Take a photo!

[yaronyg]

We need to take and store photos

[deadlyfingers]

How it might look -

[yaronyg]

That is cool! Although I was more excited when I thought you had already implemented it. Took me a second to realize it was a mock. :)

[deadlyfingers]

Cordova returns base64 encoded imageData which we can store as a PouchDB attachment - http://pouchdb.com/guides/attachments.html or as a Blob. Does anyone have a preference?

[yaronyg]

There is no Cordova API that will return a buffer? I suppose that makes sense as the Cordova bridge requires everything to be a string. Sigh.. oh well. From a "helping Thali" perspective it would be best if we stored it as an attachment. This would force us to finally exercise those APIs.

[deadlyfingers]

I have small images being saved as an attachment in PouchDB using base64. But having trouble with saving large images on PouchDB 413 (Request Entity Too Large)

• UPDATE: fix app.use( bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true, limit: '10mb' }) );

[deadlyfingers]

iframe issues: So I want to call Cordova commands from web app client on the mobile but I reckon I need to do some additional wiring to get working it with JXCore / Express app running inside an iframe... Tried to get 'parent' of iframe to get access to Cordova functions but this failed due to different origins 'file://' and 'localhost://'.

OPTIONS :

1. Cross Domain Messaging - post message event using parent.postMessage('data','*'); to trigger Cordova function in main window - "index.js" then post message back to iframe to trigger callback. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/postMessage
2. Or do we really need to run everything inside an iframe? Potentially we can drop ejs requirement.
   • UPDATE: tried removing iframe but ran into various problems - mostly broken file links so going with option 1 which works