How to upload images to Azure using Swift - ios

Question

I am developing an app which needs to store images in Azure using Swift.
Is there any example that will be helpful ? If not can you give me a suggestion ?

Answer 1

Here is a simple example.
1- Start here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-ios-how-to-use-blob-storage/
2- Get the SDK
3- Here is the code:
let account = AZSCloudStorageAccount(fromConnectionString:AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING) //I stored the property in my header file
let blobClient: AZSCloudBlobClient = account.getBlobClient()
let blobContainer: AZSCloudBlobContainer = blobClient.containerReferenceFromName("<yourContainerName>")
blobContainer.createContainerIfNotExistsWithAccessType(AZSContainerPublicAccessType.Container, requestOptions: nil, operationContext: nil) { (NSError, Bool) -> Void in
if ((NSError) != nil){
NSLog("Error in creating container.")
}
else {
let blob: AZSCloudBlockBlob = blobContainer.blockBlobReferenceFromName(<nameOfYourImage> as String) //If you want a random name, I used let imageName = CFUUIDCreateString(nil, CFUUIDCreate(nil))
let imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(<yourImageData>)
blob.uploadFromData(imageData!, completionHandler: {(NSError) -> Void in
NSLog("Ok, uploaded !")
})
}
}
Enjoy :)

Answer 2

You have to use their REST API, but they're working on an SDK right now.
There are a couple of examples of using their REST API on iOS. A cursory search brings up: Uploading to azure blob storage from SAS URL returns 404 status
There is also this example on Github - https://github.com/Ajayi13/BlobExample-Swift

Answer 3

In iOS 11 and Swift 4, you can do like this:
private let containerName = "<Your Name>"
private let connectionString = "<Your String>"
do {
let account = try AZSCloudStorageAccount(fromConnectionString: connectionString)
let blobClient = account?.getBlobClient()
let blobContainer = blobClient?.containerReference(fromName: containerName)
let currentDate = Date()
let fileName = String(currentDate.timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate)+".jpg"
let blob = blobContainer?.blockBlobReference(fromName: now)
blob?.upload(from: imageData, completionHandler: {(error)->Void in
print(now, "uploaded!") // imageData is the data you want to upload
})
} catch {
print(error)
}
This is just an example. Hope it helps.