Cordova Camera Plugin Select Video Returns null FILE URI

Hello,

Recently in one of my project we have a requirement to select video from Gallery and import it to Cordova application.

For that I used following code.

        navigator.camera.getPicture(this.onVideoSuccess, function(){
            console.log('Error in Video Processing);
        }, {
            destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
            sourceType: navigator.camera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY,
            mediaType:Camera.MediaType.VIDEO,
            limit: 1
        });

As you can see in above code we are selecting media type to video. Following is our callback function.

    onVideoSuccess: function(videoURI){
        console.log(videoURI);
    }

Now the problem was it was always returns null URI for any video I select. So I decided to dig into plugin code and found issue in CameraLauncher.java. Following is the function.

private void processResultFromGallery(int destType, Intent intent) {

 Uri uri = intent.getData();

        if (uri == null) {

            if (croppedUri != null) {

                uri = croppedUri;

            } else {

                this.failPicture("null data from photo library");

                return;

            }

        }

        .........

        .........

Here we have issue in following line.

        String fileLocation = FileHelper.getRealPath(uri, this.cordova);

This always returns null, however we were getting URI. So I added following code. 

if (this.mediaType != PICTURE) {

         if (fileLocation == null) {

         Cursor cursor = null;

          try { 

            String[] proj = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };

            cursor = this.webView.getContext().getContentResolver().query(uri,  proj, null, null, null);

            int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);

            cursor.moveToFirst();

            fileLocation = cursor.getString(column_index);

          } finally {

            if (cursor != null) {

              cursor.close();

            }

          }

         }

            this.callbackContext.success(fileLocation);

        }

and it worked.  Now it returned correct URI.

Hope this helps you.