File constructor parameters order are wrong on android?

[HarelM]

I have the following code:

let blobToSave = this.nonAngularObjectsFactory.b64ToBlob(responseData, "application/octet-stream");
let file = new File([blobToSave], route.name + ".gpx");
console.log(file);

Which basically gets a base64 string from the server, converts it to blob and creates a file from it.
Here is the output of the console in the browsers:

And here is the output of the console when running on an android simulator:

Am I doing something wrong?
Looks like the name is the first parameter (the blob)...?

[rpanadero]

Same issue here. Is there a workaround to avoid this ?

Thanks in advance

[HarelM]

I have migrated to use blobs in most part of my code and just use File when I know I'm running a code on a device and not in the browser. But it's a hack...

[rpanadero]

Ok, I will try to do the same, thank you @HarelM . In my case I think that it is a little bit more complicated as I'm using other third party libraries which could be affected for this issue. For example, this library, https://github.com/digitalascetic/ngx-pica, internally generates compressed files which are built wrongly due to this issue (I guess) and I think that it is complicate to deal with this unexpected behavior.

[HarelM]

@rpanadero I agree this is a problem and it should be fixed, IMHO, this is why I reported it.
I tried to use ngx-pica but it had horrible performance so I ended up writing some code to compress images on my own (taken from SO), so I didn't need it, most libraries I use do not use files so I was in luck...
Relevant code can be found here:
https://github.com/IsraelHikingMap/Site/blob/master/IsraelHiking.Web/sources/application/services/image-resize.service.ts it uses File but this is because File derives from Blob.

[breautek]

File is not what you think it is. Due to some old decisions... it's actually a cordova object, not browser File API.

This issue is tracked at #316 so I'll be closing this issue.