Accessing local files while using livereload development server

[brospars]

Hello,

I'm running Capacitor 2.4.6 on iOS/android and I'm trying to read some local files (stored in the FilesystemDirectory.Data directory). Everything works fine on android but I'm unable to read files from local filesystem on iOS when using livereload.

If I use the convertFileSrc(filepath) and the angular http client I get a CORS errors but if I use Filesystem.readFile() it says the file does not exists and indeed its looking for files in the indexedDb and not on the physical device.

It's pretty annoying in development mode.

Any idea how I could work around that limitation ?

[brospars]

Ok sorry for the auto-answer but I just found out why after looking for hours...
In my service I imported the Filesystem the wrong way using import { Filesystem } from '@capacitor/core';

The correct way of importing (as of Capcitor 2.*) is

import { Plugins } from '@capacitor/core';
const { Filesystem } = Plugins;

The thing is you don't get any error and it's working fine on android and without livereload so it's hard to spot