That only works if the provider's data exists somewhere that is
world-readable, which is basically only the media provider. It really
shouldn't be specified as a generic column, but something very specific to
the media provider. I would strongly recommend not using it.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Thanks! I never thought about going through the file-descriptor.
> But why is using the DATA column discouraged? It works fine and it's a
> public column (not part of a private API or such).
>
> On Nov 17, 12:42 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Streets Of Boston
> > <flyingdutc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > To get the fully qualified path-name to the image-file (jpg/png),
> > > query the Uri of the image and obtain the value of the DATA ("_data")
> > > column. This value is a String, the fully-qualified path to the image
> > > file. Then you can create a FileInputStream from this file.
> >
> > No, don't do this. Use ContentResolver.openFile() and create a
> > FileInputStream or whatever from the FileDescriptor:
> >
> > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/ContentProvide..
> .,
> > java.lang.String)
> >
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