Ian Clelland created CB-6106: -------------------------------- Summary: File needs a method to get a webview-native URL from an Entry Key: CB-6106 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6106 Project: Apache Cordova Issue Type: Bug Components: Android, iOS, Plugin File Affects Versions: 3.4.0 Reporter: Ian Clelland Assignee: Ian Clelland
I was really, really hoping to avoid having to include this in the API, but it appears that there are some WebView interfaces (specifically {{<video>}} and {{<audio>}} HTML tags) which cannot be made to work with {{cdvfile://}} URLs. (See CB-6079 for the issue which triggered this revelation) I'm going to create a method ({{toNativeURL}}) on Entry objects, inherited by DirectoryEntry and FileEntry, which exposes a URL that can be used as a {{src}} attribute for an HTML5 media player. Usage: {code} requestFileSystem(PERSISTENT, 0, function(fs) { fs.root.getFile("movie.mp4", {}, function(entry) { alert(entry.toNativeURL()); document.getElementById('my-video-player').src=entry.toNativeURL(); }); }); {code} Developers will be able to use this in all cases where they need to set the src of an HTML audio/video tag, or in any other cases where the WebView doesn't correctly proxy URL requests through the app. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)