There is the code https://jsfiddle.net/bfzmm1hc/1 Everything looks fine but I want to delete some of the files from the set.
I have already found these:
I know that FileList object is readonly, so I can just copy the files to a new array. But what should I do with this new array of File objects? I can't assign it to the files property...
I found a workaround. This will not require AJAX for the request at all and the form can be sent to the server. Basically you could create an hidden or text input and set it's value attribute to the base64 string created after processing the file selected.
<input type=hidden value=${base64string} />
You will probably consider the idea to create multiple input file instead of input text or hidden. This will not work as we can't assign a value to it.
This method will include the input file in the data sent to the database and to ignore the input file you could:
disabled attribute to the input file before serialising the form;When you want to delete a file just get the index of the element and remove the input element (text or hidden) from the DOM.
Requirements:
change event. Pros:
Since you cannot edit the Read Only input.files attribute, you must upload a form using XMLHttpRequest and send a FormData object. I will also show you how to use URL.createObjectURL to more easily get a URI from the File object:
var SomeCl = {
count: 0,
init: function() {
$('#images').change(this.onInputChange);
},
onInputChange: function() {
// reset preview
$('.container').empty();
// reset count
SomeCl.count = 0;
// process files
SomeCl.processFiles(this.files, function(files) {
// filtered files
console.log(files);
// uncomment this line to upload the filtered files
SomeCl.upload('url', 'POST', $('#upload').get(0), files, 'images[]');
});
},
processFiles: function(files, callback) {
// your filter logic goes here, this is just example
// filtered files
var upload = [];
// limit to first 4 image files
Array.prototype.forEach.call(files, function(file) {
if (file.type.slice(0, 5) === 'image' && upload.length < 4) {
// add file to filter
upload.push(file);
// increment count
SomeCl.count++;
// show preview
SomeCl.preview(file);
}
});
callback(upload);
},
upload: function(method, url, form, files, filename) {
// create a FormData object from the form
var fd = new FormData(form);
// delete the files in the <form> from the FormData
fd.delete(filename);
// add the filtered files instead
fd.append(filename, files);
// demonstrate that the entire form has been attached
for (var key of fd.keys()) {
console.log(key, fd.getAll(key));
}
// use xhr request
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open(method, url, true);
xhr.addEventListener('progress', function(e) {
console.log('lengthComputable', e.lengthComputable);
console.log(e.loaded + '/' + e.total);
});
xhr.addEventListener('load', function(e) {
console.log('uploaded');
});
xhr.addEventListener('error', function(e) {
console.log('this is just a demo');
});
xhr.send(fd);
},
preview: function(file) {
// create a temporary URI from the File
var url = URL.createObjectURL(file);
// append a preview
$('.container').append($('<img/>').attr('src', url));
}
};
SomeCl.init();.container img {
max-width: 250px;
max-height: 250px;
}<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="upload">
<input name="other" type="hidden" value="something else">
<input name="images[]" id="images" multiple="multiple" type="file">
<div class="container"></div>
</form>
input, upload the files?