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I'm currently investigating building an in game panel which interfaces with an in-proc wasm module and as part of this have a reasonable amount of local user data (potentially a few KB) to read on the HTML/JS side.
Is it possible to read files saved in the work folder from JavaScript to save me sending this in tiny chunks over L-Vars?
If it isn't possible right now, could this be supported in the future?
Hello Steve,
As you mentioned in your last comments, only files embedded in the package can be accessed through js at the moment.
I've added a task about giving access to the work directory in our backlog.
I suggest you create an idea about this feature so people can upvote it and we have a better idea of how to prioritize it.
Regards,
Sylvain
I haven't tried file access in javascript with the sim yet, so just a shot in the dark:
let rawFile = new XMLHttpRequest();
rawFile.open("GET", "\work\filename.txt", true);
rawFile.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (rawFile.readyState === 4) {
this.allText = rawFile.responseText;
}
}
You also need to call rawFile.send() after building the request, but unfortunately that results in the following error:
[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Unable to process resource request) (work\test.json, line 0)
For what it's worth, the code snippet you provided is essentially what Utils.loadFile does internally. I tried a few different variants of the path with no success:
/work/test.json (404) ./work/test.json (404) coui://work/test.json (Cross origin request error) work://test.json (Cross origin request error)
necro alert, apologies - "this method works perfectly fine for files that are embedded in the package" - is that correct?
In my JS I'm trying to READ files in the SimObject directory of my package and as far as I can tell Coherent is treating the "html_UI" package directory as the root of the http access, so there's no access in JS outside of that directory (I've tried "/../SimObjects/...." but no success).
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