Am 10.10.2008 um 23:24 schrieb Sayamindu Dasgupta: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> The sugar-almanac has a nice guide on how put stuff inside the >>> datastore programmatically >>> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar.datastore.datastore#How_do_I_save_a_simple_text_file_to_the_datastore.3F >>> >>> ) >>> However, it makes the assumption that the method is being called >>> from >>> a sugar activity. (file_path = >>> os.path.join(self.get_activity_root(), >>> 'instance', filename)) >>> Can anyone tell me where to put in a file if I am not calling this >>> from within an activity ? >> >> afaik you can put it wherever you like. copy-to-journal for example >> is >> just writing an existing file to the DS... >> > > Yes - but in my case, I have a file in tmp (created by mozplugger) > which I need to move to the journal. I can't keep the file in tmp (as > in copy-to-journal), since it may get deleted, and I can't write in > random places in /home/olpc (rainbow might not like that). In that > case, what would be the safest place to store the file ?
The datastore will make a copy - don't worry, just hand it the file from /tmp. Btw, rainbow only isolates activities, so if your code is not running from an activity you can freely write in the olpc home directory. However, if I understand correctly you are in mozplugger which is running inside the Browse activity so you could use the activity root directory if indeed needed (see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#File_Access ). - Bert - _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
