Github user rakatyal commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/pull/170#discussion_r55904524 --- Diff: src/android/FileUtils.java --- @@ -347,18 +348,25 @@ else if (action.equals("write")) { threadhelper( new FileOp( ){ public void run(JSONArray args) throws JSONException, FileNotFoundException, IOException, NoModificationAllowedException { String fname=args.getString(0); + String nativeURL = resolveLocalFileSystemURI(fname).getString("nativeURL"); String data=args.getString(1); int offset=args.getInt(2); Boolean isBinary=args.getBoolean(3); - /* - * If we don't have the package name in the path, we're reading and writing to places we need permission for - */ - if(fname.contains(cordova.getActivity().getPackageName()) || - hasReadPermission()) { - long fileSize = write(fname, data, offset, isBinary); - callbackContext.sendPluginResult(new PluginResult(PluginResult.Status.OK, fileSize)); + + JSONObject j = requestAllPaths(); + String[] allowedStorageDirectories = {j.getString("applicationStorageDirectory"), j.getString("externalApplicationStorageDirectory")}; + boolean needWritePermission = true; + + // Ask for the write permission if the native url lies outside the allowed storage directories + for(String directory : allowedStorageDirectories) { + if(nativeURL.startsWith(directory) || hasWritePermission()) { --- End diff -- I don't think so. Can you think of a case this won't work?
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