On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Adrian Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11 July 2011 10:02, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> Additionally, what is the use case of being able to set the filename
>> during a FormData submission? My perception was that the main use case
>> was to not get an empty filename as many serverside implementations of
>> multipart/form-data did not deal well with that. I so far have not
>> heard a reason to believe that having the ability to specify a precise
>> filename is a common use case, so it seems unnecessary to add syntax
>> sugar for that.
>
> Some content management systems use the original filename by default when
> storing files in document libraries. It's certainly a lesser use case but
> seems like a relatively trivial change to the API. I don't see it as sugar,
> since it's not possible to achieve this on the client in any other way.
I've proposed adding the following function to BlobBuilder:
interface BlobBuilder {
...
File getFile(in DOMString name, [optional] in DOMString contentType)
...
};
This will let you accomplish the same thing in just 2 additional lines
of javascript (one of which can be reused).
/ Jonas
