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Subject: Re: [Moo] xhr.responseType="arraybuffer"
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This sounds like it'd be something that could reasonably be exposed as 
an option on the Request class, so my recommendation would be to alter 
that class and send a pull request. No guarantee that it'll be accepted, 
of course, but this is certainly the way that I'd want to interact with 
this in MooTools. It's a pretty fundamental operation on XHR, to be 
honest, so I think it's worthwhile.

On 07/10/12 17:22, Lee Goddard wrote:
> I'm making XHR requets with reponseType set to 'arraybuffer', so that 
> I can receive binary data to pass to a Web Audio API audio context's 
> decodeAudioData() method.
>
> As far as I know, this cannot be done with MooTools as it stands, 
> because although I could sub-class Request and adjust the 
> onStateChange() and success(), access is required to the private XHR 
> so that the responseType can be set after the requested is open()ed.
>
> Over-riding the send() method seems like a bad idea, as I'd have to 
> keep it updated with any change made to the core.
>
> The only solution I can see is to expose the currently-private xhr 
> object, but I guess it is private for a reason.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions, please?
>
> TIA
> Lee


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