It actually does in the latest version. Blob has a getBytes() method. You can also concatenate blobs together using a new object called a BlobBuilder.
I'm in the process of updating the docs and will report back when done. - a On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Olli Pettay<olli.pet...@helsinki.fi> wrote: > 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 > >
