On 6/30/09 4:07 PM, Thomas Broyer wrote:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Olli Pettay wrote:
On 6/30/09 1:44 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
I'd rather just have an API that lets you split a File into a
sequence<FileData> (where FileData is what File inherits from) of equally
sized chunks, or something like that, than something that lets you get
chunks out in particular forms.
Yeah, that sounds better. Then XHR .send() could accept FileData as a
parameter.
All the .getAsXXX methods would move to that interface and there should be
something like
FileData getFileData(long long offset, long long length)
For the record, Gears' Blob (the almost-equivalent of that FileData if
I'm not mistaken) has a slice(offset,length) method:
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_blob.html
(and a Blob can be passed to an HttpRequest's send() method, and
obtained from an HttpRequest's responseBlob property or in desktop's
openFiles callback; note that a File in Gears doesn't inherit Blob, it
rather has a 'blob' property of type Blob)
But blob doesn't allow one to access the data (which is why I don't like
the API).
-Olli
