I'm working on adding images to page, do something with collection of added images (preview etc) and finally I want them save. Everything is cool until the files object is used to show or save the photo.
var input = document.getElementById('files');
var files = input.files;
as it is an array of objects read only - it is impossible to manipulate it freely. For working with that array friendly I maped it like that:
var addedFiles = added(files);
function added(from) {
return $.map(from, function (i) {
var x = { lastModified: i.lastModified, lastModifiedDate: i.lastModifiedDate, name: i.name, size: i.size, type: i.type, webkitRelativePath: i.webkitRelativePath }
return x;
});
}
... then do something with those files - and I want to preview, and then save - but for example during preview I get an error:
Uncaught TypeError: Failed to execute 'readAsDataURL' on 'FileReader': parameter 1 is not of type 'Blob'.
function readImage(file) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.addEventListener("load", function () {
var image = new Image();
image.addEventListener("load", function () {
preview.innerHTML += drawHtml(this, file);
window.URL.revokeObjectURL(image.src); //blob version
});
image.src = reader.result; //file version
image.src = window.URL.createObjectURL(file) //blob version
});
reader.readAsDataURL(file); // here fire the error
}
When I pass for testing originally file obj to above code every thing is working.
Question:
How to create custom obj (in my case array of obj) that can be parse to file obj
P.S. In project I'm using jquery and javascript
Rather than mapping the File objects to new, incompatible objects, you could instead wrap them with the additional things you need, but then use the underlying original files when reading them:
const fileSelections = Array.prototype.map.call(input.files, file => ({
// This will let you get to the underlying file in the wrapper objects
file,
// If you want pass-throughs, you can do stuff like this:
get lastModified() { return file.lastModified },
// And you can add your own properties/methods as you please
});
function readImage(fileSelection) {
// Unwrap the file
const file = fileSelection.file;
const reader = new FileReader();
reader.addEventListener("load", function () {
const image = new Image();
image.addEventListener("load", function () {
preview.innerHTML += drawHtml(this, file);
window.URL.revokeObjectURL(image.src); //blob version
});
image.src = reader.result; //file version
image.src = window.URL.createObjectURL(file) //blob version
});
reader.readAsDataURL(file);
}
correct answer is blob - it's something amazing for me.
//from is the array of obj - files
function added(from) {
var out = [];
for (var i = 0; i < from.length; i++) {
(function (obj) {
var readerBase64 = new FileReader();
var obj = from[i];
readerBase64.addEventListener("load", function () {
var fileBase64 = readerBase64.result;
var row = { name: obj.name, size: obj.size, type: obj.type, base64: fileBase64 }
out.push(row);
});
readerBase64.readAsDataURL(obj);
})(from[i]);
}
return out;
}
'out' is a table of my own objects with base64, so I can create images for preview and 'do something functions' in the end I'm going to use base64 for create files.
here link for question related to my next step - creating img from blob (where I'm using additional lib b64toBlob)
Related
var profileImage = fileInputInByteArray;
$.ajax({
url: 'abc.com/',
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'json',
data: {
// Other data
ProfileImage: profileimage
// Other data
},
success: {
}
})
// Code in WebAPI
[HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage UpdateProfile([FromUri]UpdateProfileModel response) {
//...
return response;
}
public class UpdateProfileModel {
// ...
public byte[] ProfileImage {get ;set; }
// ...
}
<input type="file" id="inputFile" />
I am using ajax call to post byte[] value of a input type = file input to web api which receives in byte[] format. However, I am experiencing difficulty of getting byte array. I am expecting that we can get the byte array through File API.
Note: I need to store the byte array in a variable first before passing through ajax call
[Edit]
As noted in comments above, while still on some UA implementations, readAsBinaryString method didn't made its way to the specs and should not be used in production.
Instead, use readAsArrayBuffer and loop through it's buffer to get back the binary string :
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', function() {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function() {
var arrayBuffer = this.result,
array = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer),
binaryString = String.fromCharCode.apply(null, array);
console.log(binaryString);
}
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(this.files[0]);
}, false);
<input type="file" />
<div id="result"></div>
For a more robust way to convert your arrayBuffer in binary string, you can refer to this answer.
[old answer] (modified)
Yes, the file API does provide a way to convert your File, in the <input type="file"/> to a binary string, thanks to the FileReader Object and its method readAsBinaryString.
[But don't use it in production !]
