We didn't come to much of a resolution.
It was suggested that the current behavior in browsers was incorrect;
that the File should become inaccessible if/when it changes.
There still seems to be some hang-up on the Directory entry concept. For
example, WebKit allows the drag and drop (and selection via input file
-webkit-directory) of a directory,
creating directory entry hooks, and Mozilla does not seem to support that.
All vendors (I believe) are supportive of stashing File objects into
IndexedDB.
I don't know that we've made it any further on the concept of mount
points and/or simple input file directory standardization, and as such,
there's not been progress on
file / directory watchers.
-Charles
On 5/29/2013 11:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Interesting conversation, thanks for pointing to it :-)
So it seems FileList should be live objects that show updates and
removals of files and this would be fetched poolling over it (not
perfect, but does the job). Ok, I have seen this yet and in fact I'm
doing a "hack" looking when modifiedTime and length are null on Chrome
to detect when a file has been (re)moved, but what happens when a file
is added? How can I be able to detect it? I'm specially interested on
this use case.
El 29/05/2013 19:51, "Charles Pritchard" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> escribió:
On 5/29/2013 10:26 AM, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Currently there's no way to fetch real time filesystem
modifications inside webapps, both on FileLists or DirEntries.
I propose to add filesystem monitoring events to the
DirEntries objects, so when a file or directory is added,
removed or modified a corresponding event would buble on the
filesystem hierarchy up to the DirEntry object where an event
listener is registered to catch it, so the webapp would act in
correspondance (hashing the files, uploading them...).
This would also be applied to the FileSystem API and the
DeviceStorage API (so for example files dropped on that folder
would be uploaded and later removed, in a mail box or printer
queue style) and up to some degree on FileList objects, too.
See also:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMar/0087.html
