If you want to move this to comments on the blog entry, that would be cool.
Can you explain a bit more? I'm not seeing which step .... Oh... so resolveLocalFileSystemURL will call the second argument on success and the third on failure. Yeah - that's significant enough for me to rewrite the sample and blog post. ________________________________________ From: agri...@google.com <agri...@google.com> on behalf of Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 8:20 PM To: dev Subject: Re: Questions about FileSystem documentation and paths Thanks for putting together this blog post Ray! Assume this is addressed in https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/pull/59? (Which is an awesome change! Thanks Kerri!) As a nit: you can simplify your code a bit by skipping the .getFile() call: resolveLocalFileSystemURL(cordova.file.dataDirectory + fileName, appStart, downloadAsset) On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Ray Camden <rayca...@adobe.com> wrote: > Hey folks - I originally raised this on the Google Group as I assumed it > was just an issue w/ my code, but I believe this is a documentation issue > so I'm raising it here. If wrong, let me know. :) > > I'm working on a set of of demos related to the FileSystem feature to > answer a series of FAQs risen on my blog. For my first sample app, I wanted > to build something simple: > > Check for a file on the device. > If not there, fetch it. > > Looking at the docs for the FileSystem important dirs, I assumed that > cordova.file.applicationStorageDirectory made the most sense. The docs say > it is: "Root of app's private writable storage." > > Note the words private and writable. In my mind that was: "I can write to > it and it is private, no other app can use it." > > But in my testing when I tried to FileTransfer crap down to it, I always > got this error: "Could not create target file" > > Not really sure what to do, I eventually tried cordova.file.dataDirectory. > According to the docs for it, it is: "Where to put app-specific data > files." Since it didn't say Private, my understanding was: "Ok, I can put > crap here too, but it is public, so other apps can see it." > > Switching to this made my app work immediately. (Haven't tested Android > yet.) > > So my question is - did I simply misunderstand the documentation for > applicationStorageDirectory? If so, if someone can help explain what I did > wrong, I'll happily write it up in a PR to improve the doc. > > If I didn't misunderstand it and there is a bug, I'll file a report. > > If you want to see the entire app (again, it is incredibly simple), you > can see it here: > https://github.com/cfjedimaster/Cordova-Examples/tree/master/checkanddownload/www
