bug: Filesystem.downloadFile downloads file to my ~/Downloads folder

[muuvmuuv]

Bug Report

Is this intended?

Capacitor Version

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Platform(s)

Current Behavior

This downloads the file to my local computers downloads folder instead of the path I have given.

    const options: DownloadFileOptions = {
      url,
      headers: this.defaultHeaders,
      directory: Directory.Data,
      path: `${path}/${filename}`,
      progress: true,
    }

    try {
      const response = await Filesystem.downloadFile(options)
.....

Expected Behavior

Code Reproduction

https://github.com/muuvmuuv/Issues-Ionic-Angular

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I am uploading it rn

Other Technical Details

npm --version output:

node --version output:

pod --version output (iOS issues only):

Additional Context

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[muuvmuuv]

@jcesarmobile repl is added and work

[jcesarmobile]

So you mean on web platform?

On web the code is doing the default browser download file mechanism instead of saving the file to the Filesystem plugin, so I'm marking it as a bug as I agree with you, it should not download the actual file but the file data to the Filesystem plugin in the desired directory, or at least provide an option to do that as some user might prefer the actual file to be downloaded.

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[muuvmuuv]

Yes, on web. OK, I thought so too. At least the docs should be updated. RN we do just a fetch(), but would love to have less code and one API for that.