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Retaining original file names

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
dart, flutter
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start by reviewing the cache manager's cache lookup and file metadata flow to determine where original names could be retained. Define how the option should identify an existing cached file and verify that repeated caching of the same file does not create another cache entry.

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Description

🚀 Feature Requests

it will be nice to have an option to retain file names

Contextualize the feature

When we use cache , we need to have a way to track the file to its original name , so that we don't keep caching the same file again and again.

Describe the feature

When we use cache , we need to have a way to track the file to its original name , so that we don't keep caching the same file again and again.

Platforms affected (mark all that apply)

ALL

Dominant language
Dart
Stars
810
Forks
510
Avg merge
2d 2h
Merged PRs (30d)
11

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