await _secureBookmarks.resolveBookmark(bookmark); should automatically detect the correct FileSystemEntity before returning it.
I don't know if isDirectory needs to be set to true before knowing the particular path represented. (after the resolution)

Also, the fact that isDirectory is optional makes the option hidden for new users.

I think isDirectory should disappear and resolveBookmark need to be smarter during the resolution.

I'm now working with MacOS app and this package is very helpful to access files outside sandbox environment.

However, once I removed a bookmarked file and try to resolve its bookmark,
resolveBookmark process not ended.

To make matters worse is it cannot be caught by Future.timeout,
perhaps because it runs on Platform side and no signals are sent to Dart side until bookmark resolved.

So I think timeout should be implemented in Swift, and given to Dart as an argument.

I would appreciate it if you could consider.

the different functions should return MacOSSecureBookmarks and not String so they don't get confused in the code with file paths

typedef MacOSSecureBookmarks = String;

When you pass in a File that you don't have a bookmark for to startAccessingSecurityScopedResource, the error message says

expected file argument to be string

When the actual problem is that you don't have a bookmark for this file. Since the API allows arbitrary files to be passed in, it would be great if the error message was better for this situation.

I'm not familiar with Swift so I don't really want to fix it myself, but I'm happy to send a PR to update the documentation if you don't want to fix this.

Thanks! Super happy I found this plugin.

Thanks for this great plugin. I however get an error whenever i invoke (start or stop) resource access methods prior to using the resource.

i successfully get a bookmark, and i am certain that the file i pass to the

await _secureBookmarksInstance.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource(file);

method is not null.

i also made sure to add the following entitlements to both debug and release .entitlements

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>com.apple.security.app-sandbox</key>
	<true/>
	<key>com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit</key>
	<true/>
	<key>com.apple.security.network.server</key>
	<true/>
	<key>com.apple.security.network.client</key>
	<true/>
	<key>com.apple.security.files.bookmarks.app-scope</key>
	<true/>
	<key>com.apple.security.device.usb</key>
	<true/>

</dict>
</plist>

the error is:

[ERROR:flutter/lib/ui/ui_dart_state.cc(209)] Unhandled Exception: PlatformException(InvalidArguments, expected file argument to be string., null, null)
#0 StandardMethodCodec.decodeEnvelope (package:flutter/src/services/message_codecs.dart:607:7)
#1 MethodChannel._invokeMethod (package:flutter/src/services/platform_channel.dart:167:18)

#2 SecureBookmarks.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource (package:macos_secure_bookmarks/macos_secure_bookmarks.dart:39:12)

#3 _MyHomePageState._requestAccessToDirectory (package:cc_macos/main.dart:177:5)

the readme is not correct:

// resolve bookmark from persistet 'bookmark' string from earlier
final resolvedFile = await _secureBookmarks.resolveBookmark(_bookmark);
// resolved is now a File object, but before accessing it, call:
await startAccessingSecurityScopedResource(resolvedFile);

should be:

// resolve bookmark from persistet 'bookmark' string from earlier
final resolvedFile = await _secureBookmarks.resolveBookmark(_bookmark);
// resolved is now a File object, but before accessing it, call:
await _secureBookmarks.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource(resolvedFile);

MissingPluginException when using flutter test

    return await _secureBookmarks.bookmark(fileSystemEntity);

MissingPluginException (MissingPluginException(No implementation found for method bookmarkData on channel codeux.design/macos_secure_bookmarks))

Im getting this error when trying to run on macOS, some help would be appreciated

SecureBookmarksPlugin.swift:60:15: error: initializer for conditional binding must
have Optional type, not 'URL'
[        ]         guard let url = try URL(resolvingBookmarkData: bookmark, options: .withSecurityScope, bookmarkDataIsStale: &isStale) else {
[        ]               ^