selected.getImage is not a function

I’m making an app where some data are stored in a SQL database. But in order to store images and videos I need to get the file uri first. I tried everything I could but nothing worked.

This is how my JS file looks like:

var imagepicker = require("nativescript-imagepicker");
var permissions = require( "nativescript-permissions" );
var ImageSourceModule = require("image-source");

function openImage() { 
   var context = imagepicker.create({ mode: "single" }); // use "multiple" for multiple selection
        context
    .authorize()
    .then(function() {
        return context.present();
    })
    .then(function(selection) {
        selection.forEach(function(selected) {
            selected.getImage().then((source) => {
                    console.log(selected.fileUri); 
                });     
        });  
    }).catch(function (e) {
        alert(e);// process error
    });
}


exports.openImage = openImage;

I can select images without a problem but then I get this error “selected.getImage is not a function”.

[lini]

I tested this using the latest (6.0.1) version of the image picker plugin. For Android, getting the image path is very easy. Assuming selection is the array of image assets returned from the image picker:

selection.forEach(function(selected) {
     console.log(selected.android.toString()); 
});

For iOS, it is a bit more tricky as the native PHAsset object does not have a property containing the path:

selection.forEach(function(selected) {
    const ios = selected.ios;
    if (ios && ios.mediaType === PHAssetMediaType.Image) {
        const opt = PHImageRequestOptions.new();
        opt.version = PHImageRequestOptionsVersion.Current;
        PHImageManager.defaultManager().requestImageDataForAssetOptionsResultHandler(
            ios, opt, (imageData: NSData, dataUTI: string, orientation: UIImageOrientation, info: NSDictionary<any, any>) => {
                console.log(info.objectForKey("PHImageFileURLKey").toString());
            });
    }
});

[lini]

You need to add the tns-platform-declarations dependency to your app. It contains the definitions for all native objects like NSData and UIImageOrientation.