer") {
        if NSFileManager.defaultManager().fileExistsAtPath(resourceUrl.path!) {
            print("file found")
            //do stuff
        }
    }

Get resource URL from project specific path

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