Roku Developer Program

[mahusa7]

I am copying a file to temp from package, and want to write to it. However, the permissions of the file turn out read only. Is there a way to change the permissions?

print fileSystem.Stat("tmp:/Untitled.m3u8") gives:

<Component: roAssociativeArray> =
{
    ctime: <Component: roDateTime>
    hidden: false
    mtime: <Component: roDateTime>
    permissions: "r"
    size: 858
    type: "file"
}

Any suggestions or workarounds would be appreciated.
        

[tim_beynart]

did you try setting the permissions on the file to 777 before you deploy the app?

[mahusa7]

I did. It seems that any file read from package becomes read only. I found a workaround for this by downloading the file to tmp from a server.

[RokuNB]

Said m3u8 is a small text file, right?
ReadAsciiFile()/WriteAsciiFile()

[mahusa7]

WriteAsciiFile does not work as the file is read only when read from pkg.

[RokuNB]

"mahusa7" wrote:
WriteAsciiFile does not work as the file is read only when read from pkg.

And if you try this?

text_content = ReadAsciiFile("pkg:/my.m3u8")
' massage text_content to your heart`s content here
' ... 
WriteAsciiFile("tmp:/my.m3u8", text_content)

[destruk]

That should work RokuNB, as it's writing it to tmp 🙂

[mahusa7]

That does work. Thank you. 🙂