Kingfisher and SMBClient (https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/SMBClient)

[Torrontes123]

Ï'm developing an iOS application which uses Kingfisher pretty heavily, and currently leverages the infrastructure provided by the Files app to access images in shared folders in a LAN. Kingfisher is a crucial piece, as it handles all caching and prefetching. My app works decently as it is, but managing bookmarks is not ideal from the point of view of UX (for reasons that would take me too far afield to discuss here). However, I've just become aware of the existence of the SMBClient package, which looks great, as it is under MIT license and, unlike other solutions, has no problematic dependencies from the point of view of licensing and the App Store, and would allow me to bypass a number of complications. I'm wondering how it could be made to work with Kingfisher. As things stand right now, I am only using the default ImageDownloader, and I wonder if the best way to proceed would be to subclass it, overriding the relevant methods to handle smb URLs and passing other URLs to the default ImageDownloader, and then initializing KingfisherManager with an instance of that subclass, and proceeding similarly with ImagePrefetcher. Does this sound like a sensible thing to attempt? Are there other alternative possibilities? I'll be happy to clarify or provide further details if necessary. Thanks in advance.

[onevcat]

The simplest approach would be to use ImageDataProvider (https://swiftpackageindex.com/onevcat/kingfisher/master/documentation/kingfisher/topic_imagedataprovider). It lets you fully customize the data source. You just need to define a cache key (like a filename or a URL) and a way to retrieve the data (for example, using SMBClient). Then, you can directly benefit from other Kingfisher features, such as caching and processing.

[Torrontes123]

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll look into that.

[Torrontes123]

Your suggestion worked great. Thank you very much.