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From: Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 16:43:26 -0400
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Subject: Re: CB-285 (FileSystem paths)
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There are two types of config for file:
1. You can do is disable parts of the filesystem (doubt anyone would do
this)
2. You can switch where PERSISTENT filesystem maps to (sane place vs legacy
place)

What's missing is a way to retrieve the paths that you might want. No
configuration required for this part.

I'd like to avoid making the calls look like they are a part of the file
spec, so that users won't be tempted to think that it would work in a
non-Cordova environment.


On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io> wrote:

> This plugin is helpful though I can't help but wonder if we can't shoehorn
> into specs (or at least provide spec feedback).
>
> Right now all config is done w/ config.xml instead of programmatic (?)
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Closer than ever to resolving this (woo!)
> >
> > The file plugin is now able to read & write to roots on the filesystem
> > beyond PERSISTENT and TEMPORARY on iOS, Android, and BlackBerry (and
> maybe
> > others?)
> >
> > However, you still can't query for the location of these places (doh!)
> >
> > There's a file-extras plugin in cordova-labs:
> >
> >
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-labs.git;a=blob;f=file-extras/fileextras.js;h=1f8f88f7222bd4022f2f802f6825c189b10445d9;hb=aaf61d4
> >
> > That was used to experiment with an API for this. I think the API is
> pretty
> > much fine, and I'd like to add it to the core file plugin rather than
> have
> > it as a separate plugin.
> >
> > This would add:
> > cordova.plugins.file.getDirectoryForPurpose(purpose, options, win, fail)
> >
> > Where purpose can be one of:
> > var Purpose = {
> >      'data': 0, // General application data (default)
> >      'documents': 1, // Files that are meaningful to other applciations
> > (e.g. Office files)
> >      'cache': 2, // Temporary files that should survive app restarts
> >      'temp': 3, // Files that can should be deleted on app restarts
> >      'app-bundle': 4 // The application bundle (iOS only)
> > }
> >
> > And also add convenience wrappers:
> > cordova.plugins.file.getDataDirectory(syncable, win)
> > cordova.plugins.file.getDocumentsDirectory(win)
> > cordova.plugins.file.getTempDirectory(win)
> > cordova.plugins.file.getCacheDirectory(win)
> >
> >
> > Any comments on this?
> >
>

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