FileTransfer is supposed to be a dead simple helper, not a fundamental system api. So that suggests to me that we should prefer to auto-create.
-Michal On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Mike Billau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > When using FileTransfer.download(), if the target location contains folders > that do not exist on the device, should FileTransfer auto-magically mkdir > these folders to save the download? > > If target= /foo/image.png, and if /foo/ doesn't exist, Android will create > the /foo/ dir for you. WP8 doesn't seem to do this and will instead return > with an error. I don't know which implementation should be considered > "correct." It seems like a "good" dev should first check that the target > exists and create it before saving the image, but I'm all for making things > easier for the developer and just doing it auto-magically (I hate that > word...) > > I'm using 3.1 btw, sigh and sorry! Thanks everyone for your opinions. >
