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Giannis Tzagarakis
Giannis Tzagarakis

Reputation: 530

Filesystem operations through Thunderbird Extension

I would like to do some operation on my filesystem through a Thunderbird plugin. For example create a folder at a specific location and a text file, containing some data from thunderbird, in this folder.

As you know, Mozilla Extensions consist of javascript code. So I looked for this, found some code about ActiveXObject, which is not working for Thunderbird.

Any ideas what should I do about it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 847

Answers (2)

user3542429
user3542429

Reputation: 1

Here is a code snippet from my extension. I create text file in Profile directory and then I add some text into this file.

var path = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].getService( Components.interfaces.nsIProperties).get("ProfD", Components.interfaces.nsIFile).path + "\\";    
var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile); 

file.initWithPath(path);
file.append("settings.txt")
file.create(Components.interfaces.nsIFile.NORMAL_FILE_TYPE, 0664)


var outputStream = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/file-output-stream;1"].createInstance( Components.interfaces.nsIFileOutputStream );
outputStream.init( file, 0x04 | 0x10, 0664, 0 ); 
var output = "some text here"
var result = outputStream.write( output, output.length );
outputStream.close();

Upvotes: 0

nmaier
nmaier

Reputation: 33192

First, read up on extensions in general (Firefox docs apply to Thunderbird as well, except for the Add-on SDK, which does not really work with Thunderbird; go the XUL overlay route).

Then there are multiple ways to perform File I/O, in particular XPCOM stuff and OS.File:

Upvotes: 1

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