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"Failed to open file" when opening from search results in iOS app
Describe the bug When searching for a text file in the iOS app, and then trying to open the text file, I receive a "Failed to open file" error message. It does work when I navigate to the file in the folder view and open it from there.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Open the Nextcloud iOS app
- Search for a text file
- Open it
Expected behavior The file should be opened from the search result, just like when navigating to it.
Screenshots Here are 2 screenshots from my phone. Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Note the strange filename in the 2nd screenshot, not sure if this is normal.
Server details:
- Nextcloud version: 31.0.4
- PHP Version: 8.3.20
- Database: PostgreSQL 16.8
Nextcloud is running in a docker container (image nextcloud:apache) behind an nginx reverse proxy.
Client details:
- OS: iOS
- Browser: Nextcloud App
- Browser version: 6.6.4
- Device: iPhone 14 Pro
Logs
Nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log)
Here is the log entry of the error. What I find suspicious is that the complete url is appended to the path query param. Is that normal?
{
"reqId": "phpCCsp3U7gHy7dHEwrU",
"level": 3,
"time": "2025-06-19T20:31:23+02:00",
"remoteAddr": "10.129.255.6",
"user": "christian",
"app": "files",
"method": "POST",
"url": "/ocs/v2.php/apps/files/api/v1/directEditing/open?path=/https://nextcloud.mydomain.com/remote.php/dav/files/Christian/Kochen/Sushireis.txt&editorId=text",
"message": "Exception when opening a file through direct editing",
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iOS) Nextcloud-iOS/6.6.4 AppleWebKit/605.1.15 Mobile/15E148",
"version": "31.0.4.1",
"exception": {
"Exception": "OCP\\Files\\NotFoundException",
"Message": "/christian/files/https:/nextcloud.mydomain.com/remote.php/dav/files/Christian/Kochen/Sushireis.txt",
"Code": 0,
"Trace": [
{
"file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/Files/Node/LazyFolder.php",
"line": 138,
"function": "get",
"class": "OC\\Files\\Node\\Root",
"type": "->",
"args": [
"/christian/files/https:/nextcloud.mydomain.com/remote.php/dav/files/Christian/Kochen/Sushireis.txt"
]
},
{
"file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/DirectEditing/Manager.php",
"line": 123,
"function": "get",
"class": "OC\\Files\\Node\\LazyFolder",
"type": "->",
"args": [
"/https://nextcloud.mydomain.com/remote.php/dav/files/Christian/Kochen/Sushireis.txt"
]
},
{
"file": "/var/www/html/apps/files/lib/Controller/DirectEditingController.php",
"line": 106,
"function": "open",
"class": "OC\\DirectEditing\\Manager",
"type": "->",
"args": [
"/https://nextcloud.mydomain.com/remote.php/dav/files/Christian/Kochen/Sushireis.txt",
"text",
null
]
},
{
"file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php",
"line": 200,
"function": "open",
"class": "OCA\\Files\\Controller\\DirectEditingController",
"type": "->",
"args": [
"/https://nextcloud.mydomain.com/remote.php/dav/files/Christian/Kochen/Sushireis.txt",
"text",
null
]
},
{
"file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Http/Dispatcher.php",
"line": 114,
"function": "executeController",
"class": "OC\\AppFramework\\Http\\Dispatcher",
"type": "->",
"args": [
{
"__class__": "OCA\\Files\\Controller\\DirectEditingController"
},
"open"
]
},
{
"file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/App.php",
"line": 161,
"function": "dispatch",
"class": "OC\\AppFramework\\Http\\Dispatcher",
"type": "->",
"args": [
{
"__class__": "OCA\\Files\\Controller\\DirectEditingController"
},
"open"
]
},
{
"file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/Route/Router.php",
"line": 307,
"function": "main",
"class": "OC\\AppFramework\\App",
"type": "::",
"args": [
"OCA\\Files\\Controller\\DirectEditingController",
"open",
{
"__class__": "OC\\AppFramework\\DependencyInjection\\DIContainer"
},
{
"_route": "ocs.files.directediting.open"
}
]
},
{
"file": "/var/www/html/ocs/v1.php",
"line": 49,
"function": "match",
"class": "OC\\Route\\Router",
"type": "->",
"args": [
"/ocsapp/apps/files/api/v1/directEditing/open"
]
},
{
"file": "/var/www/html/ocs/v2.php",
"line": 7,
"args": [
"/var/www/html/ocs/v1.php"
],
"function": "require_once"
}
],
"File": "/var/www/html/lib/private/Files/Node/Root.php",
"Line": 182,
"message": "Exception when opening a file through direct editing",
"exception": {},
"CustomMessage": "Exception when opening a file through direct editing"
}
}
Something interesting I found out: When I log in with "christian" (first letter lower case), the problem disappears. When I log in again with "Christian" (first letter upper case), the problem reappears.
The NotFoundException seems expected given the weird path coming in via the router. And given that the Text app doesn't have a search provider, I don't think it's the Text app itself causing this.
I suspect the issue is either in the iOS client itself or in Server search provider.
Server side I don't see any obvious recent potentially related changes, but there are quite a few in the relevant areas of code in the iOS client.
https://github.com/nextcloud/NextcloudKit/blob/f8df227dad809562214b478e46074cdd7c273f2e/Sources/NextcloudKit/NextcloudKit%2BNCText.swift#L112
Unfortunately I don't have an iOS device to test on.
The uid upper/lower case difference you mentioned in the follow-up is interesting. That's almost certainly a good clue here. That doesn't seem like it's being handled right...
EDIT: Do you have any similar behave when testing the same scenarios via the Web UI in a standard browser? (I.e. not using the iOS client nor direct edit mode)?