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', function(){
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(){
var binaryString = this.result;
document.querySelector('#result').innerHTML = binaryString;
}
reader.readAsBinaryString(this.files[0]);
}, false);
<input type="file"/>
<div id="result"></div>
If you want an array buffer, then you can use the readAsArrayBuffer() method :
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', function(){
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(){
var arrayBuffer = this.result;
console.log(arrayBuffer);
document.querySelector('#result').innerHTML = arrayBuffer + ' '+arrayBuffer.byteLength;
}
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(this.files[0]);
}, false);
<input type="file"/>
<div id="result"></div>
$(document).ready(function(){
(function (document) {
var input = document.getElementById("files"),
output = document.getElementById("result"),
fileData; // We need fileData to be visible to getBuffer.
// Eventhandler for file input.
function openfile(evt) {
var files = input.files;
// Pass the file to the blob, not the input[0].
fileData = new Blob([files[0]]);
// Pass getBuffer to promise.
var promise = new Promise(getBuffer);
// Wait for promise to be resolved, or log error.
promise.then(function(data) {
// Here you can pass the bytes to another function.
output.innerHTML = data.toString();
console.log(data);
}).catch(function(err) {
console.log('Error: ',err);
});
}
/*
Create a function which will be passed to the promise
and resolve it when FileReader has finished loading the file.
*/
function getBuffer(resolve) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(fileData);
reader.onload = function() {
var arrayBuffer = reader.result
var bytes = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer);
resolve(bytes);
}
}
// Eventlistener for file input.
input.addEventListener('change', openfile, false);
}(document));
});
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="file" id="files"/>
<div id="result"></div>
</body>
</html>
Modern browsers now have the arrayBuffer method on Blob's:
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', async (event) => {
const buffer = await event.target.files[0].arrayBuffer()
console.log(buffer)
}, false)
🎉 🎉
This is a long post, but I was tired of all these examples that weren't working for me because they used Promise objects or an errant this that has a different meaning when you are using Reactjs. My implementation was using a DropZone with reactjs, and I got the bytes using a framework similar to what is posted at this following site, when nothing else above would work: https://www.mokuji.me/article/drop-upload-tutorial-1 . There were 2 keys, for me:
You have to get the bytes from the event object, using and during a FileReader's onload function.
I tried various combinations, but in the end, what worked was:
const bytes = e.target.result.split('base64,')[1];
Where e is the event. React requires const, you could use var in plain Javascript. But that gave me the base64 encoded byte string.
So I'm just going to include the applicable lines for integrating this as if you were using React, because that's how I was building it, but try to also generalize this, and add comments where necessary, to make it applicable to a vanilla Javascript implementation - caveated that I did not use it like that in such a construct to test it.
These would be your bindings at the top, in your constructor, in a React framework (not relevant to a vanilla Javascript implementation):
this.uploadFile = this.uploadFile.bind(this);
this.processFile = this.processFile.bind(this);
this.errorHandler = this.errorHandler.bind(this);
this.progressHandler = this.progressHandler.bind(this);
And you'd have onDrop={this.uploadFile} in your DropZone element. If you were doing this without React, this is the equivalent of adding the onclick event handler you want to run when you click the "Upload File" button.
<button onclick="uploadFile(event);" value="Upload File" />
Then the function (applicable lines... I'll leave out my resetting my upload progress indicator, etc.):
uploadFile(event){
// This is for React, only
this.setState({
files: event,
});
console.log('File count: ' + this.state.files.length);
// You might check that the "event" has a file & assign it like this
// in vanilla Javascript:
// var files = event.target.files;
// if (!files && files.length > 0)
// files = (event.dataTransfer ? event.dataTransfer.files :
// event.originalEvent.dataTransfer.files);
// You cannot use "files" as a variable in React, however:
const in_files = this.state.files;
// iterate, if files length > 0
if (in_files.length > 0) {
for (let i = 0; i < in_files.length; i++) {
// use this, instead, for vanilla JS:
// for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
const a = i + 1;
console.log('in loop, pass: ' + a);
const f = in_files[i]; // or just files[i] in vanilla JS
const reader = new FileReader();
reader.onerror = this.errorHandler;
reader.onprogress = this.progressHandler;
reader.onload = this.processFile(f);
reader.readAsDataURL(f);
}
}
}
There was this question on that syntax, for vanilla JS, on how to get that file object:
JavaScript/HTML5/jQuery Drag-And-Drop Upload - "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'files' of undefined"
Note that React's DropZone will already put the File object into this.state.files for you, as long as you add files: [], to your this.state = { .... } in your constructor. I added syntax from an answer on that post on how to get your File object. It should work, or there are other posts there that can help. But all that Q/A told me was how to get the File object, not the blob data, itself. And even if I did fileData = new Blob([files[0]]); like in sebu's answer, which didn't include var with it for some reason, it didn't tell me how to read that blob's contents, and how to do it without a Promise object. So that's where the FileReader came in, though I actually tried and found I couldn't use their readAsArrayBuffer to any avail.
