[jira] [Commented] (CB-6152) MediaFile Not Compatible with new File Plugin

["Ian Clelland (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Ian Clelland commented on CB-6152:
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MediaFile objects are actually subclassed from File objects, not FileEntry objects. As such, they would probably never have a {{.toURL}} (or {{.toNativeURL}}) method. It's a Cordova-specific API quirk that they even have a {{fullPath}} attribute like FileEntry objects do.

They should, though, have a {{localURL}} attribute, which could be used in its place, as File objects do now (though this is not yet part of any documented interface).

It would be a fairly big backwards-incompatible change to remove the {{fullPath}} attribute, or to change it to something that couldn't be used as a {{<video>>}} src attribute. I'm inclined to not touch {{fullPath}}, but to add {{localURL}}, which would be a {{file:///}} or {{cdvfile://}} URL (whichever is more appropriate) that could be saved and passed later to {{window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL}}.

> MediaFile Not Compatible with new File Plugin
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CB-6152
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6152
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Plugin File, Plugin File Transfer, Plugin Media Capture
>            Reporter: Matthew Keable
>            Assignee: Ian Clelland
>
> The latest release of the File and File Transfer plugins (1.0.0 & 0.4.1 respectively) now use the cdvfile:// protocol to reference files.
> The Media Capture plugin (0.2.7) does not offer the new toURL() method for the returned MediaFile objects.



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