With Android 13 Existing Camera and File Plugin Routines No Longer Function

[JMrJImmy]

I have an existing routine that worked fine in earlier versions that takes a picture, renames it and moves it to a sub-directory("Photos") that I successfully created in the sandboxed dataDirectory ("files") folder of my Application. It's no longer functioning. I cannot get the returned fileURI from the camera plugin to format correctly for the subsequent file operations.

The photo plugin returns "fileURI " = file:///data/user/0/com.nsbasic.Vantastic/cache/1697768037972.jpg
(inside the cache folder of the apps sandbox). Simply passing the above file URI to the getfile() method returns a not found error. How can i convert the above "fileURI" to something that the getfile() can find? I have tried:

• window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(fileURI)
• window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(cordova.file.cacheDirectory) + "1697768037972.jpg"
• toURL(fileURI)

Any ideas?? Here is my latest attempt that fails to find the photo:

//---Begin Photo Stuff
Mimage.onclick = function() {
    options = {
        quality: 75,
        correctOrientation: true,
        allowEdit: false,
        destinationType: 1
    };
    navigator.camera.getPicture(onPictureReturned, onPictureError, options);
};

function onPictureReturned(fileURI) {
    varLastSlash = InStrR(fileURI, "/", 0);
    varfileURI = fileURI;
    console.log(varfileURI);
    PhotoName = Mid(fileURI, varLastSlash); //The Photo name
    varPicture = Trim(gSelectedBroker) + "-" + Trim(gSelectedCategoryNumber) + "-" +             Trim(gSelectedChainNumber) + "-" + Trim(gSelectedStoreNumber) + "-" + CStr(Year(varDate)) +     PhotoMonth + PhotoDay + "-" + Trim(varQuestionNO);
varPicture = varPicture + ".jpg";
    MovePicS();
}

function onPictureError(message) {
    NSB.MsgBox("Failed because " + message);
}

function MovePicS() {
    gfileSystem.root.getFile(varfileURI, {
        create: false
    }, gotFileEntryS, fail2st);
}

function gotFileEntryS(fe) {
    FileEntry = fe;
    FileEntry.moveTo(gdataDir, varPicture, SubSuccess2, fail3st);
}

function SubSuccess2(entry) {
    //MsgBox "Successfully Moved file from Cache:" & vbCRLF & PhotoName & vbCRLF & "To Photos: " & varPicture
    NSB.MsgBox("Press [SAVE ANSWER] to Complete Process...", 0, "Photo Successfull");
}

function fail2st(error) {
    console.log(error);NSB.MsgBox("Error getFile(PhotoName: " + error.code + " -" + error.error + "-" + PhotoName);
    NSB.MsgBox("Error getFile(PhotoName: " + error.code + " -" + error.error + "-" + PhotoName);
}

function fail3st(error) {
    NSB.MsgBox("Error .moveTo(gdataDir: " + error.code + " -- " + error.error + "-" + varPicture);
}
//---End Photo Stuff

CHEERS!
jimmy

[breautek]

function gotFileEntryS(fe) {
FileEntry = fe;
FileEntry.moveTo(gdataDir, varPicture, SubSuccess2, fail3st);
}

It's likely unrelated but FileEntry is an actual class created by Cordova that you might be overwriting, you shouldn't reassign the window.FileEntry object.

The equivalent would be

function gotFileEntryS(fe) {
    fe.moveTo(gdataDir, varPicture, SubSuccess2, fail3st);
}

I don't think your code will cause problems on the first time run, but it will likely cause problems on the second image capture, or any file "get" operation thereafter.

window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(fileURI) should work on the returned file.

Can you include more details about your environment including camera and file plugin versions, and your cordova-android version?

[JMrJImmy]

Using the latest Plugins from NPM:




The app worked fine for years.
I am using the internal storage. The photo is in the applications cache. Just want to know what to do to a fileURI that is returned from your photo plugin, in order to get a file entry object getfile(fileURI... (no longer excepts this and Evrything else I tried.. ... I GET FILE NOT FOUND . How do I format the returned fileURI to get it in the appropriate format for getfile() operation??

[JMrJImmy]

plugin name="cordova-plugin-camera" source="npm"'
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-file" source="npm"

preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="30"

preference name="android-targetSdkVersion" value="33"