I tried to use ng-model on input tag with type file:
<input type="file" ng-model="vm.uploadme" />
But after selecting a file, in controller, $scope.vm.uploadme is still undefined.
How do I get the selected file in my controller?
I created a workaround with directive:
.directive("fileread", [function () {
return {
scope: {
fileread: "="
},
link: function (scope, element, attributes) {
element.bind("change", function (changeEvent) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (loadEvent) {
scope.$apply(function () {
scope.fileread = loadEvent.target.result;
});
}
reader.readAsDataURL(changeEvent.target.files[0]);
});
}
}
}]);
And the input tag becomes:
<input type="file" fileread="vm.uploadme" />
Or if just the file definition is needed:
.directive("fileread", [function () {
return {
scope: {
fileread: "="
},
link: function (scope, element, attributes) {
element.bind("change", function (changeEvent) {
scope.$apply(function () {
scope.fileread = changeEvent.target.files[0];
// or all selected files:
// scope.fileread = changeEvent.target.files;
});
});
}
}
}]);
I use this directive:
angular.module('appFilereader', []).directive('appFilereader', function($q) {
var slice = Array.prototype.slice;
return {
restrict: 'A',
require: '?ngModel',
link: function(scope, element, attrs, ngModel) {
if (!ngModel) return;
ngModel.$render = function() {};
element.bind('change', function(e) {
var element = e.target;
$q.all(slice.call(element.files, 0).map(readFile))
.then(function(values) {
if (element.multiple) ngModel.$setViewValue(values);
else ngModel.$setViewValue(values.length ? values[0] : null);
});
function readFile(file) {
var deferred = $q.defer();
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(e) {
deferred.resolve(e.target.result);
};
reader.onerror = function(e) {
deferred.reject(e);
};
reader.readAsDataURL(file);
return deferred.promise;
}
}); //change
} //link
}; //return
});
and invoke it like this:
<input type="file" ng-model="editItem._attachments_uri.image" accept="image/*" app-filereader />
The property (editItem.editItem._attachments_uri.image) will be populated with the contents of the file you select as a data-uri (!).
Please do note that this script will not upload anything. It will only populate your model with the contents of your file encoded ad a data-uri (base64).
Check out a working demo here:
http://plnkr.co/CMiHKv2BEidM9SShm9Vv
How to enable <input type="file"> to work with ng-model
Working Demo of Directive that Works with ng-model
The core ng-model directive does not work with <input type="file"> out of the box.
This custom directive enables ng-model and has the added benefit of enabling the ng-change, ng-required, and ng-form directives to work with <input type="file">.
angular.module("app",[]);
angular.module("app").directive("selectNgFiles", function() {
return {
require: "ngModel",
link: function postLink(scope,elem,attrs,ngModel) {
elem.on("change", function(e) {
var files = elem[0].files;
ngModel.$setViewValue(files);
})
}
}
});
<script src="//unpkg.com/angular/angular.js"></script>
<body ng-app="app">
<h1>AngularJS Input `type=file` Demo</h1>
<input type="file" select-ng-files ng-model="fileArray" multiple>
<code><table ng-show="fileArray.length">
<tr><td>Name</td><td>Date</td><td>Size</td><td>Type</td><tr>
<tr ng-repeat="file in fileArray">
<td>{{file.name}}</td>
<td>{{file.lastModified | date : 'MMMdd,yyyy'}}</td>
<td>{{file.size}}</td>
<td>{{file.type}}</td>
</tr>
</table></code>
</body>
This is an addendum to #endy-tjahjono's solution.
I ended up not being able to get the value of uploadme from the scope. Even though uploadme in the HTML was visibly updated by the directive, I could still not access its value by $scope.uploadme. I was able to set its value from the scope, though. Mysterious, right..?
As it turned out, a child scope was created by the directive, and the child scope had its own uploadme.
The solution was to use an object rather than a primitive to hold the value of uploadme.
