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Hi All,

I'm porting a Mac application that gets/sets file creation and modification dates via FileManager. I get an inscrutable thrown error in setAttributes (when the attributes dictionary is non-empty), and an empty response to attributesOfItem. Is it expected that these are unimplemented, or am I missing something. I'm using the latest 5.3 on swift.org on Ubuntu 20.4.

//
//  FileFixer.swift
//  FixEncodedDate
//
//  Created by William Dillon on 1/9/21.
//

import Foundation

public func fixFileDate(url: URL, date: Date) throws {
    try FileManager().setAttributes(
            [FileAttributeKey.creationDate: date,
             FileAttributeKey.modificationDate: date],
            ofItemAtPath: url.path
    )
}

public func getFileDate(url: URL) throws -> Date? {
    let attributes = try FileManager().attributesOfItem(atPath: url.path)

    return attributes[FileAttributeKey.creationDate] as? Date
}
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Reading through the code in GitHub, I can see that creationDate is unimplemented, so I removed that key in both instances and it still throws:

<EXPR>:0: error: LibTimeTurnerTests.testDateFixer : threw error "Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=512 "(null)""

3

There was a bug (fixed in Swift 5.4) where setting the modification date could fail:

https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/pull/2904

If this is the same issue on Ubuntu 20.4, there's a possible workaround here (i.e. rounding dates to the nearest second).

4

Ah! That explains why when I was copy/pasting code into my project to debug it I couldn't reproduce... I was copying from main. Thanks!