Okay, so I decided to try to experiment with NSFilePromiseProvider, in order to 
replace some legacy code using old-fashioned drag-and-drop methods. However, 
for some reason, the drag-and-drop system seems to completely ignore my 
NSFilePromiseProviderDelegate methods, and calls the old-fashioned ones 
instead. If they’re not there, it throws an exception. What the heck?

Here’s the code:

import Cocoa

@NSApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
    @IBOutlet var outlineView: NSOutlineView?
    
    class Item: NSObject {
        @objc let name: String
        @objc let children: [Item]
        
        init(name: String, children: [Item] = []) {
            self.name = name
            self.children = children
            super.init()
        }
    }
    
    @IBOutlet weak var window: NSWindow!

    dynamic var items = [Item(name: "Foo"), Item(name: "Bar"), Item(name: 
"Baz", children: [Item(name: "Qux")])]

    func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) {
        self.outlineView?.setDraggingSourceOperationMask(.copy, forLocal: false)
    }
}

extension AppDelegate: NSOutlineViewDataSource {
    func outlineView(_ outlineView: NSOutlineView, pasteboardWriterForItem 
item: Any) -> NSPasteboardWriting? {
        return NSFilePromiseProvider(fileType: kUTTypePlainText as String, 
delegate: self)
    }
    
    // If this method doesn't exist, an exception is thrown on drag
    func outlineView(_ outlineView: NSOutlineView, 
namesOfPromisedFilesDroppedAtDestination dropDestination: URL, forDraggedItems 
items: [Any]) -> [String] {
        print("Why does this get called instead of my 
NSFilePromiseProviderDelegate methods?!")
        
        try! "foo".write(to: dropDestination.appendingPathComponent("foo.txt"), 
atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)
        return ["foo.txt"]
    }
}

extension AppDelegate: NSFilePromiseProviderDelegate {
    func filePromiseProvider(_ filePromiseProvider: NSFilePromiseProvider, 
fileNameForType fileType: String) -> String {
        print("fileNameForType: got called with type \(fileType)")
        return "foo.txt"
    }
    
    func filePromiseProvider(_ filePromiseProvider: NSFilePromiseProvider, 
writePromiseTo url: URL, completionHandler: @escaping (Error?) -> Void) {
        print("writePromiseTo: got called with URL \(url)")
        do {
            try "foo".write(to: url, atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)
            completionHandler(nil)
        } catch {
            completionHandler(error)
        }
    }
}

Output is:

Why does this get called instead of my NSFilePromiseProviderDelegate methods?!

I mean, it works, but it works using the older system. I want it to use the 
modern system. Why won’t it?

Charles
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