I think Sergey should be able to squeeze this into his schedule. We were looking at fixing plugin support and this could be a good way to start it.
-----Original Message----- From: Jesse [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 1:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Windows Phone binary bridge FYI, you can buy a no contract Nokia 520 WP8 device for $120, and developing in the emulator is more than sufficient for most tasks. Sergey, do you got this? @purplecabbage risingj.com On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Ian Clelland <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Sergey Grebnov (Akvelon) < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Agree and like this idea. I don't think there are many other > > components (if any) which use ArrayBuffer but must be tested well > > anyway since this changes core. Ian do you want to complete this > > yourself or you are ok if > I > > handle this? > > > > I'm totally okay with you doing it -- I don't have a real windows > phone device to test it on; I'd be committing with my eyes closed and > hoping for the best :) > > I think you're right that there aren't any other core plugins using > the binary bridge, but that could change, and there are probably > already third-party plugins using it. > > If we do this right, then other developers won't have to roll their > own solution in each case, and it will be easier to port the > third-party plugins to WP. > > Let me know if you need any support; I'll help if I can. > > Ian > > > > > > -Sergey > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of > Ian > > Clelland > > Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 7:37 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Windows Phone binary bridge > > > > As far as I can tell from reading its exec.js, WP8 does not have a > > binary bridge of any kind. Non-string data get JSON-serialized for transfer. > > > > The recent patch for CB-5532 broke the File plugin by explicitly > > casting ArrayBuffer data to Array type. Sergey's fixed it now, but > > the FileWriter JS code still has special cases for Windows and WP8 > > platforms. > > > > Would it make sense to have this code moved into the WP8 exec bridge? > Then > > it could apply to any plugins which transfer binary data, and any > improved > > transport methods would automatically be used by all plugins, rather > > than being a special case in each plugin. > > > > I don't know much about the Windows phone platform, so I could be > > completely off-base about this, but if it works, I think it'll make > > the implementation cleaner, and generally make Cordova better on the > platform. > > > > Ian > > >
