I actually have a file input and I would like to retrieve the Base64 data of the file.
I tried:
$('input#myInput')[0].files[0]
to retrieve the data. But it only provides the name, the length, the content type but not the data itself.
I actually need these data to send them to Amazon S3
I already test the API and when I send the data through html form with encode type "multipart/form-data" it works.
I use this plugin : http://jasny.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#fileupload
And this plugins gives me a preview of the picture and I retrieve data in the src attribute of the image preview. But when I send these data to S3 it does not work. I maybe need to encode the data like "multipart/form-data" but I don't know why.
Is there a way to retrieve these data without using an html form?
You can try the FileReader API. Do something like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function handleFileSelect()
{
if (!window.File || !window.FileReader || !window.FileList || !window.Blob) {
alert('The File APIs are not fully supported in this browser.');
return;
}
var input = document.getElementById('fileinput');
if (!input) {
alert("Um, couldn't find the fileinput element.");
}
else if (!input.files) {
alert("This browser doesn't seem to support the `files` property of file inputs.");
}
else if (!input.files[0]) {
alert("Please select a file before clicking 'Load'");
}
else {
var file = input.files[0];
var fr = new FileReader();
fr.onload = receivedText;
//fr.readAsText(file);
//fr.readAsBinaryString(file); //as bit work with base64 for example upload to server
fr.readAsDataURL(file);
}
}
function receivedText() {
document.getElementById('editor').appendChild(document.createTextNode(fr.result));
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="file" id="fileinput"/>
<input type='button' id='btnLoad' value='Load' onclick='handleFileSelect();' />
<div id="editor"></div>
</body>
</html>