AppArg on Simulator

[P5music]

My CodenamOne app can respond to the user selecting a file with a certain extension (that is registered in the info.plist file on the iOS side).

I would like to test this functionality in the Simulator in a way as similar to how the iOS native build would work as possible.

I am using a Linux machine. I think at least I could pass the file url as a command line parameter.

How to achieve that?

[Shai Almog]

See the "Send App Argument" entry in the simulator menu. This should act similarly to Android though.

[P5music]

What do you mean? I am using the cross-platform instructions.

Maybe you mean adding the prefix file:/// ?

I am interested in iOS url format, how to simulate that?

The AppArg is correctly passed and retrieved in the onStart() method.

I passed a path to a file (on Linux) like /home/pc/folder/myFile.ext

but 

try(InputStream is = Storage.getInstance().createInputStream(url);) 
fails.

[Shai Almog]

That's not a path for the simulator. Simulator URLs look like file://home/filepath but they point to ~/.cn1/...

iOS files have random file path names I'm not sure what you're asking for?

[P5music]

The only way to test the onStart() method with AppArg for me was to put a file in the ~/.cn1/ folder and the pass just the file name with "Send AppArg".

So it simulates the method call itself. I can test the app at least. As I can understand the real iOS url opening can only be tested on a real device.

So can I say that

Storage.getInstance().createInputStream(url);

on the simulator is a special API?

I mean, it accepts internal "private" files, not urls from the system, for example when the user wants to open a file with the registered extension as per the info.plist entry, as it is in my case.

[Shai Almog]

You need to use FileSystemStorage not Storage and then it will accept correctly formed URLs starting with file://home/... prefix.