add option to return original path instead of a cached copy about flutter_file_dialog HOT 4 CLOSED

The returned path is a content provider path (not a file system path). What do you need the path for? For reading the file or displaying the path?

The function could be improved to return the full content provider URI and not only the path. So instead of returning
/document/primary:Download/image.jpg

it could return
content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/primary:Download/image.jpg

For more information about content providers see:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/content-provider-basics

See also:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5657411/android-getting-a-file-uri-from-a-content-uri

But I am not sure how is it possible to utilize the returned content provider URI in Flutter/Dart unless you have some related plugin which accepts content provider URIs.

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The returned path is a content provider path (not a file system path).
What do you need the path for? For reading the file or displaying the path?

We only need the path (the actual path to the existing file in the filesystem, not a new copy/cache) so we can tell the backgound service (Retroshare) to add the file to it's shared files. Retroshare will then read the file when it needs to. The rationale behind this is that the user must be able to share existing files without taking up additional space by copying them.

Is this possible?

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This is now available in 2.1.0, see OpenFileDialogParams.copyFileToCacheDir

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Hi,

This return the filepath in android uri scheme, example:

content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image%3A2355

Is there a way to get absolute file path? thanks

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