newb question: reading files in client

[David Gladstein]

Hello. I'm thinking of porting a little app to haste. It needs to read an image file, and I want to avoid having a server.

Has anyone managed to read a file client-side in Haste?

[Anton Ekblad]

The browser in general does not allow this without user intervention, since that would essentially enable any website to peek at any file on your system - a huge security breach. If you're OK with having the user manually specify the file(s) you want to access, you can use an HTML file element and getFileData[1], but it sounds like this would not really work for your use case. Another thing you might want to consider is using haste-standalone[2], which gives you client-server functionality in a single executable. Note that there are big changes[3] in the pipeline for Haste.App, including haste-standalone, so upgrading from 0.5 to 0.6 in the future might require some porting, if you choose to go this route.

[1] http://haste-lang.org/docs/haddock/0.5.5/Haste-DOM.html#v:getFileData

[2] http://haste-lang.org/blog/haste-standalone/

[3] https://github.com/valderman/haste-app

/Anton

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:20 PM, David Gladstein <glad...@gladstein.com> wrote:

Hello. I'm thinking of porting a little app to haste. It needs to read an image file, and I want to avoid having a server.

Has anyone managed to read a file client-side in Haste?

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