PhoneGap errorCode 1 on FileTransfer upload.

FileTransferError.code = 1

This seems to be a common error (at least for all the questions about it in the Internet). I hope this short post will save some time to others.

When you follow the documentation for the FileTransfer plug-in you end up with code that looks like this.

    var ft =  new FileTransfer();
    ft.upload(fileEntry.fullPath, encodeURI("http://example.com/uploads"), onSuccess, onError, getFileUploadOptions(fileEntry.fullPath));

If you do this you will get an error with code 1.

The solution can actually be found in the documentation of the file plug-in. They introduced a new method to the FileEntry object to help with this problem.

The new revised code looks like this.

    var ft =  new FileTransfer();
    ft.upload(fileEntry.toURL(), encodeURI("http://example.com/uploads"), onSuccess, onError, getFileUploadOptions(fileEntry.fullPath));

You will notice that for the first argument to the upload method we now use the toURL() method of the FileEntry, everything else stays the same.