I am building an Angular8 PWA and I was using the webshare to share text which works fine. Since May 2019, Chrome also supports sharing of files
However, trying to build the fileshare in Typescript I run into the following error:
NotAllowedError: Permission denied
let navigator: any;
navigator = window.navigator;
const title = "myTitle";
let data = {
title: title,
text: text,
url: url,
files: []
};
console.log(data);
if (navigator.share) {
fetch(url)
.then(res => res.blob())
.then(file => {
const fileName = data.text + ".mp3";
const options = { type: "audio/mp3" };
const newFile = new File([file], fileName, options);
data.files.push(newFile);
console.log(data);
//lastModified: 1564912016680
//lastModifiedDate: Sun Aug 04 2019 11:46:56 GMT+0200 (Mitteleuropäische //Sommerzeit) {}
//name: "myName.mp3"
//size: 40643
//type: "audio/mpeg"
//webkitRelativePath: ""
if (navigator.canShare(data)) {
navigator
.share(data)
.then(() => {})
.catch(err => {
console.error("Unsuccessful share " + err.message); //here is am getting the Permissions denied error
});
}
});
I am not sure if it is the way I am getting the file (which looks fine) or calling the canShare. I am using Chrome on my mobile phone. The following fiddle works fine with my phone, but you need to select a file. https://jsfiddle.net/ericwilligers/8cpuskqd/
My share function is on a button that basically holds the link of the file to share.
edit
If I change data.files from an array into an object, I get the following error message:
TypeError: Failed to execute 'canShare' on 'Navigator': Iterator getter is not callable.
edit2
I created a codepen to reproduce the issue:
This worked
webshare(url, text) {
let navigator: any;
navigator = window.navigator;
const title = "yourTitle";
let data = { files: [], text: text, url: url, title: title };
const options = { type: "audio/mp3" };
this.http
.get(url, {
responseType: "arraybuffer"
})
.subscribe(response => {
console.log(response);
let blob = new File([response], `${text}.mp3`, options);
data.files.push(blob);
console.log(data);
if (navigator.canShare(data)) {
navigator
.share(data)
.then(() => {})
.catch(err => {
console.error("Unsuccessful share " + err);
});
}
});
}