Phonegap - Retrieve photo from Camera Roll via path

Question

In my PhoneGap/jQuery Mobile app, I\'m currently using PhoneGaps\' Camera API to allow the user to take a photo, which is also stored in the Camera Roll. I\'m setting Destin

Answer 1

Sharing my version which uses promises and resolveLocalFileSystemURL except resolveLocalFileSystemURI because second one is deprecated. It also uses original file name in new created one.

function copyPhotoToAppDir(imageURI) {
  if(!imageURI){
    console.warn("You need to pass imageURI");
    return;
  }

  var fileNameSplit = imageURI.split("/"),
    fileName = fileNameSplit[fileNameSplit.length - 1],
    deferred = $q.defer();

  var copyPhoto = function(fileEntry) {
    window.requestFileSystem(LocalFileSystem.PERSISTENT, 0, function(fileSys) {
      fileSys.root.getDirectory("photos", {create: true, exclusive: false}, function(dir) {
        fileEntry.copyTo(dir, fileName, onCopySuccess, onFileFail);
      }, onFileFail);
    }, onFileFail);
  };

  var onCopySuccess = function onCopySuccess(entry) {
    console.log("NEW PATH", entry.fullPath);
    deferred.resolve(entry.fullPath);
  };

  var onFileFail = function (error) {
    console.log("COPY FAIL", error);
    deferred.reject();
  };

  window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(imageURI, copyPhoto, onFileFail);

  return deferred.promise;
}

Usage:

var uri = "path1";
copyPhotoToAppDir(uri).then(function(newURI){
  console.log(newURI);
});

Multiple URIs usage:

var uriArr = ["path1", "path2"]; 
  copyPhotoPromises = [];

uriArr.forEach(function(val){
  copyPhotoPromises.push(copyPhotoToAppDir(val));
});
$q.all(copyPhotoPromises).then(function(values){
  console.log("Array with new paths", values);
});

New file URIs will be saved as "/photos/fileName.jpg". To get the absolute path, you can use:

cordova.file.documentsDirectory + newFileUri.substring(1);

I'm using $q from angular here to handle promises but it can be easily changed to jQuery one.

deferred = $q.defer();

would need to be changed to:

deferred = jQuery.Deferred();

Cheers