I want to organize the workflow only through the REST API. I have a form that allows to upload image (enctype="multipart/form-data"). How do I handle this form via backbone? Help me please, how I can to serialize it into JSON with a file field.
Thanks. Vitaliy
If you are using HTML5, you can use the readAsDataURL method from the file api to read and store it on your models.
Here's the code i use to read and store.
var Image = Backbone.Model.extend({
readFile: function(file) {
var reader = new FileReader();
// closure to capture the file information.
reader.onload = (function(theFile,that) {
return function(e) {
//set model
that.set({filename: theFile.name, data: e.target.result});
};
})(file,this);
// Read in the image file as a data URL.
reader.readAsDataURL(file);
}
});