In the controller I have:
$scope.uploadme = {};
$scope.uploadme.src = "";
and in the HTML:
<input type="file" fileread="uploadme.src"/>
<input type="text" ng-model="uploadme.src"/>
There are no changes to the directive.
Now, it all works like expected. I can grab the value of uploadme.src from my controller using $scope.uploadme.
I create a directive and registered on bower.
This lib will help you modeling input file, not only return file data but also file dataurl or base 64.
{
"lastModified": 1438583972000,
"lastModifiedDate": "2015-08-03T06:39:32.000Z",
"name": "gitignore_global.txt",
"size": 236,
"type": "text/plain",
"data": "data:text/plain;base64,DQojaWdub3JlIHRodW1ibmFpbHMgY3JlYXRlZCBieSB3aW5kb3dz…xoDQoqLmJhaw0KKi5jYWNoZQ0KKi5pbGsNCioubG9nDQoqLmRsbA0KKi5saWINCiouc2JyDQo="
}
https://github.com/mistralworks/ng-file-model/
This is a slightly modified version that lets you specify the name of the attribute in the scope, just as you would do with ng-model, usage:
<myUpload key="file"></myUpload>
Directive:
.directive('myUpload', function() {
return {
link: function postLink(scope, element, attrs) {
element.find("input").bind("change", function(changeEvent) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(loadEvent) {
scope.$apply(function() {
scope[attrs.key] = loadEvent.target.result;
});
}
if (typeof(changeEvent.target.files[0]) === 'object') {
reader.readAsDataURL(changeEvent.target.files[0]);
};
});
},
controller: 'FileUploadCtrl',
template:
'<span class="btn btn-success fileinput-button">' +
'<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-plus"></i>' +
'<span>Replace Image</span>' +
'<input type="file" accept="image/*" name="files[]" multiple="">' +
'</span>',
restrict: 'E'
};
});
For multiple files input using lodash or underscore:
.directive("fileread", [function () {
return {
scope: {
fileread: "="
},
link: function (scope, element, attributes) {
element.bind("change", function (changeEvent) {
return _.map(changeEvent.target.files, function(file){
scope.fileread = [];
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (loadEvent) {
scope.$apply(function () {
scope.fileread.push(loadEvent.target.result);
});
}
reader.readAsDataURL(file);
});
});
}
}
}]);
function filesModelDirective(){
return {
controller: function($parse, $element, $attrs, $scope){
var exp = $parse($attrs.filesModel);
$element.on('change', function(){
exp.assign($scope, this.files[0]);
$scope.$apply();
});
}
};
}
app.directive('filesModel', filesModelDirective);
I had to do same on multiple input, so i updated #Endy Tjahjono method.
It returns an array containing all readed files.
.directive("fileread", function () {
return {
scope: {
fileread: "="
},
link: function (scope, element, attributes) {
element.bind("change", function (changeEvent) {
var readers = [] ,
files = changeEvent.target.files ,
datas = [] ;
for ( var i = 0 ; i < files.length ; i++ ) {
readers[ i ] = new FileReader();
readers[ i ].onload = function (loadEvent) {
datas.push( loadEvent.target.result );
if ( datas.length === files.length ){
scope.$apply(function () {
scope.fileread = datas;
});
}
}
readers[ i ].readAsDataURL( files[i] );
}
});
}
}
});
I had to modify Endy's directive so that I can get Last Modified, lastModifiedDate, name, size, type, and data as well as be able to get an array of files. For those of you that needed these extra features, here you go.
UPDATE:
I found a bug where if you select the file(s) and then go to select again but cancel instead, the files are never deselected like it appears. So I updated my code to fix that.
