Identify UIDocument uniquely - ios

I'm working on a document based app with UIDocumentBrowserViewController. The app itself creates txt files which the user can edit and save.
I want to send those files to a companion app on an Apple Watch. The user can then read those on the watch. The UIDocument is read by my app and converted to be sent with WCSession.
The question is now: How can I uniquely identify an UIDocument?
I know I could make my own identifier by putting a UUID in the file name or at the end of each text file, but this is not the sweet solution.

Apple recommends the UUID for a filename approach, but does mention that you can have the user change the display name after it is created.
The UIDocument class assumes a correspondence between the filename of
a document and the document name (also known the display name). By
default, UIDocument stores the filename as the value of the
localizedName property. However, an application should not require a
user to provide the document filename or display name when he or she
creates a new document.
For your application, you should devise some convention for
automatically generating the filenames for your new documents. Some
suggestions are:
Generate a UUID (universally unique identifier) for each document,
optionally with an application-specific prefix.
Generate a timestamp (date and time) for each document, optionally with an application-specific prefix.
Use a sequential numbering system, for example: “Notes 1”, “Notes 2”, and so on.
For the document (display) name, you might initially use the document
filename if that makes sense (such as with “Notes 1”). Or, if the
document contains text and the user enters some text in the document,
you might use the first line (or some part of the first line) as the
display name. Your application can give users some way to customize
the document name after the document has been created.

Why don't you use URLResourceKey.documentIdentifierKey ? This is a persistent identifier which tracks a document across renames and safe-saves.

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Logic App retrieve values from custom created parameter names in a text file

having trouble with Logic App usage, so i am receiving a file with example text below and need to map them according to their tags. so for each tag they will go to different fields in my database. Keep in mind I cannot change the structure of the file, stays as is due to previous systems:
:2e:hello
:3t:there
:fy:people
What I do is pull the file from file storage and them i can access the content which are the values above. But what I need to do is check if i have ':2e:' and if so take its value which is 'there'.
Any suggestions?
thanks

Firebase (Swift) - generate unique ID with numbers only?

Right now, I'm generating unique IDs with childByAutoId(), but was wondering if there was a way to do this only generating numbers, no letters or other characters?
The reason is I need to be able to automatically send this key through imessage (part of how I send invites) and when it contains letters you're not able to automatically select and copy the key without copying the entire text message. With numbers only the key will be underlined and selectable.
Is there a way to either generate an ID with numbers only, or to selectively underline part of an iMessage with MFMessage in Swift?
Thanks!
I've need a similar option. When i create a new user; it will have a numberID which will be unique. I've tried .push() method which is for android, creates a uniqueID but with characters(letters) included. What i've done was something like this;
When i add a new user, i increment a value from different branch which is User2Key in this situation. And gave the value as key(parent) of newly added user.
When i delete or update a user, User2Key will be the same. If i add a new user then it will be incremented so every user will have uniqueID.
You can use a similar approach.
Hope this helps! Cheers!

