On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > ). >
Thanks for the tip. It looks like for remote files, mozplugger is creating the tmpfile in <instancedir>/tmp, and somehow, the ds is not creating a copy of that file (I get a journal entry, but there's no file which is loaded subsequently by Read) Disabling security, or saving a local file seems to work fine though. I'm using the same code as in copy-to-journal Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
