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[brunofariasd]

Hello. I am trying to use this library to convert uri to path but it just returns error.

example:

getPath(content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/primary%3AAndroid%2Fmedia)

this return:

Error: Exception in HostFunction: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Unsupported Uri content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/primary%3AAndroid%2Fmedia

RN: 0.66
Latest version lib instaled

[demchenkoalex]

Hey, sorry for the late response!

Did the update to RN 0.67 just now and tested this,

getPath(content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/document%3A44)

returns

/data/user/0/com.example/cache/temp8143442312317355734dummy.pdf

From the error message I see that URI is not supported, maybe some files do not work that way?

Also, from the original issue thread, there were a couple suggestions after my comment, like this one react-native-documents/document-picker#70 (comment), maybe this library is not needed at all.

[demchenkoalex]

react-native-documents/document-picker#70 (comment) also mentioned in the README of the document picker repo as well, is the correct way to retrieve the path. This repo will be archived.