.directive("fileread", function () {
return {
scope: {
fileread: "="
},
link: function (scope, element, attributes) {
element.bind("change", function (changeEvent) {
var readers = [] ,
files = changeEvent.target.files ,
datas = [] ;
if(!files.length){
scope.$apply(function () {
scope.fileread = [];
});
return;
}
for ( var i = 0 ; i < files.length ; i++ ) {
readers[ i ] = new FileReader();
readers[ i ].index = i;
readers[ i ].onload = function (loadEvent) {
var index = loadEvent.target.index;
datas.push({
lastModified: files[index].lastModified,
lastModifiedDate: files[index].lastModifiedDate,
name: files[index].name,
size: files[index].size,
type: files[index].type,
data: loadEvent.target.result
});
if ( datas.length === files.length ){
scope.$apply(function () {
scope.fileread = datas;
});
}
};
readers[ i ].readAsDataURL( files[i] );
}
});
}
}
});
If you want something a little more elegant/integrated, you can use a decorator to extend the input directive with support for type=file. The main caveat to keep in mind is that this method will not work in IE9 since IE9 didn't implement the File API. Using JavaScript to upload binary data regardless of type via XHR is simply not possible natively in IE9 or earlier (use of ActiveXObject to access the local filesystem doesn't count as using ActiveX is just asking for security troubles).
This exact method also requires AngularJS 1.4.x or later, but you may be able to adapt this to use $provide.decorator rather than angular.Module.decorator - I wrote this gist to demonstrate how to do it while conforming to John Papa's AngularJS style guide:
(function() {
'use strict';
/**
* #ngdoc input
* #name input[file]
*
* #description
* Adds very basic support for ngModel to `input[type=file]` fields.
*
* Requires AngularJS 1.4.x or later. Does not support Internet Explorer 9 - the browser's
* implementation of `HTMLInputElement` must have a `files` property for file inputs.
*
* #param {string} ngModel
* Assignable AngularJS expression to data-bind to. The data-bound object will be an instance
* of {#link https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileList `FileList`}.
* #param {string=} name Property name of the form under which the control is published.
* #param {string=} ngChange
* AngularJS expression to be executed when input changes due to user interaction with the
* input element.
*/
angular
.module('yourModuleNameHere')
.decorator('inputDirective', myInputFileDecorator);
myInputFileDecorator.$inject = ['$delegate', '$browser', '$sniffer', '$filter', '$parse'];
function myInputFileDecorator($delegate, $browser, $sniffer, $filter, $parse) {
var inputDirective = $delegate[0],
preLink = inputDirective.link.pre;
inputDirective.link.pre = function (scope, element, attr, ctrl) {
if (ctrl[0]) {
if (angular.lowercase(attr.type) === 'file') {
fileInputType(
scope, element, attr, ctrl[0], $sniffer, $browser, $filter, $parse);
} else {
preLink.apply(this, arguments);
}
}
};
return $delegate;
}
function fileInputType(scope, element, attr, ctrl, $sniffer, $browser, $filter, $parse) {
element.on('change', function (ev) {
if (angular.isDefined(element[0].files)) {
ctrl.$setViewValue(element[0].files, ev && ev.type);
}
})
ctrl.$isEmpty = function (value) {
return !value || value.length === 0;
};
}
})();
Why wasn't this done in the first place? AngularJS support is intended to reach only as far back as IE9. If you disagree with this decision and think they should have just put this in anyway, then jump the wagon to Angular 2+ because better modern support is literally why Angular 2 exists.
The issue is (as was mentioned before) that without the file api
support doing this properly is unfeasible for the core given our
baseline being IE9 and polyfilling this stuff is out of the question
for core.
Additionally trying to handle this input in a way that is not
cross-browser compatible only makes it harder for 3rd party solutions,
which now have to fight/disable/workaround the core solution.
...
I'm going to close this just as we closed #1236. Angular 2 is being
build to support modern browsers and with that file support will
easily available.
