Saving attachments from Mail.app through ScriptingBridge (Objective C)

Question

I'm trying to retrieve attachments from Mail.app through scriptingbridge. I'm using the following code to get access to my inbox messages.

MailApplication *mailApp = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier:@"com.apple.mail"];
MailMailbox *inbox = [mailApp inbox];
SBElementArray *messages = [inbox messages];

By iterating over the SBElementArray, I can access an individual MailMessage object.

Each MailMessage object has a getter that retrieves another SBElementArray, this time filled with MailMailAttachment objects.

It's working, because if I put a NSLog(@"count:%lu",mailitem.attachments.count); it will print the correct amount of attachments. File name and size are also correct printed.

But when I iterate over the attachments array and save it, nothing happens.

NSURL *url = [[NSURL new] initFileURLWithPath:@"/Users/usr/Documents/tmp/"];
NSLog(@"count:%lu",mailitem.attachments.count);
for (MailMailAttachment *attachment in mailitem.attachments) {
   NSLog(@"name:%@",attachment.name);
   NSLog(@"size:%ld",attachment.fileSize);
   [attachment saveIn:url as:MailSaveableFileFormatNativeFormat];
}

I didn't found any documentation about this method. From header file, it says:

- (void) saveIn:(NSURL *)in_ as:(MailSaveableFileFormat)as;  // Save a document.

I'm assuming that the NSURL is the place in which I want to store the file, but I have no idea about MailSaveableFileFormat. I'm passing MailSaveableFileFormatNativeFormat, that I found on header file, but as I said, nothing happens. Not even a simple error message.

I also tried to initialize the NSURL with a directory and a complete filepath (path + filename). Same result.

Does anyone has an example? How do I save it?

TIA,

Bob

Answer 1

I managed to solve the problem. I was initializing NSURL wrong... The code that worked is:

for (MailMailAttachment *attachment in mailitem.attachments) {
   NSString *filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@",@"/Users/usr/Documents/tmp/",attachment.name];
   NSURL *fileUrl = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filePath];
   [attachment saveIn:fileUrl as:MailSaveableFileFormatNativeFormat];
}

Answer 2

On my old system, I use a file path and nil like this [attachment saveIn:file_Path as:nil];

In my "Mail.h" : saveIn:(NSString *)in_ as:(NSString *)as;.

I know it changed on Lion NSURL instead of NSString) , but not in AppleScript script, you must specify the file path without suffering any other parameter --> save thisAttachment in filePath -- Applescript

So I think the complete file path + as:nil should work.