- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:06:08 -0700
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Eric U <ericu@google.com>, olli@pettay.fi, public-webapps@w3.org
On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > > For what it's worth, I put together a draft for what an API would look > like that has basically the same feature set as the current FileSystem > API, but based on DeviceStorage. It's a much smaller API that the > current FileSystem drafts, but supports things like shallow as well as > deep directory iteration. > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/DeviceStorageAPI2 > > I think that if we at mozilla were to implement a sandboxed > filesystem, it'd be something more like this. I took a crack at a pruned and cleaned up version: https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/MinimalFileStorage Only 4 interfaces (excluding the Navigator addition), 16 methods, 9 attributes. And two of the interfaces are generic and reusable in other contexts. It removes cruft but adds features relative to the Mozilla version: - Atomic create/open operation - Renaming files and directories - A Directory interface for less weirdness in directory handling - Ability to open files in append mode (this makes more sense than an append() operation on the handle, given the way underlying filesystems work) Features omitted include: - Multiple named filesystems (just use directories) - Separate enumeration for writing (just use open) - Ability to fetch matadata (does not appear to be needed for the use case) It could be simplified a little bit, but really not that much, by removing hierarchy. Regards, Maciej
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