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Filip Maj updated CB-285:
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Priority: Major (was: Blocker)
I agree this is an important feature, but I think we need to carefully frame
the problem.
What exactly do you mean by "root"? Root of the application location, or root
of the device file system? Why exactly do you need the "root" location? My
point is, are you simply looking for a permanent / persistent location on the
device to write and read files from, for use with your app? If so, then we have
an existing method ([window.requestFileSystem and the
LocalFileSystemhttp://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.4.1/phonegap_file_file.md.html#LocalFileSystem])
that can get you both a temporary and a persistent file system location
independent of your device.
The trickiness with asking for "root" is the differing security constraints
across all of the Cordova platforms.
My opinion is, if you are looking for a "safe" location to read and write files
to in a cross-platform way, I would use the requestFileSystem method and work
from there. If there are issues with using this method, then we should figure
those out, instead of adding a new property somewhere to the Cordova API.
Actually this issue coincidentally is timed very well as we are just starting a
discussion about what, if any, abstraction over file system URIs are needed in
Cordova. The discussion starts
[here|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-callback-dev/201202.mbox/%3ccadjnb+nsrj2v-sfptwrhuadstsrknbdfclo-nijw-lwqpld...@mail.gmail.com%3E]
- feel free to chime in.
> Add property returning root path of PhoneGap files
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>
> Key: CB-285
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-285
> Project: Apache Callback
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: CordovaJS
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0
> Environment: Both PhoneGap SDK and PhoneGap Build
> Reporter: Ashley Gullen
> Labels: features
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> There needs to be a property in PhoneGap that returns the root path to the
> general files added to the PhoneGap project (i.e. the directory index.html is
> in). For example, if I add 'music.mp3' to my project, in Android it will be
> located in:
> /android_asset/www/music.mp3
> On iOS after being built with PhoneGap Build it will be located in some path
> like this:
> /var/mobile/Applications/<app_ID>/<name>.app/www/music.mp3
> However, there does not appear to be a programmatic way to determine both
> <app_ID> and <name>.app.
> This has two side effects:
> 1. Paths to audio for Media must be hard-coded separately depending on the
> platform, which is inconvenient.
> 2. Paths to audio for Media cannot be known if developing a framework that
> uses PhoneGap. Since a framework does not know the App ID or name in
> advance, it's impossible for the framework to determine the correct path.
> This is actively blocking audio from working on iOS in PhoneGap projects
> exported by Construct 2 (www.scirra.com), a HTML5 game creator. Also, it
> seems like kind of an important function to make available anyway, since
> hard-coding paths for each platform is a pain.
> This PhoneGap Support thread led to this issue:
> http://phonegap.tenderapp.com/discussions/questions/208-android_asset-equivalent-for-ios
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