Support file:// URIs

[achuinard]

It seems the plugin only supports cdvfile:// URIs. My typical flow is to download a file through the Cordova File Transfer plugin, then use that resulting FileEntry object to get the full path of the file. However, it returns something like:

file:///var/mobile/my/file/path/document.pdf

I have to hack up a cdvfile:// URL to pass in to the plugin.

[jbaartman]

Can you please elaborate on how you "hacked" up a cdvfile:// url to pass to the plugin? I have a file stored in an expansion file that I can't seem to get to work. Any clarification would be most helpful. Thank you,

[achuinard]

            HttpService.downloadFile($scope.document.pdf_url, filename).then(function (filepath) {
              window.plugins.PrintPDF.print({
                data: "cdvfile://localhost/documents/" + filename,
                type: 'File',
                title: 'Print Document',
                success: function () {

                },
                error: function (data) {
                  data = JSON.parse(data);
                  console.log('failed: ' + data.error);
                }
              });
            });

Here's my download code:

downloadFile: function (url, filename) {
      var deferred = $q.defer();
      var fileTransfer = new FileTransfer();
      var uri = encodeURI(url);

      fileTransfer.download(
        uri,
        cordova.file.documentsDirectory + filename,
        function (entry) {
          deferred.resolve(entry);
        },
        function (error) {
          deferred.reject(error);
        });
      return deferred.promise;
    }

Let me know if that helps!

[jbaartman]

Are you downloading from a remote server then? I am trying to understand how this would actually look for my example: downloadFile($scope.document.pdf_url, filename)

what is $scope? and do I use document.'http...etc URL", filename)?

Or can I somehow reference a pdf file that I have stored in my expansion file? so it would be document.'content:///...etc", filename'

Thank you for your help

[matthew-dean]

Related to this: some documentation on just want to set as the path in order to get access to the www/ files would be much appreciated. I've spent about 4 hours so far trying to get this plugin to say anything other than "File does not exist" (when it does).