I've not used it yet, but there's a module for doing that here: https://github.com/simonh1000/file-reader
Note you have to enable native modules in your config, and you can't just install it as a package as Elm packages don't allow native code. On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Martin DeMello <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a bit lost trying to put the pieces together for this. I have a web > service that does file format conversion, and I want to use the > binary->json converter to import a binary file into an elm frontend. > > Here's some code to illustrate what I want to achieve. I can call my > webapp via > > $ curl --form "[email protected]" --form "from=binary" --form > "to=json" http://localhost:1234/json > > and in my view I have > > form [class "pure-form", id "convert-form"] > [ fieldset [] > [ input [ type' "file" , class "pure-button"] [] > , a [class "pure-button", onClick UploadFile] [text "Load"] > ] > ] > > From what I can tell, I'll need to go through the ports system both to > upload the file and to attach the binary data to a POST request, but I'm > not too familiar with javascript either, and I'm hoping this is something > someone has already figured out for their own app. > > martin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Elm Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
