I’ve added this detail to the MDN page for enumerate page; let me know if I need to make any more updates in light of this discussion.
cheers, Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills > On 2 Nov 2015, at 00:35, Jovan Gerodetti <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't find the explanation on MDN right now, but you need to omitt the > leading / > > 2015-11-02 9:24 GMT+01:00 <[email protected]>: > Le lundi 2 novembre 2015 08:31:30 UTC+1, Jovan Gerodetti a écrit : > > No, what .enumerate() let's you do, is to get all files and subdirectories > > from a path. So if you enumerate /your-app-name/files/picture/ you'll get > > all the files of that directory. But if you enumerate / you'll get the > > entire storage. > > > > > > > > 2015-11-01 21:02 GMT+01:00 <[email protected]>: > > Le dimanche 1 novembre 2015 20:56:00 UTC+1, [email protected] a écrit : > > > > > Le dimanche 1 novembre 2015 10:45:20 UTC+1, Jovan Gerodetti a écrit : > > > > > > What he is saying is basically not true. See > > > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DeviceStorage/enumerate > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2015-11-01 10:38 GMT+01:00 <[email protected]>: > > > > > > I recently came accross this blog post. This guy is a developer & he > > > > coded apps for fxos. He is stating that device storage api is > > > > problematic. Read the article here > > > > www.firefoxoscentral.com/2015/10/meet-the-devs-developer-interview-tfe-server/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > dev-fxos mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > Sorry for not posting in this forum before, i didn't knew the existence > > > of this forum before this post :). > > > > > > > > > > So i was talking about the enumerate call. > > > > > Maybe it is a bug with the implementation of my FOS version: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So the calling mysdcard.enumerate('/') > > > > > should return an enumeration of all files and accounts in the root > > > directory, am i right? > > > > > > > > > > Strange things is that when i call it with '/', '/faildirectory', > > > ['/test_with_arrays'], it always return a cursor with all the files and > > > directories, without any filter of the path. > > > > > > > > > > Let me know if i am doing something wrong (surely). > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for all your work, > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > tfe > > > > > > > > Had to mention too, that i gived up with my tries to use the enumerate with > > path calls, when i saw how it was not used by the "most used" file manager > > on firefoxos: > > > > https://github.com/elfoxero/file-manager/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=enumerate > > > > Basically it think he is thinking the same as me: that there is no way get > > files/directories of only one directory, so he is caching all the result. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > dev-fxos mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > Yes, in theory, but when calling the call you are giving me, it just give me > all the files, prefixed by '/your-app-name/files/picture. > > Here is a pastebin with my simple test: > http://pastebin.com/TVBxKmwk > > Am i doing something wrong? > > Thanks, > > -- > tfe > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
