[GitHub] cordova-plugin-file pull request: Windows prefix paths

[ghenry22 <gi...@git.apache.org>]

Github user ghenry22 commented on the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/pull/121#issuecomment-150114300
  
    Have tried this on a windows 10 universal app and had some issues.
    
    cordova.file values seem to return a absolute path eg:
    
    cordova.file.dataDirectory returns c:\... etc when I would expect it to return ms-appdata:///local/ which is the accessible path for the app to reach persistent storage.
    
    with the absolute path returned functions like checkDir, checkFile always fail.
    
    window.resolvelocalfilesystemurl(cordova.file.dataDirectory) always throws a error code 5 encoding error when using this PR.
    
    If I remove this PR code and go back to master and manually specify the value of cordova.file.dataDirectory to the ms-appdata url above then resolvelocalfilesystemurl works as expected as do other core file plugin functions like checkdir, checkfile etc.
    
    so I have reverted back to using the current release of the file plugin with the following code added to my app.js:
    
        //Init file systems for Windows
        if (cordova.platformId === "windows"){
          console.log("platform is windows");
          cordova.file = {
            dataDirectory: "ms-appdata:///local/",
            cacheDirectory: "ms-appdata:///temp/",
            tempDirectory: "ms-appdata:///temp/",
            applicationDirectory: "ms-appdata:///"
          };
        };
    
    This resolve the immediate problem and the app works now when I build for the windows platform and test on windows 10, but perhaps you could adjust this PR to take this into account so that the cordova.file.* constants work as expected for the file systems that are available on windows without requiring a workaround.


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