Johann Ish created CB-6439:
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Summary: Re-expose the device absolute path
Key: CB-6439
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6439
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Plugin File
Reporter: Johann Ish
Priority: Minor
To prevent coupling, this plugin should again expose a way to get the absolute
path to a file on the device. While it breaks from the W3C File API standard,
it allows for a cleaner design as third-party plugins don't have to be coupled
with the File plugin.
I ran into this issue after updating the File plugin and in conjunction with
the EmailComposer plugin (http://plugins.cordova.io/#/package/emailcomposer).
That plugin expects attachment paths to be absolute (fully-qualified) on the
device. Because the File plugin no longer provides any way to get the absolute
path, the two options I've found for a plugin such as EmailComposer are:
# Allow paths relative to the `NSBundle bundlePath` and let the user of the
plugin guess at where the File plugin put them (e.g., "../Library"), or
# Check to see if the File plugin is loaded and ask it to read the file.
Both of these are workable solutions, but (1) is just brittle, and (2) requires
some coupling at the Objective-C level and intimate knowledge of the File
plugin.
See also my comment on the "emailcomposer" plugin at
https://github.com/steve-jansen/cordova-ios-emailcomposer/issues/6#issuecomment-40287410
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