Re: New draft of FileWriter API posted

Is there no way without the future Filesystem API to programmatically
read/write a file (i.e., without user interaction)?  For instance, say I
want to save an image without bringing up an OS- or browser-dependent SaveAs
dialog...is that possible?

--mike

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Kinuko Yasuda <kinuko@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Kinuko Yasuda <kinuko@chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Thanks for posting this.  Some questions:
>> >> > 1-  What is the proposed way to get a FileWriter from an <INPUT
>> >> > type="saveas"> element?
>> >>
>> >> I was thinking of something like:
>> >>
>> >> var writer = document.forms['downloadData']['fileChooser'].fileWriter;
>> >>
>> >> If we make it parallel to the file reader API, that would be an array
>> >> rather than a single FileWriter, but it's not clear to me that you'll
>> >> ever actually want to browse for more than one save location in a
>> >> single operation.
>> >
>> > Hi Eric,
>> > I've come up with another question...how do you plan about how to obtain
>> a
>> > FileWriterSync instance in a worker context?
>>
>> That's a good question.  I'd mainly put the sync API in there to
>> support uses from the FileSystem API [I haven't posted the full spec
>> yet, but the basic idea is at [1]].
>>
>> > As for obtaining a FileWriter in a worker context, probably what user
>> should
>> > do is get an instance from the document's SaveAs input element and send
>> it
>> > to the worker by calling postMessage()?
>>
>> That seems quite reasonable.  At that point it might also make sense
>> to be able to create a FileWriterSync from a FileWriter, if you're a
>> worker.  I'll try to think of a clean way to do that.
>>
>> We'll probably want to invalidate the FileWriter passed in this
>> manner, though, to keep the same underlying file handle from being
>> used in multiple places at once.
>> [1]
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2010Jan/0229.html
>
>
> I see, thanks.  So the real usage will come with the FileSystem API.  I'll
> move things forward with a loose assumption that we may have some transient
> way to obtain FileWriterSync from a FileWriter for now.
>
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