Method to rename entry

[saschanaz]

What problem are you trying to solve?

(Moving from WICG/file-system-access#64 as we moved only the PR and not the original issue. The PR is #10 and #180 now.)

Currently, if you want to rename an entry (file or directory), you need to copy it then delete the original. Not too hard for a single file, but if you want to rename a directory, it means recursively duplicating the directory, then deleting the original one.

What solutions exist today?

No response

How would you solve it?

Add move() to handle objects

Anything else?

No response

[annevk]

@jasnell expressed willingness during the in-person WHATNOT in Spain to drive this (and other File System issues) forward.

[saschanaz]

For extra context, we found a footgun caused by move()'s signature: #180 (comment), whatwg/webidl#1604. We would like to solve it either in webidl or change the signature.

And maybe discuss about the current implementation status and how to proceed with the PR.

[saschanaz]

We discussed this today (mainly in direction of whatwg/webidl#1604), but couldn't discuss much about the implementation status given the lack of storage folks in the meeting.

That said, I found that https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40198034 got a patch to enable it by default on OPFS three days ago.

Edit: Filed https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319597.