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From: Simon MacDonald <simon.macdonald@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:59:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: Changes to requesting a PERSISTENT file system in Cordova-Android
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Yeah, I'm in favour of deprecating things as we go along and making the big
change for the 2.0 release as Michael suggested in a previous thread.

Simon Mac Donald
http://hi.im/simonmacdonald


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com> wrote:

> Agreed that "this will break what users have been doing before" is a bad
> thing.
>
> Seems like that is a common issue coming up recently (toURI vs toURL on
> Entry objects, now this).
>
> The arguments Joe presented to me on changing the location of the storage
> were compelling. Joe, can you reiterate them on the list so we all know
> what's up?
>
> I believe we need to change them eventually. Now how do we go about doing
> this? A deprecation-style message and a clear roadmap / delivery with a
> specific release?
>
> On 12-02-22 11:50 AM, "Simon MacDonald" <simon.macdonald@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I agree with your points but I'm worried that we are making a change for
> >current PhoneGap Android developers. They are assuming their data is on
> >the
> >/sdcard and now we are moving the location of their root filesystem. That
> >means they'll need to write code to move any files from the /sdcard to the
> >internal storage directory as they update their app from PhoneGap 1.4.1 to
> >Apache Cordova 1.5.0. Alternatively, we could put a check into Cordova to
> >do this work for them.
> >
> >IIRC the internal storage directory is protected via the UNIX filesystem
> >permissions so if I wanted to store a image/audio/video file and call an
> >intent to view/play the file it wouldn't work.
> >
> >Also, with the temporary storage on
> >/sdcard/Android/data/<package_name>/cache/ it will be cleaned up when the
> >user uninstalls the application.
> >
> >Anyway, I'm not adverse to making the move I just want to make sure we
> >think through all the ramifications of the change.
> >
> >Simon Mac Donald
> >http://hi.im/simonmacdonald
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Joe and I had a discussion about this as I was getting cordova-js
> >>shimmed
> >> into the Android implementation. The /sdcard location is not persistent
> >>on
> >> Android - you can take the SD card out at any time.
> >>
> >> We ended up using internal storage as the way to go -
> >> /data/data/<package>/ as the persistent storage (can't get wiped) and
> >> /data/data/<package>/cache as the temporary storage. The ../cache path
> >>can
> >> be cleared out by going into Settings -> Applications -> Your App ->
> >>Clear
> >> Data.
> >>
> >> In hindsight I really should have posted about this switch on the
> >>mailing
> >> list - my apologies for that.
> >>
> >> I guess it's as good a time as any to discuss the switch and where each
> >>of
> >> TEMPORARY and PERSISTENT locations should go to?
> >>
> >> On 12-02-22 9:40 AM, "Simon MacDonald" <simon.macdonald@gmail.com>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hey,
> >> >
> >> >I've been reading up on all the code changes as it seems like
> >>everything
> >> >is
> >> >different after four days without internet. One of the things that I
> >> >noticed is that the command:
> >> >
> >> >    window.requestFileSystem(LocalFileSystem.PERSISTENT, 0, onSuccess,
> >> >onError);
> >> >
> >> >Now returns the path "/data/data/{app package name}". In the previous
> >> >release it returned "/sdcard" or whatever the path of the mounted
> >external
> >> >storage is. So I was just wondering what the rational behind the change
> >> >was
> >> >and are we worried that everyone who's written an Android app
> >> >using window.requestFileSystem() will suddenly find their root path has
> >> >changed?
> >> >
> >> >Simon Mac Donald
> >> >http://hi.im/simonmacdonald
> >>
>
>

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