- From: Bronislav Klučka <Bronislav.Klucka@bauglir.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 20:20:21 +0200
- To: public-webapps@w3.org
On 11.5.2012 18:59, Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo wrote: > Almost a year ago there was a thread about this issue (ability to set > the filename for a Blob) : > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011AprJun/1342.html > > > 2012/5/11 Bronislav Klučka <Bronislav.Klucka@bauglir.com > <mailto:Bronislav.Klucka@bauglir.com>> > > Hi, > currently File object cannot be constructed, only Blob can. > I'm currently implementing XHR blob upload, that blob can either > be File (selected by user) or programatically created Blob. > On server side : > 1/ In case of File, I get file name as part of the file metadata > (name, size, type, etc) > 2/ In case of Blob, I cannot specify name and I have to send it as > additional parameter and ignore name metadata > > sending multiple files/blobs at once can be a mess > > is there a reason, while File cannot be created? It is Blob with > has name and lastModifyDate . > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#file > > Could there be File constructor, that would work as Blob > constructor with 3rd parameter specifying the name of the file and > lastModifiedDate set to creation date > > Brona Klucka > > > I see... there seems to be some consensus, but it probably died on little actual interest. Going through the ideas there, we could amend Jonas'es idea ad consider something like var file = blob.getFile(DOMString filename, optional DomString contentType); to actually get a File object (since we are moving away from BlobBuilder) Brona Klucka
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