Cordova File URI

Can we pass either DATA_URL or FILE_URI from Cordova’s navigator.camera.getPicture to the first parameter of uploader.send?

Right now it seems that we need to pass the file object from an input with type="file"

[costinelmarin]

None of the example work for me. The code below works for me on METEOR@1.3-cordova-beta.2 hope will help someone i don’t try on iOS simulator just on actual device.

function videoCaptureSuccess(mediaFiles) {

  var file = '/local-filesystem' + mediaFiles[0].fullPath;

  getBlobURL(file, "video/quicktime", function(url, blob){
    uploader.send(blob, function (error, downloadUrl) {
      alert(downloadUrl);
    });
  });
}


function getBlobURL(url, mime, callback) {
  var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhr.open("get", url);
  xhr.responseType = "arraybuffer";

  xhr.addEventListener("load", function() {
    var arrayBufferView = new Uint8Array( this.response );
    var blob = new Blob( [ arrayBufferView ], { type: mime } );
    var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);

    callback(url, blob);
  });
  xhr.send();
}

[kevohagan]

For future reference this is what i did , i had to recreate the file object from media-capture plugin with resolveLocalFileSystem

      captureSuccess = (mediaFiles) ->

        path = mediaFiles[0].fullPath
        window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL path, (fileEntry)->

          fileEntry.file((data)->

            reader = new FileReader()

            reader.onloadend = (e)->
              console.log e.target.result
              blob = b64toBlobAlt(e.target.result, 'video/mp4')
              console.log blob

              if blob
                uploader = new Slingshot.Upload('myVideoUpload')
                uploader.send blob, (error, downloadUrl) ->
                  if error
                    console.error 'Error uploading', uploader.xhr.response
                  else
                    console.log downloadUrl
                    Meteor.users.update Meteor.userId(), $set: 'profile.videoUrl': downloadUrl
                  return

            reader.readAsDataURL(data)

          )

        return