Are there nightly or beta anywhere that I can use to develop against
these features, or do I have to build form source?
On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Chris Prince wrote:
The 0.5 release of Gears will contain two new functions on
ResourceStore: captureBlob(url, blob) and getAsBlob(url)
You can find details here:
http://code.google.com/p/gears/source/detail?spec=svn2942&r=2942
Click the "+" icon, or the 'diff' link.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I'm interested in this as well. Can you explain a bit more of how to
map a blob to LocalServer?
On Oct 28, 4:02 am, Khookie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In my case, I would parse the string into data that can be imported
into a local database.
Well, I guess if the data can be mapped somewhere on LocalServer,
then
I can use xmlhttprequest to get it.
Cheers
Chris
On Oct 28, 1:15 pm, "Chris Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's correct, there isn't a Blob.toString() method.
Out of curiosity, how would you use the string after you got it?
Did
you plan to set .innerText or .innerHTML on some element?
What if you could map that Blob to a URL, using a method on
LocalServer? Would that meet your needs?
(The LocalServer feature is in progress. On the other hand, it's
not
totally clear to me what toString() should return in all cases,
since
Blobs often contain non-String data....)
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Khookie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi Chris
I know about openFiles, but as far as I know, you can't read the
contents of the resultant blob can you? I looked at
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_blob.htmlandI can't find out
how you can get a string representation of that blob.
Cheers
Chris
On Oct 28, 4:50 am, "Chris Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hope that makes sense...
Sorry, I still don't understand.
Doesn't the openFiles() function already do what you
want?http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_desktop.html
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Khookie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like to import & export files on client-side
Javascript when a
Gears application is disconnected.
Example: when it's connected, it's not hard to do through
something
like server-side PHP & HTML (i.e. setting the Content-
Disposition
header for downloads & using <INPUT TYPE="file" for
uploads)... but I
would like that capability when it's disconnected.
Hope that makes sense...
Cheers
Chris
On Oct 27, 5:42 pm, "Chris Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you explain a little more about what you want to achieve?
I usually think of "access to blob contents" as building up a
Blob byte-by-byte.
But for importing text files, that shouldn't be necessary,
right?
Something like the openFiles() API would allow importing as
Blob.
(To answer your other question: one reason direct Blob access
hasn't
been designed is that there haven't been many concrete use
cases yet.
It's critical to have a number of important use cases before
designing
and building a feature!)
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Khookie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I noticed a few people in the past have voiced concerns
about wanting
to read the contents of a blob.
I was wondering what the issues are with reading the
contents of a
blob on client-side JS? I presume they're security related?
For my particular use case, I would really like users to be
able to
import text files into a local database while disconnected.
Right
now, I'm using copy & paste but having access to blob
contents would
be so much more usable.
And also, will client-side file writing be available in the
future as
well? Exactly like the aforementioned scenario above but
exporting
text files.
Cheers
Chris
