Writing string to file not working (anymore)

harrison

Hello. I have a script which I wrote some year(s) ago. It just stopped working. The issue is writing a string to a file.

This is the original script:

// Save to disk var s = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:"my text"]; var path = folder + filename + ".html"; log(path); var error = null; log(s); var res = [s writeToFile:path atomically:false encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:error]; log("result: " + res); log("err: " + error);
And I've also tried this
var error = null; s.writeToFile_atomically_encoding_error(path,true,NSUTF8StringEncoding,error);
Neither work. The result is true and the error is null. The file just doesn't get written.
I am using Sketch 53 and I wrote the original script in the same version. I am on macOS Catalina (possibly I was on an older version at the time I wrote the script, if that matters).

Any tips?

harrison

Solved it. Reading around here https://github.com/ingrammicro/puzzle-publisher/blob/master/PuzzlePublisher.sketchplugin/Contents/Sketch/exporter/exporter.js I saw they initialized an error like this:

var error = MOPointer.alloc().init();

Doing so I was able to get an error in the var, which told me this:

Incorrect NSStringEncoding value 0x0000 detected. Assuming NSASCIIStringEncoding. Will stop this compatibility mapping behavior in the near future. error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=517 "The file “file.txt” couldn’t be saved using text encoding Western (ASCII)." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Users/xxxxxxx/Desktop/file.txt, NSStringEncoding=0}

So I just changed the writeToFile to this:

var result = s.writeToFile_atomically_encoding_error(path, true, 4, error);

(1 instead of UTFEncoding). Works for now.