You will have to have the other functions that go along with this construct - one to handle onerror, one for onprogress (both shown farther below), and then the main one, onload, that actually does the work once a method on reader is invoked in that last line. Basically you are passing your event.dataTransfer.files[0] straight into that onload function, from what I can tell.
So the onload method calls my processFile() function (applicable lines, only):
processFile(theFile) {
return function(e) {
const bytes = e.target.result.split('base64,')[1];
}
}
And bytes should have the base64 bytes.
Additional functions:
errorHandler(e){
switch (e.target.error.code) {
case e.target.error.NOT_FOUND_ERR:
alert('File not found.');
break;
case e.target.error.NOT_READABLE_ERR:
alert('File is not readable.');
break;
case e.target.error.ABORT_ERR:
break; // no operation
default:
alert('An error occurred reading this file.');
break;
}
}
progressHandler(e) {
if (e.lengthComputable){
const loaded = Math.round((e.loaded / e.total) * 100);
let zeros = '';
// Percent loaded in string
if (loaded >= 0 && loaded < 10) {
zeros = '00';
}
else if (loaded < 100) {
zeros = '0';
}
// Display progress in 3-digits and increase bar length
document.getElementById("progress").textContent = zeros + loaded.toString();
document.getElementById("progressBar").style.width = loaded + '%';
}
}
And applicable progress indicator markup:
<table id="tblProgress">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><b><span id="progress">000</span>%</b> <span className="progressBar"><span id="progressBar" /></span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
And CSS:
.progressBar {
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .1);
width: 100%;
height: 26px;
}
#progressBar {
background-color: rgba(87, 184, 208, .5);
content: '';
width: 0;
height: 26px;
}
EPILOGUE:
Inside processFile(), for some reason, I couldn't add bytes to a variable I carved out in this.state. So, instead, I set it directly to the variable, attachments, that was in my JSON object, RequestForm - the same object as my this.state was using. attachments is an array so I could push multiple files. It went like this:
const fileArray = [];
// Collect any existing attachments
if (RequestForm.state.attachments.length > 0) {
for (let i=0; i < RequestForm.state.attachments.length; i++) {
fileArray.push(RequestForm.state.attachments[i]);
}
}
// Add the new one to this.state
fileArray.push(bytes);
// Update the state
RequestForm.setState({
attachments: fileArray,
});
Then, because this.state already contained RequestForm:
this.stores = [
RequestForm,
]
I could reference it as this.state.attachments from there on out. React feature that isn't applicable in vanilla JS. You could build a similar construct in plain JavaScript with a global variable, and push, accordingly, however, much easier:
var fileArray = new Array(); // place at the top, before any functions
// Within your processFile():
var newFileArray = [];
if (fileArray.length > 0) {
for (var i=0; i < fileArray.length; i++) {
newFileArray.push(fileArray[i]);
}
}
// Add the new one
newFileArray.push(bytes);
// Now update the global variable
fileArray = newFileArray;
Then you always just reference fileArray, enumerate it for any file byte strings, e.g. var myBytes = fileArray[0]; for the first file.
This is simple way to convert files to Base64 and avoid "maximum call stack size exceeded at FileReader.reader.onload" with the file has big size.
document.querySelector('#fileInput').addEventListener('change', function () {
var reader = new FileReader();
var selectedFile = this.files[0];
reader.onload = function () {
var comma = this.result.indexOf(',');
var base64 = this.result.substr(comma + 1);
console.log(base64);
}
reader.readAsDataURL(selectedFile);
}, false);
<input id="fileInput" type="file" />
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', function(){
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(){
var arrayBuffer = this.result,
array = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer),
binaryString = String.fromCharCode.apply(null, array);
console.log(binaryString);
console.log(arrayBuffer);
document.querySelector('#result').innerHTML = arrayBuffer + ' '+arrayBuffer.byteLength;
}
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(this.files[0]);
}, false);
<input type="file"/>
<div id="result"></div>
Here is one answer to get the actual final byte array , just using FileReader and ArrayBuffer :
const test_function = async () => {
... ... ...
const get_file_array = (file) => {
return new Promise((acc, err) => {
const reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = (event) => { acc(event.target.result) };
reader.onerror = (err) => { err(err) };
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
});
}
const temp = await get_file_array(files[0])
console.log('here we finally ve the file as a ArrayBuffer : ',temp);
const fileb = new Uint8Array(fileb)
... ... ...
