We've added a way to send binary data across the android and ios bridge (ArrayBuffers are a supported argument/message type).
If you wanted to write a simple plugin to support writing binary data to disk, it should be quite easy. Note: There are various limitations to the current way we send ArrayBuffers, such as being limited to very small sizes per call. We are soon going to be working on improvements here, expect JIRA issues and tests to come soon. -Michal On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Lorin Beer <lorin.beer....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I was going through the unassigned jira issues, and came across > CB-2406<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2406> > ((https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2406), which requests a method > to write binary data to disk. Before commenting to the user on the issue, I > thought I'd get some feedback from you guys. > > My feeling is that while there might be a use case or two, specifying a > binary write mode doesn't fit in with the W3C FileWriter > api<http://www.w3.org/TR/file-writer-api/#idl-def-FileWriter>, > and shouldn't be a change to the File API of cordova. As such, the issue > should probably be closed. > > The way in which the user would/should accomplish this kind of > functionality would be to create a very simple plugin which takes a hex > string and uses the native file writer api to open in binary mode. > > Before commenting to the user on the issue, I thought I'd get some feedback > from you guys. > > > - Lorin >
