[CB-3409] FileReader.readAsText(string) is deprecated and Broken. Needs to be removed.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Component/s: cordova-android
• Labels: patch
• Assignee: Andrew Grieve
• Reporter: Flavio Spezi
• Created: 16/May/13 08:21
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:35
• Resolved: 04/Jun/13 22:14

Description

This is an example code:

function readMyFile() {
    var filename = "testFile.txt";
    var objFile = new FileReader();
    objFile.onloadend = function(e) {
        console.log("Result: " + JSON.stringify(e));
    }
   objFile.readAsText(filename);

}

Collback function returns error:

e.target.error.code = "JSON error"