UIDocumentPickerViewController export deprecated in iOS 14

UIDocumentPickerViewController isn’t deprecated as a whole. Rather, various init methods have been deprecated in favour of replacemetns that work in terms of the types defined in UniformTypeIdentifiers framework. For example, init(documentTypes:in:) has been deprecated in favour of init(forOpeningContentTypes:asCopy:).

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Thanks for the reply! I don't see anything having to do with export in UIDocumentPickerViewController class definition though, so how should the following be done in iOS 14?

UIDocumentPickerViewController(url: exportUrl, in: .exportToService)


Thanks again,

Jim

Yeah, something weird is going on here. On the Objective-C side I see two initialisers that allow for export:

• -initForExportingURLs:asCopy:

• -initForExportingURLs:

These are marked as NS_REFINED_FOR_SWIFT, so they’re not directly available to Swift. However, I can’t find the corresponding Swift-specific initialisers.

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Ah, some digging reveals that this is a known bug (r. 64441569). These methods were not supposed to be marked as NS_REFINED_FOR_SWIFT. Please retest this with any future Xcode 12 beta seeds that come down the pike.

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Sweet, thanks for digging into that!

Is there also anywhere a documentation? What is initForOpeningContentTypes: doing, copying or moving?