fix(filesystem): Allow content:// paths to be used in Filesystem.copy() #1301
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This is my attempt to fix ionic-team/capacitor#6114
Submitting a
content://
path toFilesystem.copy
such as one provided by @capawesome/capacitor-file-picker plugin would previously result in the application crashing despite the Capacitor filesystem docs stating the following:This merge requests adds some additional handling when copying from a
content://
path:The following example will now work correctly from application code:
The main reason for doing this is to avoid memory issues when the user picks large files. Native file copying can be used instead of reading the file as base64 over the bridge and writing back to a new path manually.