}
where file is directly the File object u want to read , this has to be done in a async function...
TinyMCE is not allowing multiple file uploads in a post. You can select a file, and it will insert into the TinyMCE editor however once you submit, only the last inserted image is uploaded.
Below is the code I am working with: (the [0] is removed on the second attempt in which I was thinking TinyMCE would handle the files array)
if (meta.filetype == 'image') {
$('#upload').trigger('click')
$('#upload').on('change', function() {
var file = this.files[0]
var reader = new FileReader()
var name = file.name.split('.')[0]
var blobCache = tinymce.activeEditor.editorUpload.blobCache
var blobInfo = blobCache.create(name, file, reader.result)
blobCache.add(blobInfo);
reader.onload = function(e) {
callback(blobInfo.blobUri(), {
alt: file.name,
title: name
})
}
reader.readAsDataURL(file)
})
}
}
I have tried to append additional files with a for loop and removed the [0] from files and split without success.
file_picker_callback: function(callback, value, meta) {
if (meta.filetype == 'image') {
$('#upload').trigger('click')
$('#upload').on('change', function() {
var file = this.files//[0]
var reader = new FileReader()
var name = []
for(var x = 0; x < file.length; x++) {
name.push(file[x].name.split('.'))
}
var blobCache = tinymce.activeEditor.editorUpload.blobCache
var blobInfo = blobCache.create(name, file, reader.result)
blobCache.add(blobInfo);
reader.onload = function(e) {
callback(blobInfo.blobUri(), {alt: file.name, title: name})
}
reader.readAsDataURL(file)
})
}
}
I have also tried allowing auto upload which only work for the first image and the rest fallback to base64 in the database. Lastly, I tried to combine all files in order to upload however I'm not seeing different file names in console.log. For instance I attach one file, I see one file in console.log, I attach another, I see two responses in console.log but with the most recent attached file but only the last attached image will upload on submit. It seems that TinyMCE overwrites the file with each image attachemnt.
Is there a different approach to this so I can add images to a post with TinyMCE and upon submit, they are all uploaded instead of the last image attached?
Changed to the following now for a working solution. Using the name for the first argument when calling blobCache.create was the cause of the issue, a unique blobid is required instead.
file_picker_callback: function(callback, value, meta) {
if (meta.filetype == 'image') {
$('#upload').on('change', function() {
var file = this.files[0]
var reader = new FileReader()
reader.onload = function(e) {
// var name = file.name.split('.')[0] // replaced with id below
// var base64 = reader.result.split(',')[1]; // for base64
var id = 'blobid' + (new Date()).getTime();
var blobCache = tinymce.activeEditor.editorUpload.blobCache
var blobInfo = blobCache.create(id, file, reader.result)
blobCache.add(blobInfo);
callback(blobInfo.blobUri(), {alt: file.name, title: name})
}
reader.readAsDataURL(file)
})
$('#upload').trigger('click')
}
}
I need your help with following problem:
I have HTML input which supports multiple files;
I upload let's say 5 files;
Each file is processed: it is readAsDataURL by FileReader and data of file is saved to object(there will be other params saved too, that is why object), which is pushed to array.
After I run flow I described, length of final array is NOT changed.
I believe problem is in async behaviour, but I cannot understand how should I change code to make it work, that is why I ask you for a help. Please find code below:
var controls = document.getElementById('controls');
function processUploadedFilesData(files) {
if (!files[0]) {
return;
};
var uploads = [];
for (var i = 0, length = files.length; i < length; i++) {
(function(file) {
var reader = new FileReader();
//I need object, as other params will be saved too in future;
var newFile = {};
reader.readAsDataURL(file);
reader.onloadend = function(e) {
newFile.data = e.target.result;
uploads.push(newFile);
}
})(files[i]);
}
return uploads;
}
controls.addEventListener('change', function(e) {
var uploadedFilesOfUser = processUploadedFilesData(e.target.files);
alert(uploadedFilesOfUser.length);
});
Codepen example - https://codepen.io/yodeco/pen/xWevRy
var profileImage = fileInputInByteArray;
$.ajax({
url: 'abc.com/',
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'json',
data: {
// Other data
ProfileImage: profileimage
// Other data
},
success: {
}
})
// Code in WebAPI
[HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage UpdateProfile([FromUri]UpdateProfileModel response) {
//...
return response;
}
public class UpdateProfileModel {
// ...
public byte[] ProfileImage {get ;set; }
// ...
