(FWIW, I've assumed any bug is up for grabs if it isn't marked "in
progress", regardless of who is assigned.)
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I assigned it to David just because I thought it would be a good bug for
> him and thought it sounded important to fix. I don't think he's in any
> hurry to get to it, so feel free to assign it to yourself. I don't really
> consider bugs to be actually assigned when they are assigned to the default
> person since it's not clear that anyone's looked at it. Maybe it'd be worth
> having new bugs come in as "unassigned", so that when someone assigns it,
> it's more meaningful. I'll start another thread to discuss this idea.
>
> Anyways, I've thought a good amount about this problem previously (what to
> do with relative URLs), and I think the best solution is to resolve
> relative URLs in JS. iOS also has no good way of resolving relative URLs
> from native. I added a function to do just that in this release -
> require('cordova/urlutil').makeAbsolute(url)
>
> I'll make a note of this on the bug.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm currently trying to figure out CB-4858, which got assigned to
> > David, but I'm finding that I'm getting stuck at this part:
> >
> >
> > private String updateUrl(String url) {
> > Uri newUrl = Uri.parse(url);
> > if (newUrl.isRelative()) {
> > //url = this.webView.getUrl().substring(0,
> > this.webView.getUrl().lastIndexOf("/")+1) + url;
> > }
> > return url;
> > }
> >
> > The problem with this code is that all methods on the WebView class
> > must run on the UI thread. Now, there's no easy way for us to pass
> > this data back because now we're doing asynchronous Java where we have
> > to wait for the UI thread to give us back the URL so we can find out
> > what our base path is.
> >
> > We could override this in CordovaWebView, getting around the check,
> > but I think that this might not be the right thing to do.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm content letting David chew on this, since I didn't know it
> > got assigned to him (JIRA didn't send me the e-mail), but I'd be
> > interested in seeing how this gets solved, because it's particularly
> > ugly.
> >
>
