How will the directory structure and all the files therein be represented in the form submission?
-Sam On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:17 PM, John Gregg <john...@google.com> wrote: > Hi WebKit, > > I recently proposed adding directory upload support to HTML via a new > <input> attribute to whatwg@, and the discussion arrived at "try it out". > Having written some code I think I have something that works pretty well, > and I'd like to land it on an experimental basis in WebKit, but want to > reach out early before trying to put any code in the tree. The plan that > comes to mind is a new ENABLE_DIRECTORY_UPLOAD flag, but I'm completely open > to other options. > > Background (cf. the whatwg thread > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-April/025764.html > ): > - The use case for this is a photo album or file manager web application, > which wants the user to easily choose an entire directory to recursively > upload, while preserving the sub-directory structure. > - The reason for the new attribute is to signal the UA to show a native > folder-picker rather than a file-picker, which on most OSs are two distinct > dialogs. > > The approach I'm using has 2 parts and is a small amount of WebCore code > (about 200 lines). > - Extend HTMLInputElement to support the directory attribute, which is > passed up via FileChooser allowing the UA to display a folder-picker. UA > enumerates all the files and returns them in the normal way. > - Extend File to have a File.path property, which contains the path > information starting from the chosen directory as the root. > HTMLInputElement is responsible for generating these values from the list > of files when the directory attribute is set. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > -John > > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
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