access content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image%3A99

[EyalSi]

I'm getting a content:// uri in android while using react-native-document-picker or react-native-contacts (for the avatars).
URIs like:
'content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image%3A99'
Trying to access this file fails with "stat error: failed to list path null for it is not exist or it is not a folder'"

const urlDecoded = decodeURIComponent(url);
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
RNFetchBlob.fs.stat(urlDecoded)
.then(resolve)
.catch(reject);
});

Any idea how to access the file?
10x

[tombailey]

You should take a look at my PR (#546) although I haven't touch the FS part of this library.

The current implementation in this library for content URIs on Android seems to try to find the file path for a given content URIs. If the file is a virtual file or in a place your app doesn't have access to, this is problematic.

[EyalSi]

There is now a solution for this problem in react-native-fs. Enabling access and copy content:// files -itinance/react-native-fs#395

[anarchytech]

Good