Love it. Now that this business is independently versioned I say we charge ahead with the changes ruthlessly. This is the most adopted plugin and long standing PITA!
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Ian Clelland <[email protected]> wrote: > So, coming out of our meetup last week, we brainstormed a bunch of ideas > for improving the Cordova File plugin. I'm going to start working on these, > but I want to share with the list so that everybody knows what's going on, > and so we can have any additional discussions :) > > I think that we had general agreement on these points, but let's talk: > > 1. Entry.toURL() should return a filesystem:// URL on platforms which > support it. Platforms which cannot support custom URL protocols are free to > return URLs which *can* be used to access the local file system. > > 2. These URLs will look like: > > filesystem://localhost/persistent/path/to/file.ext > filesystem://localhost/temporary/path/to/file.ext > > Additional roots are possible for new file systems (assets, media, > documents, etc) > > (The specific format used does not need to conform to any existing or > proposed standard, since these URLs should not be assumed valid across > machines) > > 3. Entry.fullFath will be relative to the HTML file system root, and not a > path from the root of the actual device file system. > > 4. Only URLs will be passed over the exec bridge; we won't be passing raw > file system paths into and out of JS anymore. (This generally means > filesystem:// URLs in the iOS/Android case, but platforms are free to > support other URLs as needed) > > 5. At some point (not right now) we should move the permanent storage > location on iOS from <app-root>/Documents to <app-root>/Library, so that > the entire HTML5 file system doesn't get exposed in iTunes, synced with > iCloud, etc. This will almost certainly require a major version change and > a migration plan for existing apps, so I'd like to separate that work from > the first four points. > > We also discussed shipping a new API with Cordova, get*Directory(), which > is currently in the File-extras plugin. After some thinking, I think it's > not really required, but I'm open to talking about it. I'll start another > thread for it. > > Ian >
