actionViewIntent error "Failed to find configured root that contains.."

Versions: react-native-cli: 2.0.1 react-native: 0.55.1 rn-fetch-blob: 0.10.13,

Hey! I’m having some problems trying to use the RNFetchBlob.android.actionViewIntent function. When I call it, it throws me this error:

Error: Failed to find configured root that contains /data/data/com.irpfvisaoapp/files/declaration-files/6becc170-b03a-11e8-a70e-876c3834b6e5_2013_DEC.pdf
    at createErrorFromErrorData (NativeModules.js:121)
    at NativeModules.js:78
    at MessageQueue.__invokeCallback (MessageQueue.js:398)
    at MessageQueue.js:137
    at MessageQueue.__guardSafe (MessageQueue.js:314)
    at MessageQueue.invokeCallbackAndReturnFlushedQueue (MessageQueue.js:136)
    at debuggerWorker.js: 

I’m invoking it like this: await RNFetchBlob.android.actionViewIntent(path, "application/pdf")

I’m checking if the file exists before running it using RNFetchBlob.fs.exists(path) and it returns true as the file really exists. I’ve also tried to put file:// in the beginning of the path, but it didn’t work either.

const exists = await RNFetchBlob.fs.exists(path)
console.log(path, exists) // "/data/user/0/com.irpfvisaoapp/files/declaration-files/6becc170-b03a-11e8-a70e-876c3834b6e5_2013_DEC.pdf" true

I’ve noticed that the “data” is duplicated in the path inside the error message, but if I try to remove it from the path, the error still occurs.

Any suggestions?

[demarchisd]

So, after some research I’ve found that it’s required to create a provider for it to work.

In the case of rn-fetch-blob, it looks for a provider named provider_paths instead of file_paths.

So, what I did was to create a xml file android/app/src/main/res/xml/provider_paths.xml with the following content:

<paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">              
   <root-path name="root" path="." />                                            
</paths>     

Hope this can help people that may have the same problem. C/C @antofa

[antofa]

I have this problem too.