Fed up with different/inconsistent/non-existent SDKs for cloud file storage services? Try GDFileManagerKit! GDFileManagerKit lets you access Dropbox, Google Drive, SugarSync and WebDAV with a consistent, NSFileManager-like API.

Features of GDFileManagerKit include:

• Persistent cached file metadata. Old metadata is re-validated where possible making API calls more efficient.
• Cached file downloads.
• Chunked upload / downloads where available for reliability in intermittently connected environments.
• Copy/Delete/Move file operations.
• Aliases to keep track of files if the user moves / renames them remotely (requires a file service that supports persistent file identifiers like Google Drive or SugarSync).

GDFileManagerKit is currently beta-quality software, but I am using it in my app PocketBib. See my blog post for details.

Screenshots

File service list. To add an account, tap the 'plus' button.

Adding an account...

Downloading a file. (To upload a test file, tap the 'plus' button in the left navigation bar).

Usage

Get the contents of a directory:

[[GDFileManager sharedManager] getContentsOfDirectoryAtURL:url success:^(NSArray *contents) {
    for (GDURLMetadata *metadata in contents) {
        NSLog(@"Found %@ called \"%@\"", [metadata isDirectory] ? @"folder" : @"file", metadata.filename);
    }

} failure:^(NSError *error) {
    NSLog(@"error: %@", error);
}];

Check the local cache for the file, download it if it has been updated, and cache the result:

GDFileManager *fileManager = [GDFileManager new];
GDFileManagerDownloadOperation *downloadOperation = [fileManager cachedDownloadOperationFromSourceURL:url
                                                                   success:^(NSURL *localURL, GDURLMetadata *metadata) {
                                                                       NSLog(@"success: %@; metadata = %@", localURL, metadata);
                                                                   } failure:^(NSError *error) {
                                                                       if ([[error domain] isEqualToString:NSURLErrorDomain] && [error code] == NSURLErrorCancelled) {
                                                                       } else
                                                                           NSLog(@"download failed: %@", error);
                                                                   }];
[fileManager enqueueFileManagerOperation:downloadOperation];

To set your Dropbox API key:

[GDDropboxAPIToken registerTokenWithKey:@"<dropbox_key>"
                                 secret:@"<dropbox_secret>"
                                   root:GDDropboxRootDropbox]; // This token has access to the entire dropbox folder

See the included GDFileManagerExample for more examples. To run the demo app, run pod install, and then open GDFileManagerExample.xcworkspace and build.

Requirements

iOS 5.0+, uses a number of external libraries including AFNetworking 1.x, SSKeychain, AFOAuth2Client.

Installation

Author

Graham Dennis, [email protected]

License

GDFileManagerKit is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info. If you require a non-attribution license, please contact me at [email protected]