uiimagepickercontroller - get the name of the image selected from photo library

Question

I am trying to upload the image from my iPhone/iPod touch to my online repository, I have successfully picked the image from Photo Album but i am facing one problem i want to know the name of the image such as image1.jpg or some thing like that. How i would know the name of the picked image.

Elma

How did you pick the image? You may have actually given a file path there rite? – Invite

Answer 1

I guess knowing the exact image name would not be an issue rather getting a unique name for the picked image would solve your purpose so that you can upload the image on server and track it via its name. May be this can help you

NSMutableString *imageName = [[[NSMutableString alloc] initWithCapacity:0] autorelease];

CFUUIDRef theUUID = CFUUIDCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault);
if (theUUID) {
    [imageName appendString:NSMakeCollectable(CFUUIDCreateString(kCFAllocatorDefault, theUUID))];
            CFRelease(theUUID);
}
[imageName appendString:@".png"];

After you pick the image from Picker you can generate a unique name and assign it to the Picked image. Cheers

Concoct

I think its not possible to get the exact name of the image from photo library. – Elma

Answer 2

Instead of using the usual image picker method (UIImage*)[info valueForKey:UIImagePickerOriginalImage] which gives you the selected image as an instance of UIImage, you can use the AssetsLibrary.framework and export the actual source file (including format, name and all metadata). This also has the advantage of the original file format (png or jpg) being preserved.

#import <AssetsLibrary/AssetsLibrary.h>

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info {
    [self dismissPicker];
    // try to get media resource (in case of a video)
    NSURL *resourceURL = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL];
    if(resourceURL) {
        // it's a video: handle import
        [self doSomethingWith:resourceURL];
    } else {
        // it's a photo
        resourceURL = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL];

        ALAssetsLibrary *assetLibrary = [ALAssetsLibrary new];
        [assetLibrary assetForURL:resourceURL
                      resultBlock:^(ALAsset *asset) {
                          // get data
                          ALAssetRepresentation *assetRep = [asset defaultRepresentation];
                          CGImageRef cgImg = [assetRep fullResolutionImage];
                          NSString *filename = [assetRep filename];
                          UIImage *img = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:cgImg];
                          NSData *data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(img);
                          NSString *cacheDir = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) lastObject];
                          NSURL *tempFileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[cacheDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:filename]];
                          BOOL result = [data writeToFile:tempFileURL.path atomically:YES];
                          if(result) {
                              // handle import
                              [self doSomethingWith:resourceURL];
                              // remove temp file
                              result = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtURL:tempFileURL error:nil];
                              if(!result) { NSLog(@"Error removing temp file %@", tempFileURL); }
                          }
                      }
                     failureBlock:^(NSError *error) {
                         NSLog(@"%@", error);
                     }];
        return;
    }
}

Tera

What's the purpose of creating a temp file when you already have all the data you need? – Refine

Indeed not required for this snippet. It ended up here because I usually prefer to pass a rather small URL than huge objects to avoid memory pressure that might crash older devices. – Tera