No, no spec, the issue was a File API issue, and the file-transfer plugin inherits some of the conventions. We can choose to make file-transfer it's own (higher level) thing with it's own conventions, or we can aim for cohesiveness ... the original design was based on being cohesive, I think.
@purplecabbage risingj.com On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Ian Clelland <[email protected]>wrote: > There's a spec? I thought filetransfer was something that PhoneGap > introduced. > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Originally WP8 was creating any missing intermediate folders, but this > was > > raised as a defect because the spec explicitly states it should produce > an > > error in this case. > > Trying to dig up the issue ... > > > > > > @purplecabbage > > risingj.com > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:07 PM, James Jong <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I think iOS attempts to create the directory first. > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer/blob/master/src/ios/CDVFileTransfer.m#L660 > > > -James Jong > > > > > > On Apr 16, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Shazron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Additional info: > > > > iOS will not create intermediate folders for download(), they must > > > already > > > > exist > > > > (based on my tests with NSFileManager > > > createFileAtPath:contents:attributes > > > > call that is used by FileTransfer.download()) > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:57 AM, 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. > > > >> > > > > > > > > >
