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will
will

Reputation: 1407

GWT - Client-Side File Uploads

I have been messing around with GWT uploads lately. I want to have the ability to upload an XML file from the client, and get the contents of that file (display the contents in a TextArea).

From what I have found on the net, it seems I would have to upload the file to the server, and then get the contents of the file. I do not particularly like the idea of allowing file uploads to the server (even if they are only XML). Is there anyway to pull the contents of a file that the client specifies without sending it to the server?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1056

Answers (2)

Thomas Broyer
Thomas Broyer

Reputation: 64561

Recent (decent?) browsers implement the "HTML5" File API that's quite easy to use in GWT using JSNI.
See also: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_files_from_web_applications

Upvotes: 3

maneesh
maneesh

Reputation: 1701

Because of security restrictions you cannot access the file on the client side alone. It has to be sent to the server for processing.

Upvotes: 0

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