Alternatively you could get the input and set the onchange function:
<input type="file" id="myFileInput" />
document.getElementById("myFileInput").onchange = function (event) {
console.log(event.target.files);
};
Try this,this is working for me in angular JS
let fileToUpload = `${documentLocation}/${documentType}.pdf`;
let absoluteFilePath = path.resolve(__dirname, fileToUpload);
console.log(`Uploading document ${absoluteFilePath}`);
element.all(by.css("input[type='file']")).sendKeys(absoluteFilePath);
$interval(function() {
var count = $scope.announcements.length;
for(var i=0;i<count;i++) {
if($scope.announcement == $scope.announcements[i].description) {
if(i==count-1) {
$scope.announcement = $scope.announcements[0].description;
if($scope.announcement.length >= 100) {
$scope.readmore = true;
$scope.short_ann = $scope.announcement.substr(0,85);
}
break;
} else {
$scope.announcement = $scope.announcements[i+1].description;
if($scope.announcement.length >= 100) {
$scope.readmore = true;
$scope.short_ann = $scope.announcement.substr(0,85);
}
break;
}
}
}
}, 5000);
The $scope.announcement is updated at every 5 seconds and i want a small animation while changing the ng-bind of this
Create a directive that watches for value changes on a property and performs the animation.
For example:
app.directive('flash', ['$animate',
function($animate) {
return {
link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
scope.$watch(attrs.flash, function(newValue, oldValue) {
if (newValue === oldValue) return;
$animate.addClass(element, 'flash').then(function() {
element.removeClass('flash');
});
});
}
};
}
]);
Usage:
<p flash="announcement" class="animated">{{announcement}}</p>
If you know you will use ng-bind instead an alternative usage is:
<p flash ng-bind="announcement" class="animated"></p>
With this second version you need to watch attrs.ngBind instead of attrs.flash:
scope.$watch(attrs.ngBind, ...
Note that this example uses ngAnimate and animate.css to perform the animation.
Demo: http://plnkr.co/edit/R0dWpE0VSscqE4mJ6462?p=preview
use ng-model to your p tag to show actual data, and ngAnimate or smth else...
<p ng-model="announcement">{{announcement}}</p>
https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/animations
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngAnimate
I want to load a state as a modal so that I can overlay a state without effecting any other states in my application. So for example if I have a link like:
<a ui-sref="notes.add" modal>Add Note</a>
I want to then interrupt the state change using a directive:
.directive('modal', ['$rootScope', '$state', '$http', '$compile',
function($rootScope, $state, $http, $compile){
return {
priority: 0,
restrict: 'A',
link: function(scope, el, attrs) {
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function (event, toState, toParams) {
event.preventDefault();
});
el.click(function(e){
$http
.get('URL HERE')
.then(function(resp){
$('<div class="modal">' + resp.data + '</div>').appendTo('[ui-view=app]');
setTimeout(function(){
$('.wrapper').addClass('showModal');
},1);
});
});
}
}
}
])
This successfully prevents the state change and loads the URL and appends it as a modal to the application. The problem is that it loads the entire application again...
How can I load just the state? e.g. the template files and the adjoining controller.
The state looks like:
.state('notes.add',
{
parent: 'notes',
url: '/add',
views: {
'content': {
templateUrl: 'partials/notes/add.html',
controller: 'NotesAddCtrl'
}
}
})
An example of how it should work using jQuery: http://dev.driz.co.uk/AngularModal
See how I can access StateA and StateB loading via AJAX that uses the History API to change the URL to reflect the current state change.
And regardless of whether I am on the index, StateA or StateB I can load StateA or StateB as a modal (even if I'm on that State already) and it doesn't change the url or the current content, it just overlays the state content.
This is what I want to be able to do in AngularJS.
Note. this example doesn't work with the browser back and forward buttons due to it being a quick example and not using the history api correctly.
I've seen your question a few days ago and it seemed interesting enough to try and set up something that would work.
