Native Development

[oliver_kranz]

We need access to restricted functionality on the device. The device permissions the application requires can be specified in the BAR application descriptor file.

Is there a way to check if permissions are denied or allowed by the user?

The API provides a class ApplicationPermissions.

#include <bb/platform/bbm/ApplicationPermissions>

But it can only be used to check BBM permissions.

[peter9477 · Accepted solution]

There's no direct, unified API for this (yet). For now, attempt to perform one of the restricted actions and catch any exceptions that are raised.

For example, if you try to do a directory listing on the shared/ subfolders and don't have access_shared granted by the user, you should get a permission violation.

[oliver_kranz]

Okay, thanks.

Hopefully, the API comes with the next release of the Native SDK. Unfortunately, the exceptions which will be thrown are not documented. So, there is no known exception to react on. For instance, if a network request fails because of missing permissions we want to show a popup. Showing this popup always when an exception is thrown can be wrong.

[peter9477]

At least so far, I've never seen a permission that prevents basic network access. In spite of the existence of access_internet and the docs, I don't think it's ever been required yet. Maybe it was added recently... i haven't tested in a couple of versions.