Hi there, I'd like to discuss the revival of the cordova-plugin-file-transfer plugin. With the decision from 2017 it was sunsetted and the XHR/fetch alternative was proposed. [1], [2]
However, neither the plugin was deprecated on npm nor the GitHub repository archived. With the release of cordova-ios@6 it is no longer usable. [3] No surprise given the fact no work as has been done on the plugin in the recent years. However, it seems that 1. A lot of people are still relying on the plugin - the count of unique users that commented, opened a duplicate issue or reacted to comments is (IMHO) very high compared to other issues (and I read at least 90% of our newly opened issues). [3] 2. There are reasons to *not *use XHR/fetch. Personally, I've experienced out of memory issues which resulted in white screens and page reloads on iOS with big files. If it helps, I can try to provide an example app that showcases the issues with XHR/fetch. We've created a fork at work and applied a lot of the recent fixes we did for other plugins, too, such as removing deprecated platforms, migrating to @cordova/eslint, cleaning up the package.json files and npmignore list. I'm happy to contribute those commits back to the original plugin, as the work is done anyways. The same discussion could be applied to other plugins, too. There is a general tracking issue: [4], take a note at especially this comment [5] I'll link this mailing thread to the issue [4], too, and ask affected users to give some more input why they can't migrate to XHR/fetch, too. Looking forward to hearing from you and your opinions. Best, Tim Links: [1] - https://cordova.apache.org/blog/2017/10/18/from-filetransfer-to-xhr2.html [2] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-13052 [3] - https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer/issues/258 [4] - https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/185 [5] - https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues/185#issuecomment-569979586 -- Tim Brust, Product Engineer tim.br...@sinnerschrader.com SinnerSchrader Deutschland GmbH | SinnerSchrader Group Völckersstraße 38, 22765 Hamburg, Germany Amtsgericht Hamburg HRB-Nr. 63663 Geschäftsführer: Matthias Schrader (Sprecher), Jürgen Alker, Dr. Axel Averdung, Holger Blank, Thomas Dyckhoff, Dr. Lars Finke, Martin Gassner, Peggy Hutchinson Büros: Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt a. M., München, Prag https://www.sinnerschrader.com | NEXT AGENCY
