File Access

As of version 2.0, FileAccess can break a file into chunks. Smaller chunks may speed uploads or help parallelize certain operations.

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<html>
  <head><title>Files Chunks</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>
<div id="dropTitle">loading...</div>
<br>
<div id="lastDropSummary"></div>
<textarea rows="20" cols="80" id="lastDropContents"></textarea> 

<script src="http://bp.yahooapis.com/2.9.9/browserplus-min.js"></script>  
<script type="text/javascript">
function setDropAreaTitle(txt) {
  var div = document.getElementById("dropTitle");
  while (div.firstChild) {div.removeChild(div.firstChild);}
  div.appendChild(document.createTextNode(txt));
}

function hovering(hoverOn) {
  if (hoverOn) {setDropAreaTitle("drop it!");}
  else {setDropAreaTitle("drag a large file to the box below.");}
} 

function dropped(arg) {
  var textArea = document.getElementById("lastDropContents");

  var title = document.createElement("b");
  title.innerHTML = "Last drop Contents (" + arg[0].name + " - " + 
    arg[0].size + " bytes - " + arg[0].mimeType + ")<p>";
 
  // set summary text
  lds = document.getElementById("lastDropSummary");
  while (lds.firstChild) lds.removeChild(lds.firstChild);
  lds.appendChild(title);
  textArea.value = "reading...";

  BrowserPlus.FileAccess.chunk({ file: arg[0], chunkSize:65536 },
	function (rez) {
	  var contents = "", files, i, len, str;
	  if (rez.success) {
          files = rez.value;
          for (i = 0, len=files.length; i < len; i++) {
            contents += "File[" + i + "/" + len + "] = " + files[i].name + " (size=" + files[i].size + ")\n";
          }
	  } else {
		  contents = rez.error + ": " + rez.verboseError;
	  }      
	  textArea.value = contents;
	});
}

BrowserPlus.init(function(res) {
  if (res.success) {
   BrowserPlus.require({
      services: [
		{service: 'DragAndDrop', version: "1"},
		{service: 'FileAccess', version: "2", minversion:"2.0.1"}
	  ]},
      function(res) {
        if (res.success) {
          var dnd = BrowserPlus.DragAndDrop;
          dnd.AddDropTarget(
            {id: "lastDropContents"},
            function(res) {
              dnd.AttachCallbacks({
                id: "lastDropContents",
                hover: hovering,
                drop: dropped
              },
              function(){});  
            setDropAreaTitle("drag something to the box below.");
          });
        } else {
          alert("Error Loading DragAndDrop: " + res.error);
        }
      });
  } else {
    alert("Failed to initialize BrowserPlus: " + res.error);
  }
}); 
</script> 
</body>
</html>
Run Example

This example demonstrates how to break up a larger file into chunks. By default, 2MB chunks are created, but for the purpose of this demo, the chunk size is 64KB.