}
<input type="file" id="inputFile" />
I am using ajax call to post byte[] value of a input type = file input to web api which receives in byte[] format. However, I am experiencing difficulty of getting byte array. I am expecting that we can get the byte array through File API.
Note: I need to store the byte array in a variable first before passing through ajax call
[Edit]
As noted in comments above, while still on some UA implementations, readAsBinaryString method didn't made its way to the specs and should not be used in production.
Instead, use readAsArrayBuffer and loop through it's buffer to get back the binary string :
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', function() {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function() {
var arrayBuffer = this.result,
array = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer),
binaryString = String.fromCharCode.apply(null, array);
console.log(binaryString);
}
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(this.files[0]);
}, false);
<input type="file" />
<div id="result"></div>
For a more robust way to convert your arrayBuffer in binary string, you can refer to this answer.
[old answer] (modified)
Yes, the file API does provide a way to convert your File, in the <input type="file"/> to a binary string, thanks to the FileReader Object and its method readAsBinaryString.
[But don't use it in production !]
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', function(){
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(){
var binaryString = this.result;
document.querySelector('#result').innerHTML = binaryString;
}
reader.readAsBinaryString(this.files[0]);
}, false);
<input type="file"/>
<div id="result"></div>
If you want an array buffer, then you can use the readAsArrayBuffer() method :
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', function(){
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(){
var arrayBuffer = this.result;
console.log(arrayBuffer);
document.querySelector('#result').innerHTML = arrayBuffer + ' '+arrayBuffer.byteLength;
}
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(this.files[0]);
}, false);
<input type="file"/>
<div id="result"></div>
$(document).ready(function(){
(function (document) {
var input = document.getElementById("files"),
output = document.getElementById("result"),
fileData; // We need fileData to be visible to getBuffer.
// Eventhandler for file input.
function openfile(evt) {
var files = input.files;
// Pass the file to the blob, not the input[0].
fileData = new Blob([files[0]]);
// Pass getBuffer to promise.
var promise = new Promise(getBuffer);
// Wait for promise to be resolved, or log error.
promise.then(function(data) {
// Here you can pass the bytes to another function.
output.innerHTML = data.toString();
console.log(data);
}).catch(function(err) {
console.log('Error: ',err);
});
}
/*
Create a function which will be passed to the promise
and resolve it when FileReader has finished loading the file.
*/
function getBuffer(resolve) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(fileData);
reader.onload = function() {
var arrayBuffer = reader.result
var bytes = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer);
resolve(bytes);
}
}
// Eventlistener for file input.
input.addEventListener('change', openfile, false);
}(document));
});
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="file" id="files"/>
<div id="result"></div>
</body>
</html>
Modern browsers now have the arrayBuffer method on Blob's:
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', async (event) => {
const buffer = await event.target.files[0].arrayBuffer()
console.log(buffer)
}, false)
🎉 🎉
This is a long post, but I was tired of all these examples that weren't working for me because they used Promise objects or an errant this that has a different meaning when you are using Reactjs. My implementation was using a DropZone with reactjs, and I got the bytes using a framework similar to what is posted at this following site, when nothing else above would work: https://www.mokuji.me/article/drop-upload-tutorial-1 . There were 2 keys, for me:
You have to get the bytes from the event object, using and during a FileReader's onload function.
I tried various combinations, but in the end, what worked was:
const bytes = e.target.result.split('base64,')[1];
Where e is the event. React requires const, you could use var in plain Javascript. But that gave me the base64 encoded byte string.
So I'm just going to include the applicable lines for integrating this as if you were using React, because that's how I was building it, but try to also generalize this, and add comments where necessary, to make it applicable to a vanilla Javascript implementation - caveated that I did not use it like that in such a construct to test it.
