[timo-drick]

This pull request adds support for the web origin private file system (OPFS), enabling temporary files on web targets.
The main new feature is FileKit.filesDirectory() function which will work on all platforms including web.
Unfortunately there are some things i am not really pleased with. So to be able to support PlatformFile attributes like size, lastModified ... the current web implementation loads a snapshot of a BrowserFile. It will not automatically return the newest size or lastModified values. To get them we need a suspend function interface. So i am also a little bit unsure how to cleanly add this into the architecture of FileKit. But it would be really nice if the user does not need to care which platform it is and can write most of the code in common part. So in the long run would be nice to have suspension functions for the different attributes of the file maybe for everything.

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• New Features

  • Added experimental browser storage support for saving, reading, and deleting files in the browser’s private file system on JS and WASM.
  • Resolve files and directories by relative path, create missing paths, and list directory entries.
  • View file metadata, including size and modification time. Delete directories recursively when needed; the filesystem root cannot be deleted.
  • Files selected through browser pickers remain read-only. Browser storage requires a secure context and may be cleared unless persistent storage is granted.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance on using browser private storage, its limitations and behavior, experimental opt-in, and an example of resolving a file.

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📝 Walkthrough

The web target adds experimental support for the browser’s Origin Private File System (OPFS). New APIs resolve, list, read, write, and delete OPFS entries. Tests and documentation describe these APIs and their constraints.

Changes: Browser OPFS support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
OPFS entries and path operations filekit-core/src/commonMain/.../ExperimentalFileKitApi.kt, filekit-core/src/webMain/.../WebFile.web.kt, filekit-core/src/webMain/.../OriginPrivateFileSystem.web.kt, filekit-core/src/webTest/.../OriginPrivateFileSystemTest.kt, docs/core/platform-file.mdx	Adds an opt-in annotation, OPFS file and directory types, root access, relative-path resolution, and directory listing. Tests cover root metadata, path resolution, equality, and listing. The platform-file documentation adds an OPFS example and opt-in guidance.
PlatformFile access and file operations filekit-core/src/webMain/.../PlatformFile.web.kt, filekit-core/src/webMain/.../OriginPrivateFileSystem.web.kt, filekit-core/src/jsMain/.../OriginPrivateFileSystem.js.kt, filekit-core/src/wasmJsMain/.../OriginPrivateFileSystem.wasmJs.kt, filekit-core/src/webTest/.../OriginPrivateFileSystemTest.kt, docs/core/write-file.mdx	Adds OPFS metadata handling, reads, writes, and deletion to PlatformFile. JS and Wasm JS implementations provide byte conversion. Tests cover file operations. The write-file documentation describes OPFS access and storage constraints.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant PlatformFile
  participant OPFSDirectoryHandle
  participant OPFSFileHandle
  participant WritableStream
  Caller->>PlatformFile: resolveFile with create enabled
  PlatformFile->>OPFSDirectoryHandle: resolve or create file
  OPFSDirectoryHandle-->>PlatformFile: file handle
  PlatformFile-->>Caller: resolved OPFS file
  Caller->>PlatformFile: write bytes
  PlatformFile->>OPFSFileHandle: create writable stream
  OPFSFileHandle-->>PlatformFile: writable stream
  PlatformFile->>WritableStream: write bytes and close
  PlatformFile->>OPFSFileHandle: refresh file snapshot
  Caller->>PlatformFile: read bytes
  PlatformFile->>OPFSFileHandle: get file snapshot

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 423ce

The documentation now explains the experimental opt-in, local browser support, and persistence grants. The selected changes are ready to merge after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b96f5

The new mutation authority is confined to browser-managed origin storage, and picker files remain read-only. The main uncertainty is how interrupted and concurrent operations affect cleanup and persistent state.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Calling code gains mutation authority over the current origin's OPFS tree, including recursive removal of a selected non-root subtree. The API adds no tenant-specific authorization layer; browser-origin isolation remains the relevant boundary. Picker snapshots do not gain writable host-file authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Caller-provided paths are accepted only for OPFS directories. Empty paths and dot segments are rejected before handle traversal. Writes reject non-OPFS files, deletion rejects picker entries and the OPFS root, and missing-entry deletion suppresses only NotFoundError when mustExist is false.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The write path invokes close in a finally block, providing cleanup on ordinary write failure. However, stream acquisition is awaited before entering that block, and browser completion during cancellation or concurrent mutation has not been validated. These remain lifecycle and failure-containment uncertainties, not demonstrated security exploits.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before stabilizing the API, define and validate cancellation and concurrent-replacement semantics: resource ownership during interrupted acquisition, whether cancellation can accompany a committed write, and whether deletion intentionally targets the current path rather than the originally resolved entry.

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🟡 Minor · Reject empty path components before OPFS resolution. · OriginPrivateFileSystem.web.kt:87-96

filekit-core/src/webMain/kotlin/io/github/vinceglb/filekit/OriginPrivateFileSystem.web.kt:87-96
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject empty path components before OPFS resolution.

The parser removes empty components before validation. Therefore /file is accepted as file, and dir/ and a//b are resolved as dir and a/b. A caller can access or create an entry different from the supplied relative path instead of receiving an invalid-path error.

Suggested fix

-    val segments = relative.split('/').filter { it.isNotEmpty() }
+    val segments = relative.split('/')
+    require(segments.all { it.isNotEmpty() }) {
+        "The relative path cannot contain empty segments: \"$relative\""
+    }

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Update the relative-path parsing in the OPFS resolver so empty components are
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[vinceglb]

Hi @timo-drick, thanks a lot for this PR, and for the detailed description!

OPFS support is a great addition to FileKit. You were right in your description: a clean solution would need suspend functions for file attributes. That would change FileKit's core API on every platform, so I'd rather design it separately and keep this PR focused on the web.

I pushed a few changes directly to your branch:

• The OPFS API is now web-only and marked with a new @ExperimentalFileKitApi annotation, so we can still adjust it after the release.
• FileKit.originPrivateDir is a property, consistent with FileKit.filesDir and FileKit.cacheDir. The browser is only called on first use.
• file() and directory() became resolveFile() and resolveDirectory(). They accept relative paths like "notes/today.txt", and create = true also creates the missing parent directories. Empty segments, as in "a//b.txt", are ignored, like with resolve on other platforms.
• listEntries() lists OPFS directories, since list() can't be synchronous there.
• write, writeString and delete keep the same signatures as on other platforms.
• I removed the *Async functions and update(). Each write now refreshes the file snapshot, so size() and lastModified() are correct right after writing.
• delete(recursively = true) now works on non-empty directories, and mustExist = false only ignores missing entries instead of every error.
• OPFS entries are now equal when they have the same path.
• I reverted the WebFile.FileWrapper.file change, since it wasn't used.
• I added 17 OPFS tests and a "Storing files on web" section in the docs, including browser requirements and storage persistence. Web tests now also run in CI (👷 Run JS and Wasm browser tests in CI #683).

Thanks again for your contribution 🙏