I am receiving a text file from a socket over TCP/IP. There is no file extension (or filename for that matter) as the data is received as bytes. I can take the data from this (in the form of NSData) and load it into a UITextView and display it fine.
I want to persist this data to a file. However, I don't know what format the data is in (txt, rtf, doc, docx)? I assume it as .txt and save it in the documents directory, but is there a programmatic way of finding out for sure? I've looked around StackOverflow and at the documentation and haven't been able to find anything.
And is there a way to get the details of the file attributes like the file creation date.
Thanks in advance.
When you send a file over a TCP/IP connection, only the file contents will be converted to data and be passed across. If you want the filename,extension and the file attributes, then you will have to add those details separately and append it with the data to be sent. Then you can parse it at the receiver end and use the results inside your app.
You can choose the file type you want when you save the data, you can get attributes from file,please refer to Get file creation date.
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So, I'm creating an app that works like a bot, it makes a call to an API from time to time, then it receives a response in a json-like format and saves it like this:
finalResult = RestClient.get( apiUrl, headers = apiHeaders )
jsonData = JSON.parse(ActiveSupport::Gzip.decompress(finalResult))
time = Time.now
File.write("public/#{time}.json", jsonData)
I'm using ActiveSupport to be able to parse this Gzip compressed data, since it's a lot of data, otherwise it takes forever to get it. Then I get the time the data was received, basically, and I use it to name the file so that I can keep good track of it.
What I need to do now is compress this .json file, if possible, into a .zip file(it can be .rar, or .7z, or .tz, whatever) before I upload it to my storage so it takes less space. Is there anyway that I can do something similar to File.write but to save it as a zipped json file? I already checked stuff like zlib and ruby-zip, but they only let me zip files that already "exist", so I can't save it as a zipped .json directly, I'd need to take the .json file and then zip it, but how could I do that if the name of the file is a Time.now and it always change?
I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance :)
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Giving some more details that may help you to help me:
I created a controller and model to handle this, since I'll be using ActiveStorage. It's ResponsesController and Response model, and the only parameter that the Response model has is has_one_attached :json_file. I intend to use Heroku to handle the CRON job of calling the API and I'll upload the .json files(or .zip files) to an AWS storage.
Is it possible to load a [String : Any] dictionary into a temporary file stream, without writing the contents to disk anywhere, then feed the stream to transferFile, as the file parameter? I know this is possible in PHP, but am not so sure about Swift.
I have come across a problem whereby my data exceeds the messaging limits. Therefore I either need to develop my own protocol to transfer the data, or somehow pass the data to transferFile.
I do not want to write my data to temporary files, transfer, and then delete them, as this is pretty dirty.
Why not just write the contents of the dictionary to a temporary file and pass the URL of that file to transferFile? I know you think that this is a "dirty" way to do things but since you need to pass a file URL to transferFile, that might be your only option - at least, that's the only option I know of ...
So I have an attachment on my incoming Pop3 message,
Msg.MessageParts.Items[msgpart] as TidAttachmentFile
but, is it possible to get the content of this attached file in the format specified by Msg.MessageParts.Items[msgpart].ContentTransfer (so base64 ascii) instead of creating a temp file, calling SaveToFile, and then re-reading the file and re-connverting back to base64?
If TIdMessage.NoDecode is set to False, then no, it is not possible. When NoDecode is False, TIdMessageClient decodes the email as it is being read off the socket and places decoded binary data into attachment objects. The only way to get the original base64 data is to set TIdMessage.NoDecode to True and parse the raw email data manually (it is stored as-is in the TIdMessage.Body) as you would effectively be disabling TIdMessageClient's entire decoding system.
On the other hand, if you just want to avoid the temp file, you can use the TIdMessage.OnCreateAttachment event to have Indy create TIdAttachmentMemory objects instead of the default TIdAttachmentFile objects. The base64 will still be auto-decoded and stored as binary in the attachment, but at least the attachment would be solely in memory so your re-encode would be faster.
I had use a method to redirect all my logs into a text file. The problem is that i do not know how to store the text file into the SQLite database.
I would use Blob fields. here is a description how to do it. And of course the content of the file should be stored. The file itself can be stored elsewhere, with a HTTP POST...
I am using paperclip to attach an excel file to a mode.
The purpose is to import the data from the excel file to the database.
Model: Import
has_attached_file: spreadsheet
For the import process, I want to access the file in my model as following.
path = "#{Rails.root}/public/#{spreadsheet.url}"
This doesn't work. I guess because the url has the timestamp at the end.
In general what is the best way to access the attachments on server side ?
I think you're looking for the to_file method. You should be able to do something like this:
excel_file = self.spreadsheet.to_file
which will either return the uploaded file from the server (if you're using s3 or remote storage), or if it has been assigned to the model but not actually stored yet (if you haven't called model.save since it was uploaded), it returns the temp file stored on disk.
From there you should be able to use an excel gem or library to parse the contents.
Alternatively, you can use spreadsheet.url(nil, false) - the second parameter denotes whether or not to append a timestamp.
#spreadsheet.path
http://rdoc.info/gems/paperclip/2.3.8/Paperclip/Attachment#path-instance_method