Issue with getting url of image in Gallery - ios

Question

I'm converting the image I'm picking from the gallery into its URL like so...
func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
if let image = info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as? UIImage {
UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(image, self, #selector(image(_:didFinishSavingWithError:contextInfo:)), nil)
let imageURL = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as? NSURL
let imageName = imageURL?.lastPathComponent
let documentDirectory = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true).first!
let photoURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: documentDirectory)
self.localPath = photoURL.appendingPathComponent(imageName!)
do {
try UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 1.0)?.write(to: localPath!)
print("File Saved")
imageArray.append(image)
} catch { //Error }
self.collectionView.reloadData()
} else { //Error here }
self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}
Now if I have 2 images, I want to pass them one by one to my API call as a parameter. This I'm doing like so...
for imgURL in imageArray {
let url = "http://myapp.com/vw/images_upload"
let headers = [ "Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"]
let Parameters =
[
"image": imgURL,
"seller_id": id
] as [String : Any]
Alamofire.request(url, method: .post, parameters: Parameters, encoding: URLEncoding.httpBody, headers: headers)
.responseJSON { (response) in
if let httpResponse = response.response {
print("error \(httpResponse.statusCode)")
if httpResponse.statusCode == 200 {
if let result = response.result.value as? [String:Any] {
if result["success"] as! Int == 0 {
print("Something went wrong!")
} else if result["success"] as! Int == 1 {
print("UPLOADED IMAGE SUCCESSFULLY!!")
}}}}}}
But in the parameter, in imgURL, I'm not getting the url of the image. Above I had got the url in the localPath. But I cannot loop through localPath as it gives an error. Also, in the imageArray, I'm passing the image which is not in the url format...it is in this format: <UIImage: 0x60800009f9f0> size {4288, 2848} orientation 0 scale 1.000000...How the url format can be passed into the imageArray, that I'm not able to understand.Could this be the issue..?
Also how can I get the url of the image so that I can pass it into the API call...? Please help...

Answer 1

hi what i understand here from your question is that you are setting an image to an imageview and you want to pass that image's path to an api.
so i have written a function to do the same with a resizing ability which you can avoid or modify according to your needs.
So pass your image picked by the image picker and a default name string (eg:"image1") and you will get the image path/url in return
func storeImage(image:UIImage, fileName:String) -> String {
var resizedImage = image
func storeImage(image:UIImage, fileName:String) -> String {
var resizedImage = image
if (image.size.width > 200) {
let width = 200.0 as CGFloat
let height = image.size.height * width / image.size.width
resizedImage = image.scaleImage(toSize: CGSize(width: width, height: height))!
}
else if (image.size.height > 200) {
let height = 200.0 as CGFloat
let width = image.size.width * height / image.size.height
resizedImage = image.scaleImage(toSize: CGSize(width: width, height: height))!
}
let imageData = NSData(data:UIImagePNGRepresentation(resizedImage)!)
let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(FileManager.SearchPathDirectory.documentDirectory, FileManager.SearchPathDomainMask.userDomainMask, true)
let docs: String = paths[0]
let fullPath = docs.stringByAppendingPathComponent(path: fileName)
_ = imageData.write(toFile: fullPath, atomically: true)
return fullPath
}