Baseline 2023
Newly available
Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
Note: This feature is only available in Dedicated Web Workers.
The flush()
method of the FileSystemSyncAccessHandle
interface persists any changes made to the file associated with the handle via the write()
method to disk.
Bear in mind that you only need to call this method if you need the changes committed to disk at a specific time, otherwise you can leave the underlying operating system to handle this when it sees fit, which should be OK in most cases.
Note: In earlier versions of the spec, close()
, flush()
, getSize()
, and truncate()
were wrongly specified as asynchronous methods, and older versions of some browsers implement them in this way. However, all current browsers that support these methods implement them as synchronous methods.
None.
Return valueNone (undefined
).
InvalidStateError
DOMException
Thrown if the associated access handle is already closed.
The following asynchronous event handler function is contained inside a Web Worker. On receiving a message from the main thread it:
ArrayBuffer
to contain it.onmessage = async (e) => {
// Retrieve message sent to work from main script
const message = e.data;
// Get handle to draft file
const root = await navigator.storage.getDirectory();
const draftHandle = await root.getFileHandle("draft.txt", { create: true });
// Get sync access handle
const accessHandle = await draftHandle.createSyncAccessHandle();
// Get size of the file.
const fileSize = accessHandle.getSize();
// Read file content to a buffer.
const buffer = new DataView(new ArrayBuffer(fileSize));
const readBuffer = accessHandle.read(buffer, { at: 0 });
// Write the message to the end of the file.
const encoder = new TextEncoder();
const encodedMessage = encoder.encode(message);
const writeBuffer = accessHandle.write(encodedMessage, { at: readBuffer });
// Persist changes to disk.
accessHandle.flush();
// Always close FileSystemSyncAccessHandle if done.
accessHandle.close();
};
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3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
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