[TIMOB-19223] iOS: Ti.Filesystem.File is undefined

In iOS

Ti.API.info("Ti.Filesystem.File is " + Ti.Filesystem.File);

returns undefined, so you can not do something like

 if ( url instanceof Ti.Filesystem.File )

It works in Android.

Hans Knöchel 2015-09-09

[~angelf] Can you provide a more specific demo code?
Ángel Flores 2015-09-09

Before downloading a file (e.g an image), I check if it is cached or not. In order to reuse code, this function is called even when 'url' is a file path in which case I return the file. When the file is not cached, I return a file object where the image must be downloaded (using the name in the url). exports.isInCache = function (url) { if(url instanceof Ti.Filesystem.File)//This is what I really use --> if(url.indexOf("file:///")==0) { url=url.replace(/%20/g, " "); return Ti.Filesystem.getFile(url); } var filename = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf("/")+ 1, url.length); finalName= userFolder + filename; var basePath = Titanium.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory; f = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(basePath, finalName); if(!f && !f.exists()) { var t; //code to check if the file is in the external storage and create 'userFolder' if it is needed. } return f; }
Hans Knöchel 2015-09-11

As documented, you should call Ti.FileSystem.getFile(), can you try that? The Ti.Filesystem.File is not supposed to work without being associated to an url. Thank you!
Hans Knöchel 2016-11-02

As said last year, the Ti.Filesystem.File is an abstract type and should therefore not return a specific value without the file-context of Ti.Filesystem.getFile("<directory>", "<file>")
Lee Morris 2017-03-21

Closing ticket as invalid.