[File] Unexpected behavior on writeFile `append` and `replace`. (add docs) about awesome-cordova-plugins HOT 2 CLOSED

I found the following:

Original source of the plugin:

create - file or directory if it doesn't exist
exclusive - used with create; if true the command will fail if target path exists

Following the code of this repo further to writeFileEntry. This means. You don't need replace here, just append. The option replace will just throw an error if the file already exist. But please correct me if I'm wrong. In my case:

log(message, replace = false) {
  this.file.writeFile(path, fileName, message, { append: !replace, replace: true } );
}

But this does not work as expected. There is no option combination to log append or not to a file regardless if existing or not. You either get an error if the file already exists or get an error if the file does not already exists. It's a mess! With append true and replace true I get an error, when the file does not exist. Yes, because create = !append. But this forces me to know, if the file already exists or not. It's really not good implemented. The following does also not work.

const fileExists = await this.file.checkFile(path, fileName);
await this.file.writeFile(path, fileName, message, { append: fileExists });

I mean in background is create = !append. Means if fileExists == true, then create = false. And replace (exclusive behind) has no effect, when create == false. It should just open the file and log. If fileExists == false, then create = true, but fails on it and throws error file not exists NOT_FOUND_ERR. Regardless of replace. Any idea?

Update: checkFile does not work. It rejects instead of resolve boolean. Ref. #4689 So there are really some lacks in types, docs and code.

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