I've taken the uiSref directive as a start, and modified the code to use angular-bootstrap's $modal to show the desired state.
angular.module('ui.router.modal', ['ui.router', 'ui.bootstrap'])
.directive('uiSrefModal', $StateRefModalDirective);
function parseStateRef(ref, current) {
var preparsed = ref.match(/^\s*({[^}]*})\s*$/), parsed;
if (preparsed) ref = current + '(' + preparsed[1] + ')';
parsed = ref.replace(/\n/g, " ").match(/^([^(]+?)\s*(\((.*)\))?$/);
if (!parsed || parsed.length !== 4) throw new Error("Invalid state ref '" + ref + "'");
return { state: parsed[1], paramExpr: parsed[3] || null };
}
function stateContext(el) {
var stateData = el.parent().inheritedData('$uiView');
if (stateData && stateData.state && stateData.state.name) {
return stateData.state;
}
}
$StateRefModalDirective.$inject = ['$state', '$timeout', '$modal'];
function $StateRefModalDirective($state, $timeout, $modal) {
var allowedOptions = ['location', 'inherit', 'reload'];
return {
restrict: 'A',
link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
var ref = parseStateRef(attrs.uiSrefModal, $state.current.name);
var params = null, url = null, base = stateContext(element) || $state.$current;
var newHref = null, isAnchor = element.prop("tagName") === "A";
var isForm = element[0].nodeName === "FORM";
var attr = isForm ? "action" : "href", nav = true;
var options = { relative: base, inherit: true };
var optionsOverride = scope.$eval(attrs.uiSrefModalOpts) || {};
angular.forEach(allowedOptions, function(option) {
if (option in optionsOverride) {
options[option] = optionsOverride[option];
}
});
var update = function(newVal) {
if (newVal) params = angular.copy(newVal);
if (!nav) return;
newHref = $state.href(ref.state, params, options);
if (newHref === null) {
nav = false;
return false;
}
attrs.$set(attr, newHref);
};
if (ref.paramExpr) {
scope.$watch(ref.paramExpr, function(newVal, oldVal) {
if (newVal !== params) update(newVal);
}, true);
params = angular.copy(scope.$eval(ref.paramExpr));
}
update();
if (isForm) return;
element.bind("click", function(e) {
var button = e.which || e.button;
if ( !(button > 1 || e.ctrlKey || e.metaKey || e.shiftKey || element.attr('target')) ) {
e.preventDefault();
var state = $state.get(ref.state);
var modalInstance = $modal.open({
template: '<div>\
<div class="modal-header">\
<h3 class="modal-title">' + ref.state + '</h3>\
</div>\
<div class="modal-body">\
<ng-include src="\'' + state.templateUrl + '\'"></ng-include>\
</div>\
</div>',
controller: state.controller,
resolve: options.resolve
});
modalInstance.result.then(function (selectedItem) {
$scope.selected = selectedItem;
}, function () {
console.log('Modal dismissed at: ' + new Date());
});
}
});
}
};
}
You can use it like this <a ui-sref-modal="notes.add">Add Note</a>
Directive requires the angular-bootstrap to resolve the modal dialog. You will need to require the ui.router.modal module in your app.
Since asked to provide an example for my comment,
Example Directive
myapp.directive('openModal', function ($modal) {
return function(scope, element, attrs) {
element[0].addEventListener('click', function() {
$modal.open({
templateUrl : attrs.openModal,
controller: attrs.controller,
size: attrs.openModalSize,
//scope: angular.element(element[0]).scope()
});
});
};
});
Example Html
<button
open-modal='views/poc/open-modal/small-modal.html'
open-modal-size='sm'
controller="MyCtrl">modal small</button>
The above directive approach is not very different from using a state, which has templateUrl and controller except that url does not change.
.state('state1.list', {
url: "/list",
templateUrl: "partials/state1.list.html",
controller: function($scope) {
$scope.items = ["A", "List", "Of", "Items"];
}
})
Apparently there is the issue Ui-sref not generating hash in URL (Angular 1.3.0-rc.3) refering to
https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/issues/1397
It is seems to be fixed as per comments.
