On 11.5.2012 18:59, Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo wrote:
Almost a year ago there was a thread about this issue (ability to set
the filename for a Blob) :
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011AprJun/1342.html
2012/5/11 Bronislav Klučka <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Hi,
currently File object cannot be constructed, only Blob can.
I'm currently implementing XHR blob upload, that blob can either
be File (selected by user) or programatically created Blob.
On server side :
1/ In case of File, I get file name as part of the file metadata
(name, size, type, etc)
2/ In case of Blob, I cannot specify name and I have to send it as
additional parameter and ignore name metadata
sending multiple files/blobs at once can be a mess
is there a reason, while File cannot be created? It is Blob with
has name and lastModifyDate .
http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#file
Could there be File constructor, that would work as Blob
constructor with 3rd parameter specifying the name of the file and
lastModifiedDate set to creation date
Brona Klucka
I see... there seems to be some consensus, but it probably died on
little actual interest.
Going through the ideas there, we could amend Jonas'es idea ad consider
something like
var file = blob.getFile(DOMString filename, optional DomString contentType);
to actually get a File object (since we are moving away from BlobBuilder)
Brona Klucka