Download email attachment files using Indy IMAP4 in C++ Builder

I am looking for a step by step solution on how to download mail attachments using Indy Imap in C++ Builder (I use C++ Builder XE8). I have read some tutorial in Delphi, but really getting Confused.
For example, what should I do after selecting the mailbox?
ImapClient->UIDRetrieve()
or
ImapClient->RetrieveStructure()
or
ImapClient->RetrievePart()
or
ImapClient->RetrieveEnvelop().
Then, what should I do next to identify the MessagePart no, haveing the attachment file?
The Last One, how to save that file to local drive?
Should I translate the following in C++?
TIdAttachmentFile(mbMsgP.MessageParts.Items[liCount]).SaveToFile(fName);
But I cant create a statement like this
TIdAttachmentFile(IdMessage1->MessageParts->items[no])->SaveToFile("filename");
I have read some tutorial in Delphi, but really getting Confused.
Not surprising, since IMAP is a complex and confusing protocol in general. That is why TIdIMAP4 has so many more methods compared to other mailbox protocols like TIdPOP3 and TIdSMTP (and it doesn't even implement everything IMAP is capable of).
For example, what should I do after selecting the mailbox?
ImapClient->UIDRetrieve() or ImapClient->RetrieveStructure() or ImapClient->RetrievePart() od ImapClient->RetrieveEnvelop().
That really depends on what you intend to do with the emails and their attachments.
(UID)Retrieve() downloads an entire email, parsing it into a TIdMessage and marking it as "read" on the server.
(UID)RetrieveStructure() retrieves the parent/child hierarchy of the various MiME parts within an email, creating an entry for each part in a TIdMessage.MessageParts or TIdImapMessageParts collection, providing some basic descriptive information about each part such as content type and part number. The actual content of each part is not retrieved.
(UID)RetrievePart() retrieves the actual content of a specific MIME part of an email. You do not need to download the entire email. But you do have to download the email's structure first so that you know the part number that you want to retrieve.
(UID)RetrieveEnvelope() retrieves some basic top-level headers for an email: date, subject, from, sender, reply-to, to, cc, bcc, in-reply-to, and message-id.
Then, what should I do next to identify the MessagePart no, haveing the attachment file?
If you download an entire email, you would have to loop through its MessageParts collection looking for a TIdAttachment object containing the desired filename/contenttype that you are interested in.
If you download just a part of an email, you would have to retrieve the email's structure and loop through the resulting collection looking for an entry containing the desired filename/contenttype that you are interested in, then you can request that specific part's content.
The Last One, how to save that file to local drive?
If you download an entire email, then you would call SaveToFile() on the desired TIdAttachment object:
static_cast<TIdAttachment*>(IdMessage1->MessageParts->Items[no])->SaveToFile("filename");
If you download an email's structure, you can use (UID)RetrievePart() to retrieve the attachment's data into a TStream object, such as a TFileStream.

Apache Solr: Merging documents from two sources before indexing

I need to index data from a custom application in Solr. The custom app stores metadata in an Oracle RDBMS and documents (PDF, MS Word, etc.) in a file store. The two are linked in the sense that the metadata in the database refers to a physical document (PDF) in the file store.
I am able to index the metadata from the RDBMS without issues. Now I would like to update the indexed documents with an additional field in which I can store the parsed content from the PDFs.
I have considered and tried the following
1. Using Update RequestHandler to try and update the indexed document with . This didn't work and the original document indexed from the RDBMS was overwritten.
2. Using SolrJ to do atomic updates but I am not sure if this is a good approach for something like this
Has anyone come across this issue before and what would be the recommended approach?
You can update the document, but it requires that you know the id of the existing document. For example:
{
"id": "5",
"parsed_content":{"set": "long text field with parsed content"}
}
Instead of just saying "parsed_content":"something" you have to wrap the value in "parsed_content":{"set":"something"} to trigger adding it to the existing document.
See https://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#Optional_attributes_for_.22field.22 for documentation on how to work with multivalued fields etc.

How to store a picture within Active Directory using Ruby in a Rail3App?

All I want to do is to upload an image into the Active Directory. So far I can update any AD information but the image. I have tried to search for some idea but came up with nothing so far.
Do I have to encode an image in a certain way? Do I just ldap-replace the jpegPhoto attribute with a byte-string of the photo?
Any hint towards a solution would be great.
Thanks in advance!
First of all, there is an attribute in Active directory called thumbnailPhoto. According to this Microsoft article The thumbNailPhoto attribute contains octet string type data. The AD interprets octet string data as an array of bytes.
If you want a sample code in C# you can get something here.
On the theorical point of view you can also inject a photo with LDIF using tools like "B64" to code your image file in base 64.
Secondly, On my point of view a Directory is not a database.
So, even if the attribute exists (created by netscape according to the OID 2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.35), even if Microsoft explain us how to put a picture into Active Directory, I think that it's better to register an URL, or a path to a file from a file system into a Directory.
I have no idea of the impact on performance of AD if I load each entry with 40 Ko (average size of a thumbnail photo). But I know that if there are bad written programs on the network, I mean kind of program that load all the attributes when they search an entry into the directory, this will considerably load the network.
I hope it helps.
JP
I had this issue and was able to get it working by creating a File stream and passing it through to #ldap.replace_attribute as a binary file. i.e.
thumbnail_stream = open("path_to_file")
#ldap.replace_attribute USERS_DN, :thumbnailPhoto, File.binread(thumbnail_stream)
Where #ldap is an instance of net/ldap, bound to AD. i.e.
#ldap = Net::LDAP.new
#ldap.host = ''
#ldap.port = ''
#ldap.auth USERNAME, PASSWORD
#ldap.bind

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