Get file name from session tokken

Photoshop UXP Plugin API
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HI Everyone
I m trying to make a UXP for photoshop in which at the beginning i am taking taking images from user. i instantly converted them to tokens and saved in an array, now at the later stages of my plugin i want to loop through those images and get the name of all images.
The problem is that now the array contain the session tokens , hwo i should get the name without opening each image.

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const fileTypes = [“jpg”, “jpeg”, “png”];
const options = {
types: fileTypes,
canSelectMultiple: true
};
const pickedFiles = await fs.getFileForOpening(options);
if (pickedFiles) {
pickedFiles.forEach(pImg => {
srcPathTokken.push(fs.createSessionToken(pickedFiles))
});
}

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// and in addition to that can any expert guide me how to handle the flow next time for a structure like that

Thanks

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When you push to the array why not push an object that includes the filename and the token as properties?

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a token is a string and not an object, so as it is you can’t get anything from it.
your options are:

  1. convert it back to entry when needed and get name from entry (not recommended) 
myEntry = await fs.getEntryForPersistentToken(myToken)
fileName = myEntry.name
  1. get and store file path and/or name from entry while converting it to a token

I’d store my tokens as an array of objects

let fileTypes = ["jpg", "jpeg", "png"];
let options = {
    types: fileTypes,
    allowMultiple: true //not canSelectMultiple
      };
let myFiles = await fs.getFileForOpening(options);

if (myFiles){
    let myTokens = myFiles.map((myEntry) => {
        return {
        name: myEntry.name,
        path: myEntry.nativePath,
        token: fs.createSessionToken(myEntry)
        }
    })
}

now the array called myTokens will contain a list of objects

[{
      name: "file1.jpg",
      path: "D:\myFolder\file1.jpg",
      token: "session-token/xxxxxxxxxxx"
},
{
      name: "file2.jpg",
      path: "D:\myFolder\file2.jpg",
      token: "session-token/xxxxxxxxxxx"
}]

to loop through it:

myTokens.forEach(myToken => {
      console.log(myToken.name);
      console.log(myToken.path);
      console.log(myToken.token);
})

you can also store just the path of the file and get name like this:

let fileName = path.basename(myToken.path)
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because i am too weak in programming, :sweat_smile:
got the solution now. Thankyou