---
title: dataRepresentation
framework: foundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: foundation/nsurl/datarepresentation
---

# dataRepresentation

The data representation of the URL’s relativeString.

## Declaration

```swift
var dataRepresentation: Data { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If the URL was initialized with initWithData:relativeToURL:, the data representation returned are the same bytes as those used at initialization; otherwise, the data representation returned are the bytes of the relativeString encoded with NSUTF8StringEncoding.

## See Also

### Creating a URL object

- [init(string:)](foundation/nsurl/init(string:).md)
- [init(string:encodingInvalidCharacters:)](foundation/nsurl/init(string:encodinginvalidcharacters:).md)
- [init(string:relativeTo:)](foundation/nsurl/init(string:relativeto:).md)
- [fileURL(withPath:isDirectory:)](foundation/nsurl/fileurl(withpath:isdirectory:).md)
- [init(fileURLWithPath:isDirectory:)](foundation/nsurl/init(fileurlwithpath:isdirectory:).md)
- [fileURL(withPath:relativeTo:)](foundation/nsurl/fileurl(withpath:relativeto:).md)
- [init(fileURLWithPath:relativeTo:)](foundation/nsurl/init(fileurlwithpath:relativeto:).md)
- [fileURL(withPath:isDirectory:relativeTo:)](foundation/nsurl/fileurl(withpath:isdirectory:relativeto:).md)
- [init(fileURLWithPath:isDirectory:relativeTo:)](foundation/nsurl/init(fileurlwithpath:isdirectory:relativeto:).md)
- [fileURL(withPath:)](foundation/nsurl/fileurl(withpath:).md)
- [init(fileURLWithPath:)](foundation/nsurl/init(fileurlwithpath:).md)
- [fileURL(withPathComponents:)](foundation/nsurl/fileurl(withpathcomponents:).md)
- [init(resolvingAliasFileAt:options:)](foundation/nsurl/init(resolvingaliasfileat:options:).md)
- [init(resolvingBookmarkData:options:relativeTo:bookmarkDataIsStale:)](foundation/nsurl/init(resolvingbookmarkdata:options:relativeto:bookmarkdataisstale:).md)
- [fileURL(withFileSystemRepresentation:isDirectory:relativeTo:)](foundation/nsurl/fileurl(withfilesystemrepresentation:isdirectory:relativeto:).md)