how does one check if UIWebView is empty or not

Question

I need to check if a webview when completed loading has any content or not.

What I require is simple. Its a small webview strip at the bottom of my pages (like an advert

Answer 1

In my case, I was looking to detect if the PDF was malformed. I.e., the web view would be empty because the PDF could not be loaded. Since with iOS 7.1.1, I wasn't getting the didFailLoadWithError delegate callback, I needed a different way to do this. I ended up using the method below before attempting to load the PDF doc into the web view.

// See https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/graphicsimaging/conceptual/drawingwithquartz2d/dq_pdf/dq_pdf.html
- (BOOL) isValidPDFDoc: (NSURL *) deviceLocalURL {
    CFStringRef path;
    CFURLRef url;
    CGPDFDocumentRef document;
    size_t count;
    BOOL validDocument = YES;

    // Must use path of URL not absoluteString here.
    path = CFStringCreateWithCString (NULL, [[deviceLocalURL path] cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding],
                                      kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
    url = CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath (NULL, path, // 1
                                         kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle, 0);
    CFRelease (path);
    document = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL (url);// 2
    if (!document) {
        validDocument = NO;
    }

    CFRelease(url);
    count = CGPDFDocumentGetNumberOfPages (document);// 3
    if (count == 0) {
        validDocument = NO;
    }

    CGPDFDocumentRelease (document);

    return validDocument;
}