Hi,

I want to read a local file. I go crazy on how to use LocalIO::userDataPath(...) and LocalIO::getUrl(...).

My metadata.desktop already contains the extension tag (as described in http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/JavaScript/API-Extensions):

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"X-Plasma-RequiredExtensions=LocalIO"


In my js file I tried following:

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print("Home: " + userDataPath("home"));


Resulting this error: Reference Error: Can't find variable userDataPath

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print("Home: " + plasmoid.userDataPath("home"));


Resulting this error: Type Error: Result of expression 'plasmoid.userDataPath' [undefined] is not a function.

At KDE-Examples I didn't find a code snippet. Also didn't find any usefull links with google 'plasmoid localio'.

Could somebody explain me the usage of userDataPath and getUrl, please?

Thx!
André

I would recommend asking about this on the Plasma development mailing list, plasma-devel@kde.org.

Thx for reply. I solved it by myself.
The method userDataPath is only available at script version > 4 which I don't have. The getUrl method works!
Here is my example code:

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var fileContent = null;

function onData(job, data){
   if(data.length > 0){
      var content = new String(data.valueOf());
      fileContent += content;
   }
}

function onMimetype(job, mimeType){
   print(mimeType);
}

function onFinished(job) {
   startWorkWithFileContent(fileContent);
}

function startWorkWithFileContent(fileContent){
   print(fileContent);
}

function onConnect(job){
}

var job = plasmoid.getUrl("/some/directory/file.name");
// or var job = plasmoid.getUrl("http://a_nice_url.de/file.name");
job.data.connect( onData );
job.mimetype.connect( onMimetype );
job.finished.connect( onFinished );
job.connected.connect( onConnect );


This is a small example which show the usage of LocalIO and the connections with the signal of IOJob. At getUrl you can link to any file in your local filesystem or to a file at the web. This script writes out the contents of the file at /some/directory/file.name.


Greets
André