Code sample: NSError and Swift 2.0

This is a follow up on a previous post about the NSError (pointer).

In Swift 2.0 the NSError in the NSFileManager calls have been replaced with try blocks.

Here is how Swift 2.0 implements the NSError in try blocks:

    lazy private var applicationSupportLogfileDirectory: String? = {

        let fileManager = NSFileManager.defaultManager()

        

        do {

            let applicationSupportDirectory =

                try fileManager.URLForDirectory(

                    NSSearchPathDirectory.ApplicationSupportDirectory,

                    inDomain: NSSearchPathDomainMask.UserDomainMask,

                    appropriateForURL: nil,

                    create: true).path!

                

            let appName = NSProcessInfo.processInfo().processName

            let dirUrl = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: applicationSupportDirectory, isDirectory: true).URLByAppendingPathComponent(appName)

            return dirUrl.URLByAppendingPathComponent("Logfiles").path

        } catch let error as NSError {

        

            let message: String = "Could not get application support directory, error = " + (error.localizedDescription ?? "Unknown reason")

            return nil

        }

    }()

Or without all the verbose stuff:

        do {

            

            try NSFileManager.defaultManager()...some file manager call that throws an error

                

            ...

        } catch let error as NSError {

        

            print "Could not ... " + (error.localizedDescription ?? "Unknown reason")

        }

Happy coding...

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