Where do you set up your URL handler? It needs to happen early. If you currently have it in applicationDidFinishLaunching
, try to move it to applicationWillFinishLaunching
.
The following works for me and logs the URL at launch even when the app is not running before I open the URL in Safari, for example. When I change WillFinishLaunching to DidFinishLaunching, I see exactly the behavior you describe.
@implementation AppDelegate
- (void)applicationWillFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)notification
{
NSAppleEventManager *appleEventManager = [NSAppleEventManager sharedAppleEventManager];
[appleEventManager setEventHandler:self andSelector:@selector(handleGetURLEvent:withReplyEvent:) forEventClass:kInternetEventClass andEventID:kAEGetURL];
}
- (void)handleGetURLEvent:(NSAppleEventDescriptor *)event withReplyEvent:(NSAppleEventDescriptor *)replyEvent
{
NSAppleEventDescriptor *obj = [event descriptorForKeyword:keyDirectObject];
DescType type = [obj descriptorType];
if (type == typeChar) {
NSData *data = [obj data];
if (data) {
NSString *urlString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
NSLog(@"url: %@", url);
}
}
}
@end