Re: [XHR2] Blobs, names and FormData

On 7/11/2011 10:02 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 2011/7/11 Anne van Kesteren<annevk@opera.com>:
>> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:00:55 +0200, Adrian Bateman<adrianba@microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I was about to send a similar proposal. We'd prefer to add an optional
>>> argument to append that specifies the filename. This is the smallest change
>>> to
>>> implementations and doesn't require developers to understand the
>>> BlobBuilder in order to use FormData. Having to create another reference to
>>> a Blob and probably deal with managing a File and Blob both pointing to the
>>> same data seems
>>> unnecessarily involved when all we want is to get the filename into the
>>> FormData object.
>> Isn't the smallest change just setting the file name to "blob" rather than
>> the empty string? I suspect setting the filename might come up elsewhere too
>> (e.g. file system API) so I'd rather not do it here.
> Additionally, what is the use case of being able to set the filename
> during a FormData submission? My perception was that the main use case
> was to not get an empty filename as many serverside implementations of
> multipart/form-data did not deal well with that. I so far have not
> heard a reason to believe that having the ability to specify a precise
> filename is a common use case, so it seems unnecessary to add syntax
> sugar for that.

In document uploading; many doc management sites
retain information about the original filename that has been uploaded and
may use that filename as the default name of the uploaded file.

Received on Monday, 11 July 2011 17:08:48 UTC