react-native-saf-x

A module to help simplify usage of scoped storages on android.

intended to use when targeting Android API level 30+

Installation

npm install react-native-saf-x

or

yarn add react-native-saf-x

Usage

After receiving a content uri using openDocumentTree function, you can use this as if like it's a normal path like we are used to. This is the intended behaviour, if you find any problems or if something does not behave as intended, please create an issue.

Note that each method can reject when there's an unexpected error or when the permission is revoked.

Example:

import { openDocumentTree, mkdir } from "react-native-saf-x";

// somewhere in the app .....

async function testIt() {
  const doc = await openDocumentTree(true);
  if (doc && doc.uri) {
    // user has selected a directory and uri is available
    // you can save this uri as base directory in your app and reuse it anywhere you want
    await mkdir(doc.uri + '/foo/bar'); // creates foo/bar folder and subfolder at selected directory
  }
}

For more examples look at example folder in the source.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Type aliases
• Functions
• Caveats
• Thanks to
• Contributing
• License

Type aliases

• CreateDocumentOptions
• DocumentFileDetail
• Encoding
• FileOperationOptions

Functions

• copyFile
• createDocument
• createFile
• exists
• getPersistedUriPermissions
• hasPermission
• listFiles
• mkdir
• moveFile
• openDocument
• openDocumentTree
• readFile
• releasePersistableUriPermission
• rename
• stat
• unlink
• writeFile

Type aliases

CreateDocumentOptions

Ƭ CreateDocumentOptions: FileOperationOptions & { initialName?: string }

Defined in

index.tsx:80

DocumentFileDetail

Ƭ DocumentFileDetail: Object

Type declaration

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | lastModified | number | | mime? | string | | name | string | | size? | number | | type | "directory" | "file" | | uri | string |

Defined in

index.tsx:60

Encoding

Ƭ Encoding: "utf8" | "base64" | "ascii"

Defined in

index.tsx:22

FileOperationOptions

Ƭ FileOperationOptions: Object

Type declaration

| Name | Type | Description | | :------ | :------ | :------ | | append? | boolean | Append data to the file. If not set file content will be overwritten. | | encoding? | Encoding | Defaults to 'utf8' | | mimeType? | string | mime type of the file being saved. Defaults to '*/*' |

Defined in

index.tsx:69

Functions

copyFile

▸ copyFile(srcUri, destUri, options?): Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Copy file from source uri to destination uri. promise Rejects if destination already exists and replaceIfDestinationExists option is not set to true. Does not support moving directories.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | srcUri | string | | destUri | string | | options? | FileTransferOptions |

Returns

Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Defined in

index.tsx:214

createDocument

▸ createDocument(data, options?): Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Open the Document Picker to save a file. Returns an object of type DocumentFileDetail or null if user did not select a file.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | data | string | | options? | CreateDocumentOptions |

Returns

Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Defined in

index.tsx:105

createFile

▸ createFile(uriString, options?): Promise<DocumentFileDetail>

Creates an empty file at given uri. Rejects if a file or directory exist at given uri.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string | | options? | Pick<FileOperationOptions, "mimeType"> |

Returns

Promise<DocumentFileDetail>

Defined in

index.tsx:150

exists

▸ exists(uriString): Promise<boolean>

Check if there's a document located at the given uri.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string |

Returns

Promise<boolean>

Defined in

index.tsx:117

getPersistedUriPermissions

▸ getPersistedUriPermissions(): Promise<string[]>

Returns a list of all the persisted uri permissions.

Returns

Promise<string[]>

Defined in

index.tsx:186

hasPermission

▸ hasPermission(uriString): Promise<boolean>

Check if you have permission to access the uri.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string |

Returns

Promise<boolean>

Defined in

index.tsx:112

listFiles

▸ listFiles(uriString): Promise<DocumentFileDetail[]>

List all files and folders in a directory uri.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string |

Returns

Promise<DocumentFileDetail[]>

Defined in

index.tsx:196

mkdir

▸ mkdir(uriString): Promise<DocumentFileDetail>

Create a directory at given uri. Automatically creates folders in path if needed. You can use it to create nested directories easily. Rejects if it fails.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string |

Returns

Promise<DocumentFileDetail>

Defined in

index.tsx:172

moveFile

▸ moveFile(srcUri, destUri, options?): Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Move file from source uri to destination uri. promise Rejects if destination already exists and replaceIfDestinationExists option is not set to true. Does not support moving directories.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | srcUri | string | | destUri | string | | options? | FileTransferOptions |

Returns

Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Defined in

index.tsx:229

openDocument

▸ openDocument(persist): Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Open the Document Picker to select a file. Returns an object of type DocumentFileDetail or null if user did not select a file.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | persist | boolean |

Returns

Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Defined in

index.tsx:97

openDocumentTree

▸ openDocumentTree(persist): Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Open the Document Picker to select a folder. Read/Write Permission will be granted to the selected folder. Returns an object of type DocumentFileDetail or null if user did not select a folder.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | persist | boolean |

Returns

Promise<null | DocumentFileDetail>

Defined in

index.tsx:89

readFile

▸ readFile(uriString, options?): Promise<string>

Read contents of the given uri. uri must point to a file.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string | | options? | Pick<FileOperationOptions, "encoding"> |

Returns

Promise<string>

Defined in

index.tsx:122

releasePersistableUriPermission

▸ releasePersistableUriPermission(uriString): Promise<void>

Remove a uri from persisted uri permissions list.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string |

Returns

Promise<void>

Defined in

index.tsx:191

rename

▸ rename(uriString, newName): Promise<boolean>

Renames the document at given uri. uri can be file or folder. Resolves with true if successful and false otherwise.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string | | newName | string |

Returns

Promise<boolean>

Defined in

index.tsx:181

stat

▸ stat(uriString): Promise<DocumentFileDetail>

Get details for a file/directory at given uri.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string |

Returns

Promise<DocumentFileDetail>

Defined in

index.tsx:201

unlink

▸ unlink(uriString): Promise<boolean>

Removes the file or directory at given uri. Resolves with true if delete is successful, false otherwise.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string |

Returns

Promise<boolean>

Defined in

index.tsx:162

writeFile

▸ writeFile(uriString, data, options?): Promise<string>

Writes the given data to the file at given uri. Tries to create the file if does not already exist before writing to it. Resolves with given uriString if successful.

Parameters

| Name | Type | | :------ | :------ | | uriString | string | | data | string | | options? | FileOperationOptions |

Returns

Promise<string>

Defined in

index.tsx:136

Caveats

Due to simplyifing the uri structure usage, file and directories should not have the same name at a given uri. doing so can cause unexpected results. for example in a folder named "foo", do not create "bar" file and "bar" directory making the uri being "foo/bar" for both cases.

Thanks to

• ammarahm-ed for his work on react-native-scoped-storage which helped me jump start this module.

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT