Mailing Logs

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Zipping up the logs

We need to find the directory for the logs first, so we create a couple of helper methods:

- (NSString *)cachesDirectory {
    return NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES)[0];
}

- (NSString *)logsDirectory {
    return [[self cachesDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Logs"];
}

With the directory well known, we can now zip up all of the text files in the directory:

- (NSData *)zipLogs {
    NSString *logsDir = [self logsDirectory];
    NSArray *files = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:logsDir error:nil];
    NSPredicate *textFilePredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"self ENDSWITH '.txt'"];
    files = [files filteredArrayUsingPredicate:textFilePredicate];

    NSString *logZipPath = [logsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"logs.zip"];
    if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:logZipPath]) {
        [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtPath:logZipPath error:nil];
    }

    NSMutableArray *inputFiles = [NSMutableArray array];
    for (NSString *file in files) {
        [inputFiles addObject:[logsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:file]];
    }

    [SSZipArchive createZipFileAtPath:logZipPath withFilesAtPaths:inputFiles];
    NSData *zipData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:logZipPath];
    [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtPath:logZipPath error:nil];
    return zipData;
}

Sending the email with an attachment

We first need to check if the device can even send mail. This is important because not all devices have mail accounts set up. Once we've verified this, we can zip up the logs asynchronously, set up the default values for the email, and present the composer.

- (IBAction)mailLogs:(id)sender {
    if (![MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail]) {
        [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Can't send email"
                                    message:@"Please set up your mail account first"
                                   delegate:nil
                          cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
                          otherButtonTitles:nil] show];
        return;
    }

    dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0);
    dispatch_async(queue, ^{
        NSData *zipFileData = [self zipLogs];

        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            MFMailComposeViewController *mailVC = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
            [mailVC setSubject:@"Application Logs"];
            [mailVC setToRecipients:@[@"email@example.com"]];
            [mailVC setMessageBody:@"Please find the attached logs" isHTML:NO];
            [mailVC addAttachmentData:zipFileData
                             mimeType:@"application/zip"
                             fileName:@"logs.zip"];

            [mailVC setMailComposeDelegate:self];

            [self presentViewController:mailVC animated:YES completion:nil];
        });
    });
}

Mailing Logs

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Zipping up the logs

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