FileSystemFileEntry - Web APIs
obsolete methods createwriter() creates a new filewriter object which allows writing to the file represented by the file system entry.
... basic concepts to write content to file, create a filewriter object by calling createwriter().
...the text data is written to the file by creating a blob, appending text to it, and passing the blob to filewriter.write().
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FileSystemFileEntry.createWriter() - Web APIs
the filesystemfileentry interface's method createwriter() returns a filewriter object which can be used to write data into the file represented by the directory entry.
... syntax filesystemfileentry.createwriter(successcallback[, errorcallback]); parameters successcallback a callback function which is called when the filewriter has been created successfully; the filewriter is passed into the callback as the only parameter.
... errorcallback optional if provided, this must be a method which is caled when an error occurs while trying to create the filewriter.
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FileEntrySync - Web APIs
basic concepts to write content to file, create a filewriter object by calling createwriter().
... method overview filewritersync createwriter () raises (fileexception); file file () raises (fileexception); methods createwriter() creates a new filewriter associated with the file that the fileentry represents.
... returns filewritersync exceptions this method can raise a fileexception with the following codes: exception description not_found_err the file does not exist.

FileHandle API - Web APIs
file.append('some content'); writing.onsuccess = function () { console.log('writing operation successful'); var saving = myfile.flush(); saving.onsuccess = function () { console.log('the file has been successfully stored'); } } writing.onerror = function () { console.log('something goes wrong in the writing process: ' + this.error); } api compatibility why a different api than filewriter?
... the filewriter specification defines filewriters, objects aiming at representing editable files.

File and Directory Entries API support in Firefox - Web APIs
in particular, the filesystemfileentry.createwriter() method, used to create a filewriter to handle writing to a file, is not implemented and will just treturn an error.

Index - Web APIs
1384 filesystemfileentry.createwriter() api, file system api, file and directory entries api, filesystemfileentry, files, method, non-standard, obsolete, reference, createwriter the filesystemfileentry interface's method createwriter() returns a filewriter object which can be used to write data into the file represented by the directory entry.