I personally dislike html5mode because it requires extra work on your server for no apparent advantage (I don't regard having "more beautiful url" as tangible advantage to justify the extra work).
There is another performance problem when using routers, that the view DOM is re-created upon each route change. I mentioned a very simple solution
in this answer.
As a side remark, the example in http://dev.driz.co.uk/AngularModal/ does not behave quite well. It does not record history, so I can't go back. Further, if you click on links like Index or modals, and then reload, you don't get the same page.
UPDATE.
It seems from the comments that a route change is not wanted when opening the modal. In that case the easiest solution is not to put ui-sref on the opening button and let the modal directive along handle it.
My directive has
link: function ($scope, $elm, $attrs) {
var status = $scope.item.status
if (status) {
var statusName = status.name,
item = $scope.item;
if (statusName === 'USED') {
$attrs.$set('ng-disabled', true); // this doesn't work
} else {
$elm.attr('ng-disabled', false);
}
}
}
So, my question is:
How to apply ng-disabled to element with this directive?
if (statusName === 'USED') {
$attrs.$set('disabled', 'disabled');
} else {
$elm.removeAttr('disabled');
}
Why invoke ng-disable at all? You're already once evaluating the condition yourself, so having ng-disable evaluating it again is redundant.
You would set ng-disabled to a scope variable, ex:
<input ng-disabled="isDisabled" />
And then inside your directive you can set that variable:
$scope.isDisabled = true;
//html
<div ng-app="miniapp" ng-controller="MainCtrl">
<input type="submit" mydir>
</div>
//js
'use strict';
var app = angular.module('miniapp', []);
app.directive('mydir', function ($compile) {
return {
priority:1001, // compiles first
terminal:true, // prevent lower priority directives to compile after it
compile: function(el) {
el.removeAttr('mydir'); // necessary to avoid infinite compile loop
return function(scope){
var status = scope.item.status
if (status === 'USED') {
el.attr('ng-disabled',true);
} else {
el.attr('ng-disabled',false);
}
var fn = $compile(el);
fn(scope);
};
}
};
});
app.controller('MainCtrl', function ($scope) {
$scope.item = {};
$scope.item.status = 'USED';
});
credit to Ilan Frumer
I'm trying to write an AngularJS directive in which I replace the element with my specified HTML tags, then attach a keypress handler that calls a function on the directive's controller. Unfortunately that is not working for me. First off, here's the code I'm working with:
.directive('amsNewEntry', function() {
return {
restrict: 'E',
replace: true,
scope: {
url: '#navigateTo'
},
compile: function (tElement, tAttrs) {
var text = tAttrs.text;
var html = '<div>'
+ ' ' + text + ''
+ ' <input data-ng-show="isInputFieldVisible" type="text" data-ng-model="inputValue" />'
+ '</div>';
tElement.replaceWith(html);
return {
post: function (scope, element, attrs) {
console.log(element);
console.log(scope);
var input = $(element).find('input');
if (input.length > 0) {
console.log('attaching handler');
input.keypress(function (e) {
alert('keypress');
var code = e.which || e.keyCode;
if (code === 13) {
alert('clicked enter');
scope.navigate();
}
});
}
}
}
},
controller: function ($scope, $location) {
$scope.isInputFieldVisible = false;
$scope.url = null;
$scope.showInput = function () {
$scope.isInputFieldVisible = true;
}
$scope.inputValue = '';
$scope.navigate = function () {
var target = $scope.url + '/' + $scope.inputValue;
console.log(target);
$location.path(target);
}
}
The thing is, in the post-linking function returned from the compile function, when I console out the element variable, it is still not being compiled to the HTML I specified. Shouldn't the tElement.replaceWith(html) line do that?
And one last thing, the input field renders visible on the screen although I'm using the ng-show directive and binding it to the isInputFieldVisible property which is initialized to false. Any ideas why this is not working?