Writing to text file not working in Firefox

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I am trying to create a text file, and write some text to it within my Firefox extension in this way:

JavaScript

try{netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalXPConnect");}
catch (e) {alert("Permission to write file denied."); return 0;}

var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"]
           .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
file.initWithPath("C:\\BrightCloud_Main\test.txt");
file.create(0x00, 0644);
		
var sFileContent = "This test number 1";
outputStream = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/network/file-outputstream;1']
               .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileOutputStream);
outputStream.init(file,0x04|0x08|0x20,420,0);
outputStream.write(sFileContent, sFileContent.length);
outputStream.flush();
outputStream.close();

It always fires an exception, displays the message and exits. Any ideas on how to change user privileges to allow to create and edit files?!

Thanks in advance!

Posted 4-Mar-13 0:29am

Daroosh

Updated 4-Mar-13 0:44am

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-04T01:34:00

Solution 1

Lots of answers from Google[^].

Posted 4-Mar-13 1:34am

Richard MacCutchan

Daroosh · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-06T01:23:00

This is the right way to do it:

JavaScript

var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"]
           .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
file.initWithPath("C:\\test.txt");		

// WRITE
var text = "Text to be written";
var outputStream = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/file-output-stream;1"]
                   .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileOutputStream);
outputStream.init(file, 0x04 | 0x08 | 0x10, 00002, 0);
outputStream.write(text, text.length);
	
// READ
var inputStream = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/file-input-stream;1"]
                  .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileInputStream);
var sstream = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"]
                  .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableInputStream);
inputStream.init(file, 0x04, 00004, 0);
sstream.init(inputStream);
var output = sstream.read(sstream.available());

alert(output);

For a list of all the possible file flags and file permissions that can be used when initializing the Input/Output stream, visit JOSHUA's Article.

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