Cordova video / audio won't play from cdvfile:// urls after update to 3.3.0

Question

My Cordova app downloads audio files from a server and makes them available to play when the device is offline. This was all working fine until yesterday when I upgraded to

Answer 1

I still don't have an answer for getting a fully qualified path, but I decided to hack the iOS plugin until there is a proper fix from Cordova. (At least I can continue on with dev for the moment.)

The following code was taken from the file-transfer plugin, and can be added to CDVSound.m to allow the media plugin to play audio files with the new cdvfile:// paths, iOS only. Be warned though, I have never written a line of ObjC before and the code has hardly been tested. It is a temp fix until Cordova patches the current plugin.

#import "CDVSound.h"
#import "CDVFile.h"    <-- add
#import 
...
#define RECORDING_WAV @"wav"
#define CDVFILE_PREFIX @"cdvfile://"  <-- add

extern CDVFile *filePlugin;   <-- add

@implementation CDVSound
...
    filePath = [resourcePath stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:DOCUMENTS_SCHEME_PREFIX withString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/", docsPath]];
    NSLog(@"Will use resource '%@' from the documents folder with path = %@", resourcePath, filePath); 
<--- insert this block here --->
} else if ([resourcePath hasPrefix:CDVFILE_PREFIX]) {
    CDVFilesystemURL *fsURL = [CDVFilesystemURL fileSystemURLWithString:resourcePath];
    if (fsURL && fsURL.fileSystemName != nil) {
        // This requires talking to the current CDVFile plugin
        NSObject *fs = [filePlugin filesystemForURL:fsURL];
        if ([fs respondsToSelector:@selector(filesystemPathForURL:)]) {
            filePath = [fs filesystemPathForURL:fsURL];
            NSLog(@"Will use resource '%@' from the documents folder with path = %@", resourcePath, filePath);
        }
        else {
            resourceURL = fsURL.url;
        }
    }
    else {
        NSLog(@"Unknown resource '%@'", resourcePath);
    }
<--- to here --->
} else {
    // attempt to find file path in www directory or LocalFileSystem.TEMPORARY directory