🚧 WIP: macOS trash "put back" feature [ctypes]

[acheronfail]

This is a WIP!

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This is my initial attempt at using ctypes, just putting it up online so we have a record of it, and also to help catch if I've done anything wrong.

I was hopeful about the progress I was making, until I came across some hurdles that have blocked this approach. At the moment running it causes a segmentation fault (I believe because of the incorrectly initialised AEDesc). We need:

• Need to find a way to initialise:
  • AEDesc
  • AEDataStorage
• Need to confirm how the following values should be defined:
  • typeKernelProcessID
  • typeWildCard
  • keyDirectObject
  • pid_t

If this turns out to be too arch-dependent, or too much of a hack, I'll open a different PR using some compiled Objective-C.

Fixes #9.

/cc @BoboTiG @hsoft

[acheronfail]

In the meantime, I'll investigate other methods of asking Finder to trash the file - maybe there's another way where we don't have to use AEDesc structs and so forth.

[ghost]

Looks like you're well started. It will be a nice feature to have!

I don't have a Mac to test on anymore though. It would be great if someone could volunteer to test @acheronfail's code.

[acheronfail]

I've just found this: https://github.com/sindresorhus/macos-trash which may actually be a lot easier than the way we're doing it now, I'll give it a crack and update here.

[ghost]

See? I told you there was a better way :) If it works, it will indeed be much easier and faster.

[acheronfail]

Ahh, I missed this issue on their tracker: sindresorhus/macos-trash#4 👎

[ghost]

Whoa, good job Apple... At least I know that I wasn't dreaming when I thought I remembered send2trash working with "Put Back" in the good old days.

[acheronfail]

I've even tried things like https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsworkspace/1530465-recycleurls?language=objc and I'm having no such luck, even running straight Objective-C code.

Looks like this is actually an Apple bug, and running it using event descriptors (like https://github.com/ali-rantakari/trash/blob/master/trash.m#L265-L340) might be the only legitimate to get this to work. :sigh: thanks for that Apple!