Files not opening on iOS

[scottdc]

Been trying to get this working for a bit now and am stumped. Files do not open but I also do not get an error or anything, nothing happens at all. I've got the event writing to the console and it appears to be firing correctly but I get neither a success or failure message. I've got this same basic case for multiple file types (pdf, doc, etc.) based on extension and none of them work.

case 'rtf':
cordova.plugins.fileOpener2.open(fullPath, 'application/rtf', {
error : function(errorObj) {
console.log('error - ' + errorObj.status + ' - ' + errorObj.message);
},
success : function () {
console.log('sucess');
}
});
break;

[pwlin]

• What iOS version and device are you using?
• Which app have you installed on your iOS device for reading rtf files?
• Is fullPath a valid path? Does the file really exists there?

[scottdc]

Sorry it took a while to get back to you on this. So I was in fact having a path issue and have that fixed but now whenever I attempt to open a file the app crashes.

I am testing on iOS7.1 iPhone 4.

Could still be a path issue, I have tried both of these for testing trying to open a PDF with Adobe Reader with the same result:

/Documents/test.pdf

and the full path from root:

/var/mobile/Applications/ . /Documents/noodles.pdf

but am getting a sigabrt at this line:
docController = [UIDocumentInteractionController interactionControllerWithURL:fileURL];

[zatch]

I seem to be having the same issue. I do get an "Open with..." dialog if my file path starts with "file://", but the file doesn't open after making a selection. My attempts to use paths without schemas/prefixes have all caused my app to crash like scottdc's.

I'm still learning how to navigate the iOS filesystem, so I could just be using the wrong path, but I figured I'd chime in with my experience so far... Any clues you find toward a solution would be much appreciated -- I'll be sure to post my own findings here, as well.

Update: I tested opening my file with the Mail app, just to see what would happen. All it did was create a new email with the name of my file in the subject line. The subject line was only the name, not the full path. It didn't even add the file as an attachment (which isn't the surprising, but I thought it worth mentioning).

[zatch]

I finally got this working! Some recent changes in Cordova require some extra steps to find the absolute system path for a file. For a File Entry, instead of using toURL() or fullpath, you have to use fileEntry.toNativeURL() to get the full system path. Then you can just use the full system path to open the file in whatever apps can open the file type. :)

[tomraithel]

Hey, I have a similar problem here. I´m using the example code but I don´t get any error or success - just nothing happens. This is my code:

cordova.plugins.fileOpener2.open(
    currentFileUrl, // e.g. '/var/mobile/Applications/XXXXXXXXX/Library/files/mypdf.pdf'
    'application/pdf',
    {
        error : function(errorObj) {
            alert('Error status: ' + errorObj.status + ' - Error message: ' + errorObj.message);
        },
        success : function () {
            alert('file opened successfully');
        }
    }
);

I also tried file urls with prefix (file://) from fileEntry.toNativeUrl() like @zatch explained, but nothing happens here.

@zatch can you give me an example with the code that worked for you?

Thanks
Tom

[tomraithel]

Uh, I found the problem. In my config.xml I used following preference:

<preference name="iosPersistentFileLocation" value="Library" />

It seems, that this does not work well with the plugin. After removing this line, it worked.

[pwlin]

@tomraithel Thank you very much, I added this tip as a note to the readme file.

[any2info]

Hey, I have this exact problem. I'm trying to open a pdf file that has been downloaded to my phone.

When execute the following i get a dialog to select the app that should be used:

            cordova.plugins.fileOpener2.open(
                uri,  //cdvfile://localhost/persistent/myPDF.pdf
                'application/pdf',
                {
                    error: function (e) {
                        console.log('Error status: ' + e.status + ' - Error message: ' + e.message);
                    },
                    success: function () {
                        console.log('file opened successfully');
                    }
                });

I've checked the following:
The succes callback is hit
My config.xml doesn't contain iosPersistentFileLocation preference setting

I'm working with apache cordova tools for VS2015 (CLI 5.1.1) and i'm trying to use ibooks to open the pdf.

I recently upgraded to vs2015 after which this problem arose, so i suspect this to be some kind of cordova configuration issue. Can someone help me with this?

Thanks
A2I

[pwlin]

Try to change plugin's ios source (FileOpener2.m) line:

fileURL = [NSURL URLWithString:path];

to:

fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];

Does that help?

[any2info]

I found the following lines in the FileOpener2.m file:
//fileURL = [NSURL URLWithString:path];
fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];

I tried enabling the first line (URLWithString) but this resulted in a crash of my app.

[pwlin]

What if you use fileEntry.toURL() in your javascript?

[any2info]

That solved it. Thank you very much.

[pwlin]

Ok great. I will add a note to README file about using fileEntry.toURL()

[ronycohen]

Hi,

Where to get the fileEntry.toURL() ?
I don't understand. Do you have an example with fileEntry.toURL() ?