Download a file with Tidesdk

Question

How can I download a file and store it locally? I've searched the doc and google and couldn't find an example of it.

I tried this:

this.copyRemote = function(path,path2){
    reader = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient();
    writer = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(path2);

    reader.open('GET',path);
    reader.receive(writer);
}

But Tidesdk crashes while trying to download the file, the last messages on console are:

[12:42:39:647] [Ti.Network.HTTPClient] [Debug] Changing readyState from 0 to 1 for url:https://buttonpublish.com/api/images/7/image257189x142.jpg
[12:42:39:671] [Ti.Proxy] [Debug] Looking up proxy information for: https://buttonpublish.com/api/images/7/image257189x142.jpg
[12:

Can you please try using XMLHTTPRequest for doing the http part. — Mital Vora, Jan 31 '13 at 13:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '13 at 04:22

Seems like there has been success on the TideSDK Google Group using the code below:

var httpClient = Ti.Network.createHTTPClient();
httpClient.open('GET', path);
httpClient.receive(function(data) {
  var file = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(path2);
  var fileStream = file.open(Ti.Filesystem.MODE_APPEND);
  fileStream.write(data);
  fileStream.close();
});

Hope that helps, at least to point in the right direction.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 03 '13 at 15:01

I found that this works for my needs, which are just to get the file onto the machine:

function downloadFile( url ){
    Ti.Platform.openApplication( url );
}

This opens the URL using the machine's default browser. One downside to this approach is that the user is normally prompted to confirm the download. I use the downloadFile function in case I want to change how this works in the future.

Download a file with Tidesdk

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