Accessing the contents of a Skydrive text file using JavaScript

Question

Hello there

I am trying to obtain the contents of a text file from SkyDrive using JavaScript and the following code:

  WL.api({
        path: sPath + "/content"
    },
    function (response) {
        if (response.error) {
            HandleErrorResponse(response.error);
            fnFollow(null);
        }
        else {
            fnFollow(response.location);
        }
    });
    }

This is following the advice at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/hh561740.

Where sPath is the id of the folder (e.g. "file.41eee51f586e62bc.41EEE51F586E62BC!263").
In my callback function, response.location (the only property of response), is set to:

"https://storage.live.com/s1pIw8hIxdVhzhSVCuj6tNxImN8wjeUnNZvDxGnbJ-BcTErSUEYcJh0B0w5mG_36PR609ycqzxTK6SI3u7Z-N_lPRFaMy2_2ZQDE9G4uwgtT3Z1Wrm4xU0EDC8i6Ix53u3Y_FGUW88r8cE/2012%2001%2019.txt:Binary/2012 01 19.txt"

How do I translate this value into the actual contents of the file?

Many thanks

Geoff Olding

 

Answer 1

Hi Geoff,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/hh561740#downloading_files

Has a section on how to do this in Metro style apps with the file picker.  Did you try that code?

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 2

Hi Jeff

Thanks for your quick reply.  The code you reference is downloading a Skydrive file to a local file, based on a file location selected by the user.  This is not what I want to do - I want to be able to get the contents of the Skydrive file (as a string), without having to save the file locally (which is a waste of time).

I guess I could try to adapt the example code (downloading to a local file without user intervention), however I would need to work out how I create an appropriate "file" object.

Many thanks

Geoff Olding

Answer 3

I got you.  That really is not a Metro style app question.  You should ask the Live SDK forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/messengerconnect/threads

I am sure someone has wanted to so this in JavaScript before.  Also I have not watch this yet but you may get some hints from this Build Talk: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/PLAT-134C

-Jeff

 

 

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 4

Hi Geoff,

I was able to do this using WinJS.xhr.  I do not know enough about the SkyDrive API to help you there.

I simply used the .source property of the SkyDrive element:

  WinJS.xhr({ url: file.source }).
            then(onTextFile);

  function onTextFile(result) {

        var a = result.resposeText;

    }

 The result object is the response object.

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 5

Hello there

 

You are a star! 

 

N.B. The SjyDrive API documentation in this respect is very unclear.

 

Regards

 

Geoff Olding