Intent to Prototype: Add FileSystemHandle::move() and FileSystemHandle::rename() methods

[Austin Sullivan]

Contact emails

asu...@chromium.org, m...@chromium.org

Specification

https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/pull/317

Summary

Currently, the File System Access API does not support an efficient way to move or rename files or directories. This requires creating a new file/directory, copying over data (recursively, in the case of a directory), and removing the original. This process is slow, error prone (e.g. disk full), and can require re-uploading files in some cases.

Blink component

Blink>Storage>FileSystem

TAG review

Not yet requested

TAG review status

Not applicable

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: Strongly positive (https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/issues/65)

Security

Writes to the Origin Private File System skip Chrome's Safe Browsing checks. Moving these files out of the OPFS to a directory on the user's system is a use case we want to support, so we will perform safe-browsing checks on these moves.

Goals for experimentation

Ongoing technical constraints

Debuggability

N/A

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?

No

The File System Access API is not exposed on Android

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

Yes

Flag name

FileSystemAccessAPIExperimental

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5640802622504960

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