Daniel did you ever make progress on this? Simon On Monday, 7 December 2015 20:47:32 UTC+1, Daniel Bachler wrote: > > Hi, > > Simon and I extended his Filereader library ( > https://github.com/simonh1000/file-reader ) over the last few days to > read binary files as well as text files. There are now 3 methods: > readAsText, readAsArrayBuffer and readAsDataURL. One of the examples makes > use of a Dropzone where you can drop images, then readAsDataURL is used to > read an image as a dataURL (=base64 encoded) and assign that to an img src > tag. The roundtripping of values from the event is done with a decoder that > decodes the files as a Json.Values and uses that to pass it into one of the > readAs* functions. > > But as Simon wrote in this ticket > https://github.com/simonh1000/file-reader/issues/12 , the most > interesting use case for readAsArrayBuffer would be to upload straight > binary file - and this doesn't work right now because Elm.http lacks > support for Blob/File ( > https://github.com/evancz/elm-http/blob/3.0.0/src/Blob.elm is just a > stub). > > I don't know that much about Elm yet, so I want to ask more knowledgeable > people here: what would it take to implement a Blob/File Api for Elm.http? > Is it mostly about providing type definitions and handling the > corresponding cases in Json.Decode/Json.Encode? If that is all I would see > if I can come up with a solution and send a PR, but I'd like to know how > deep the water might be before I get started with something like this :) > > Also, Elm.http does not have a Contributing file, is there a general one > for big important Elm libraries? > > Daniel >
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