[jira] [Updated] (CB-3384) Resource Loading API for Android

["Shravan Narayan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-3384?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Shravan Narayan updated CB-3384:
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    Description: 
Motivations:
1. Many plugins do not handle URLs correctly when they are in the form content: or file:///android_asset. 
2. For the cordova-app-harness, there needs to be a way to re-route resource load requests so that the harness can load app resources while still respecting the <content> tag.


Short Description
All plugins can watch the loading of any uri's Eg: opening of files, the browser making requests to load files etc etc.
In addition to watching they may assist in loading the uri's.
For example, a use case here is - suppose a mimetype for a hypothetical extension ".abc" doesn't exist, a plugin could check the extension of a loaded uri and set the mimetype. This would now be set for all files loaded in the system.

Pseudo code of the mechanism:
1. make a request 'R' to a uri.
2. loop through all plugins to see if any plugins change the request
3. if the request changes, set 'R' to this modified request and repeat step 3
4. load request 'R' and return result


  was:
Motivations:
1. Many plugins do not handle URLs correctly when they are in the form content: or file:///android_asset. 
2. For the cordova-app-harness, there needs to be a way to re-route resource load requests so that the harness can load app resources while still respecting the <content> tag.

    
> Resource Loading API for Android
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CB-3384
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-3384
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Android
>            Reporter: Andrew Grieve
>            Assignee: Shravan Narayan
>
> Motivations:
> 1. Many plugins do not handle URLs correctly when they are in the form content: or file:///android_asset. 
> 2. For the cordova-app-harness, there needs to be a way to re-route resource load requests so that the harness can load app resources while still respecting the <content> tag.
> Short Description
> All plugins can watch the loading of any uri's Eg: opening of files, the browser making requests to load files etc etc.
> In addition to watching they may assist in loading the uri's.
> For example, a use case here is - suppose a mimetype for a hypothetical extension ".abc" doesn't exist, a plugin could check the extension of a loaded uri and set the mimetype. This would now be set for all files loaded in the system.
> Pseudo code of the mechanism:
> 1. make a request 'R' to a uri.
> 2. loop through all plugins to see if any plugins change the request
> 3. if the request changes, set 'R' to this modified request and repeat step 3
> 4. load request 'R' and return result

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