File component could not error

hammerhai · June 7, 2021, 5:20pm

The File component will ask for the READ and WRITE permissions which aren’t needed for the external directories. If you don’t want to ask for the READ and WRITE permissions, you can relook over my previous response referencing the extension I recommended!

bodymindpower · June 7, 2021, 5:26pm

I know that, but that’s not the subject of our considerations here, only the question of whether it is possible to save to the ASD with the File component. And it does.

So you were wrong in your claim:

bodymindpower · June 7, 2021, 5:29pm

It is well known that the READ/WRITE permission problem can be avoided with the EFile extension. But this was not the question.

hammerhai · June 7, 2021, 5:32pm

I already provided an extension that can be used.

Back then I would’ve been correct, but I do remember at one point being unable to save files to certain paths.

kentleow1496 · June 7, 2021, 5:38pm

I love you, my application can save files normally

bodymindpower · June 7, 2021, 5:39pm

I am really not a fan of the File component for these reasons:

The really disturbing thing is the constant alternation between relative and absolute path.
Copying from the assets does not work
Permissions are also requested for the ASD (but this applies to many components, but I’m sure this will be fixed when Kodular targets Android 11, Aug 2021).

bodymindpower · June 7, 2021, 5:53pm

Here are all blocks, where you can see that for the SaveFile method a relative path is needed, but for the Copy method you must set an absolute path.

Blocks

I hope that this (and the other points) will be adjusted / fixed with the next Kodular update.
→ @Kodular

pavi2410 · June 8, 2021, 6:53am

Still-learning · June 8, 2021, 2:25pm

#off-topic

What is the meaning of it? Really i don’t know about it

bodymindpower · June 8, 2021, 3:38pm

One from the Kodular team took care of the matter.
Thank you @pavi2410 !

pavi2410 · June 10, 2021, 12:24pm

Fixed that! Thank you very much @bodymindpower for reporting this bug

bodymindpower · June 10, 2021, 2:34pm

Great! Is there a way to test it?
Maybe on the Beta server, but unfortunately the build server doesn’t seem to be working there at the moment.

pavi2410 · June 10, 2021, 4:16pm

I will push the changes to beta over the weekend

pavi2410 · June 16, 2021, 5:17am

Beta server has been updated

Changelog:

Fixed File Copy function doesn’t accept asset path
Fixed File Copy function doesn’t accept relative file names
Fixed File Exists function doesn’t work for assets

@bodymindpower

pavi2410 · June 16, 2021, 5:17am

bodymindpower · June 16, 2021, 5:51am

Sorry, but the Beta server still does not work, neither with Companion nor can the APK be built.

pavi2410 · June 16, 2021, 5:52am

That is something @Diego needs to fix

bodymindpower · June 16, 2021, 6:02am

What about the 3rd point:

I suspect this will stay that way for now and will be changed after Kodular targets Android 11. Am I right?

pavi2410 · June 16, 2021, 6:05am

The beta server targets Android 11 currently. The permissions are asked for the component. We need to implement conditional permissions from App Inventor in order to control the unnecessary permissions. Also, currently, the runtime permissions are requested for the whole function, i.e, the function arguments such as file names are not checked before requesting permissions. This needs to be fixed.

bodymindpower · June 16, 2021, 6:10am

I know, of course I didn’t mean the Beta server.

So to avoid permissions in the meantime, we can use the EFile extension from @vknow360 .