These would be your bindings at the top, in your constructor, in a React framework (not relevant to a vanilla Javascript implementation):
this.uploadFile = this.uploadFile.bind(this);
this.processFile = this.processFile.bind(this);
this.errorHandler = this.errorHandler.bind(this);
this.progressHandler = this.progressHandler.bind(this);
And you'd have onDrop={this.uploadFile} in your DropZone element. If you were doing this without React, this is the equivalent of adding the onclick event handler you want to run when you click the "Upload File" button.
<button onclick="uploadFile(event);" value="Upload File" />
Then the function (applicable lines... I'll leave out my resetting my upload progress indicator, etc.):
uploadFile(event){
// This is for React, only
this.setState({
files: event,
});
console.log('File count: ' + this.state.files.length);
// You might check that the "event" has a file & assign it like this
// in vanilla Javascript:
// var files = event.target.files;
// if (!files && files.length > 0)
// files = (event.dataTransfer ? event.dataTransfer.files :
// event.originalEvent.dataTransfer.files);
// You cannot use "files" as a variable in React, however:
const in_files = this.state.files;
// iterate, if files length > 0
if (in_files.length > 0) {
for (let i = 0; i < in_files.length; i++) {
// use this, instead, for vanilla JS:
// for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
const a = i + 1;
console.log('in loop, pass: ' + a);
const f = in_files[i]; // or just files[i] in vanilla JS
const reader = new FileReader();
reader.onerror = this.errorHandler;
reader.onprogress = this.progressHandler;
reader.onload = this.processFile(f);
reader.readAsDataURL(f);
}
}
}
There was this question on that syntax, for vanilla JS, on how to get that file object:
JavaScript/HTML5/jQuery Drag-And-Drop Upload - "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'files' of undefined"
Note that React's DropZone will already put the File object into this.state.files for you, as long as you add files: [], to your this.state = { .... } in your constructor. I added syntax from an answer on that post on how to get your File object. It should work, or there are other posts there that can help. But all that Q/A told me was how to get the File object, not the blob data, itself. And even if I did fileData = new Blob([files[0]]); like in sebu's answer, which didn't include var with it for some reason, it didn't tell me how to read that blob's contents, and how to do it without a Promise object. So that's where the FileReader came in, though I actually tried and found I couldn't use their readAsArrayBuffer to any avail.
You will have to have the other functions that go along with this construct - one to handle onerror, one for onprogress (both shown farther below), and then the main one, onload, that actually does the work once a method on reader is invoked in that last line. Basically you are passing your event.dataTransfer.files[0] straight into that onload function, from what I can tell.
So the onload method calls my processFile() function (applicable lines, only):
processFile(theFile) {
return function(e) {
const bytes = e.target.result.split('base64,')[1];
}
}
And bytes should have the base64 bytes.
Additional functions:
errorHandler(e){
switch (e.target.error.code) {
case e.target.error.NOT_FOUND_ERR:
alert('File not found.');
break;
case e.target.error.NOT_READABLE_ERR:
alert('File is not readable.');
break;
case e.target.error.ABORT_ERR:
break; // no operation
default:
alert('An error occurred reading this file.');
break;
}
}
progressHandler(e) {
if (e.lengthComputable){
const loaded = Math.round((e.loaded / e.total) * 100);
let zeros = '';
// Percent loaded in string
if (loaded >= 0 && loaded < 10) {
zeros = '00';
}
else if (loaded < 100) {
zeros = '0';
}
// Display progress in 3-digits and increase bar length
document.getElementById("progress").textContent = zeros + loaded.toString();
document.getElementById("progressBar").style.width = loaded + '%';
}
}
And applicable progress indicator markup:
<table id="tblProgress">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><b><span id="progress">000</span>%</b> <span className="progressBar"><span id="progressBar" /></span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
And CSS:
.progressBar {
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .1);
width: 100%;
height: 26px;
}
#progressBar {
background-color: rgba(87, 184, 208, .5);
content: '';
width: 0;
height: 26px;
}
EPILOGUE:
Inside processFile(), for some reason, I couldn't add bytes to a variable I carved out in this.state. So, instead, I set it directly to the variable, attachments, that was in my JSON object, RequestForm - the same object as my this.state was using. attachments is an array so I could push multiple files. It went like this:
const fileArray = [];
// Collect any existing attachments
if (RequestForm.state.attachments.length > 0) {
for (let i=0; i < RequestForm.state.attachments.length; i++) {
fileArray.push(RequestForm.state.attachments[i]);
}
}
// Add the new one to this.state
fileArray.push(bytes);
// Update the state
RequestForm.setState({
attachments: fileArray,
});
Then, because this.state already contained RequestForm:
this.stores = [
RequestForm,
]
I could reference it as this.state.attachments from there on out. React feature that isn't applicable in vanilla JS. You could build a similar construct in plain JavaScript with a global variable, and push, accordingly, however, much easier:
var fileArray = new Array(); // place at the top, before any functions
// Within your processFile():
var newFileArray = [];
if (fileArray.length > 0) {
for (var i=0; i < fileArray.length; i++) {
newFileArray.push(fileArray[i]);
}
}
// Add the new one
newFileArray.push(bytes);
// Now update the global variable
fileArray = newFileArray;
Then you always just reference fileArray, enumerate it for any file byte strings, e.g. var myBytes = fileArray[0]; for the first file.
