Best practice for file upload

[moskrc]

Best practice for file upload

[powmedia]

You could override the Text editor and just change the 'type', however actually handling the contents of the fil upload are outside the scope of backbone forms for now. I'll be working with files soon so will add a File editor to the official release at some point

[astjohn]

This might provide a temporary workaround:
http://cmlenz.github.com/jquery-iframe-transport/

[philfreo]

I recently created a bbf editor that integrates filepicker.io (or just direct to S3) for uploading files. Here's my code -- surely will have to be adapted for your case. In my case I wanted the user to be able to upload multiple files, see the list, and remove items from the list.

https://gist.github.com/3877309

getValue() in the editor returns a JS array of the file details provided

[hunt3r]

I am implementing a file upload plugin to wrap the JQuery upload project in an editor for a project I'm working on.
https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload

Is this something that would be accepted as an optional add on?

[erikcw]

@hunt3r At the very least it would be nice to have the editor gist added to the wiki. I know there has been some talk about a contrib repo, but I don't think it is ready yet. https://github.com/powmedia/backbone-forms/wiki/Custom-Editors

[jakubwolny]

@hunt3r Have you finished this implementation? I have done some research and blueimp's uploader is indeed the best solution.

[reustle]

@powmedia Can we close some of these stale issues?

[gadikotamohan]

@powmedia @moskrc Alternatively we add type Image to Backbone.Form.editors and restrict its content to image/* and read file as data-url without introducing any dependencies on other libraries and their bells and whistles. Like https://gist.github.com/gadikotamohan/c732a5148cddde3b00a08858273e8c35