cordova.file in Intel XDK Crosswalk builds

Question

I was downloading files using Cordova File, Cordova FileTransfer and Cordova Device API and checked all of those inside windows XDK app but cordova.file is undefined inside cordova crosswalk builds, I use same version and same code in Cordova windows build (using cmd) and it works.

Intel XDK ver 1621

org.apache.cordova.file: 1.3.2

my html at end of body:

<script src="./cordova.js"></script>
<script src="./intelxdk.js"></script>
<script>
function onDeviceReady() {
   console.log(cordova.file);
   alert(cordova.file);
}
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
</script> 

Is there other solution to get cordova.file.dataDirectory?

or I can just wait for another release to manage that?

Answer 1

Just for reference:

org.apache.cordova.file version used in XDK(1621) is 1.1.0 and it doesn't have cordova.file so I changed File plugin version in XDK to 1.3.2 and no result since using Emulator or Debugger (using XDK Crosswalk app)

I'm sure that File plugin is included using this method:

JSON.stringify(cordova.require('cordova/plugin_list').metadata, null, 1)

but Emulator and Debugger keep using version 1.1.0

Then I build it from BUILD page in XDK and it works and shows using version 1.3.2. Problem Solved.

I'm sorry that I didn't try that before posting, but in my defence building every time, download it, then install it on device takes so much time, like 20 mins for each test and it's not very logical.

Update plugins for Emulator

When I find out that XDK using default version of plugins in emulator, I decided to update plugins manually in XDK Folder in Windows:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Intel\XDK\xdk\components\server\cordova-plugins

I just removed org.apache.cordova.file folder and got new clone from https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file to make my tests in Emulator with updated version.

Use updated plugins in Intel App Preview (it may cause issues with other tabs)

Just update plugins in this folder in Windows:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Intel\XDK\xdk\brackets\b\extensions\default\StaticServer\node\node_modules\cp\res\middleware\cordova\intel-app-preview\android\plugins

and Debugger works well with updated plugins.

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Make it easy for update

Clone from git like this in each folder:

In folder org.apache.cordova.file

git init && git remote add origin https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file.git && git pull

now you have all versions in git.

For updating all plugins you can just run this bash command in plugin root directory: (in Windows use Git Bash)

for i in $(find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -type d); do echo $i && cd $i && git pull; done