On Friday I finally committed the Android changes and the last of the iOS changes to the file plugin to the dev branch of cordova-plugin-file.
For those of you who haven't been following along, there are two big changes in this release: 1. The plugin is now modular; code that handles regular files on the filesystem is now separate from code that handles e.g., app assets. 2. FileEntry objects now use a new URL scheme: filesystem://localhost/<filesystemType>/<path to file>. These URLs are generated by all file operations, and are passed over the bridge to native code. (This is in contrast to the previous version, which passed around absolute paths on the device filesystem). For app developers: - If you have previously been storing file:/// urls on the device, and those files exist *outside* of the standard filesystem roots, (this should only be the case if you are manipulating the URLs that the File plugin sends back,) those URLs will almost certainly not work with filesystem operations in this new version. (For instance, you may still be able to set them as image sources, etc, but you won't be able to create readers or writers to them with the File API) - If you have been storing file:/// URLs that exist within the normal (temporary, persistent) filesystems, then they probably still work, as long as you are calling window.resolveLocalFileSystemURI on them to get FileEntries. You may find that they need to be converted to the new filesystem:// scheme for some operations -- if you do, then just call resolveLocalFileSystemURI on them, and use .toURL() on the entry that you get back. - If you just use window.requestFilesystem(), and traverse the filesystem from there, then you should see no changes at all. The values you will see if you call toURL() on any of the FileEntry or DirectoryEntry objects will be different than before, but will be accepted by any of the filesystem methods that take URLs. For cordova developers: I'm sure that, despite passing all of the original tests, and the tests that I've added, there are still some bugs lurking somewhere. If you have apps that use File or FileTransfer, please take some time to try them out with the dev version of File, and report any bugs that you find. Thanks! Ian