This is simple way to convert files to Base64 and avoid "maximum call stack size exceeded at FileReader.reader.onload" with the file has big size.
document.querySelector('#fileInput').addEventListener('change', function () {
var reader = new FileReader();
var selectedFile = this.files[0];
reader.onload = function () {
var comma = this.result.indexOf(',');
var base64 = this.result.substr(comma + 1);
console.log(base64);
}
reader.readAsDataURL(selectedFile);
}, false);
<input id="fileInput" type="file" />
document.querySelector('input').addEventListener('change', function(){
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(){
var arrayBuffer = this.result,
array = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer),
binaryString = String.fromCharCode.apply(null, array);
console.log(binaryString);
console.log(arrayBuffer);
document.querySelector('#result').innerHTML = arrayBuffer + ' '+arrayBuffer.byteLength;
}
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(this.files[0]);
}, false);
<input type="file"/>
<div id="result"></div>
Here is one answer to get the actual final byte array , just using FileReader and ArrayBuffer :
const test_function = async () => {
... ... ...
const get_file_array = (file) => {
return new Promise((acc, err) => {
const reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = (event) => { acc(event.target.result) };
reader.onerror = (err) => { err(err) };
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
});
}
const temp = await get_file_array(files[0])
console.log('here we finally ve the file as a ArrayBuffer : ',temp);
const fileb = new Uint8Array(fileb)
... ... ...
}
where file is directly the File object u want to read , this has to be done in a async function...
I'm wrting a function which takes an image from a file input from a form and enables me to put it in localstorage. The function I wrote to achieve this:
function getImage() {
var pic = document.getElementById("image").files[0];
var imgUrl;
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(e) {
var imgURL = reader.result;
saveDataToLocalStorage(imgURL);
return imgUrl;
}
}
Then in another function I call this function and create a JSON entry in which I store values from other form inputs including the image. It looks like this:
var imgUrl = getImage();
// Create new JSON entry
var json_entry = {'title': titleField.val(),
'image': imgUrl,
'content': contentField.val(),
'location': location};
Sadly the value of imgUrl is undefined.. There are no console errors. What am I doing wrong? And how can I fix this?
I honestly don't know much about the FileReader object, but I can see just from glancing at your JS that (at least) one thing is off:
var imgUrl = getImage();
Your getImage function doesn't return anything; so imgUrl is definitely going to be undefined above.
If you want to do something with the result property of your FileReader, then you need to do so w/ a callback since you're handling the (asynchronous) onload event:
function getImage(callback) {
// What are you doing with this?
var pic = document.getElementById("image").files[0];
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(e) {
var imgURL = reader.result;
saveDataToLocalStorage(imgURL);
// Note the difference here: rather than return from the event handler
// (which effectively does nothing) we pass the result to a callback.
callback(imgUrl);
}
// I assume you actually need to load something with the FileReader?
}
And then:
getImage(function(imgUrl) {
var json_entry = {
'title': titleField.val(),
'image': imgUrl,
'content': contentField.val(),
'location': location
};
});
It looks like you are forgetting to set the reader to readAsDataUrl. Likely the value is coming back as undefined because localStorage does not inherently know how to serialize binary data. Setting the reader to readAsDataUrl changes reader.result onload.
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(e) {
var imgURL = reader.result;
saveDataToLocalStorage(imgURL);
callback(imgUrl);
};
// add this line
reader.readAsDataURL(pic);
Have a look at this article, especially the section titled Reading Files. Note in the linked example the author uses e.target.result instead of reader.result. This should be the same value.