[jira] [Commented] (CB-9506) A user's photos can be deleted if they leave a cordova application using cordova-plugin-camera

["Cody Balos (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Cody Balos commented on CB-9506:
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This will be non-trivial to fix as the usage of intents to start the camera, which will be a third party application, makes it hard, if not impossible (with the current way android works) to detect if the user took photos outside a cordova application. 

> A user's photos can be deleted if they leave a cordova application using cordova-plugin-camera
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>
>                 Key: CB-9506
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-9506
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Plugin Camera
>         Environment: Android
>            Reporter: Cody Balos
>
> Currently, the camera plugin checks the number of pictures saved to the device before any pictures are captured using the camera started via the plugin, and then checks the difference between the amount of photos before and after. Relying on this method introduces the possibility of deleting photos a user takes outside the cordova started camera. For example, consider this scenario:
> A user of a cordova application utilizes a cordova-plugin-camera backed camera feature , and while in the camera activity, switches to a different application. While in this different application the user takes a photo. Now the user returns to the cordova application, and is still in the camera activity. They take the photo, and accept it. Now the cleanup process inside cordova-plugin-camera begins, but, because of relying on the difference between the amount of photos before and after the activity, the photo the user took outside of the cordova application is deleted.
> This issue exists already in the checkForDuplicateImage function, does have the ill behavior from the above example. However, it is limited by its implementation to removing no more than 2 of the photos taken outside of the cordova application.



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