tauri-apps/tauri

v2 requiring an instance of App, AppHandle or Window to get access to path functions like home_dir()

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#10,478 opened on Aug 4, 2024

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Description

in v1, all you needed was to import and you had access to paths:

use tauri::api::path::home_dir;

#[tauri::command]
fn getPath() -> Result<PathBuf> {
   home_dir()

but now in v2, you need an instance of AppHandle:

use tauri::Manager;

#[tauri::command]
fn getPath(app: tauri::AppHandle) -> Result<PathBuf> {
   app.path().home_dir()

is this intended? also there's no documentation I could find on v2 usage of paths

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Review the Tauri v2 API documentation and source code to confirm the path function changes, then propose documentation updates.
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