iPhone - NSData from local file's URL

Question

I have a NSURL object which gives me the path of a local file (in documents folder). I want to populate an NSData object with the contents of this file

Answer 1

To get this work you just need to do:

NSURL *imgPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"search" withExtension:@"png"];
NSString*stringPath = [imgPath absoluteString]; //this is correct  

//you can again use it in NSURL eg if you have async loading images and your mechanism 
//uses only url like mine (but sometimes i need local files to load)
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:stringPath]];
UIImage *ready = [[[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data] autorelease];