init(symbolicLinkWithDestination:)

Declaration

convenience init(symbolicLinkWithDestination path: String)

Parameters

• path:

  Pathname the receiver is to represent.

Return Value

Initialized symbolic-link file wrapper referencing node.

Discussion

The receiver is not associated to a file-system node until you save it using write(toFile:atomically:updateFilenames:). It’s also initialized with open permissions; anyone can read or write the disk representations it saves.

Special Considerations

Beginning with OS X v10.6, the preferred method of referring to files is with a file:// URL. Therefore, this method has been deprecated in favor of init(symbolicLinkWithDestinationURL:).

See Also

Related Documentation

• preferredFilename
• filename
• fileAttributes

Creating File Wrappers

• init(url:options:)
• init(path:)
• init(directoryWithFileWrappers:)
• init(regularFileWithContents:)
• init(symbolicLinkWithDestinationURL:)
• init(serializedRepresentation:)