Uploading from the Clipboard using STRG+V

[Stefan Haslinger]

Hi folks,

• A customer wants to have a quick way to upload files in a rail time consulting situation. He captures images with a screen capture utility and wanted to upload them as quick as possible.
  
• In Hobo you achieve that with an extra JS-Library called Fineuploader. It provides upload using drag and drop and pasting.
  
• This is not Hobo only, but my approach (mis?)uses a lot Hobo features. All Code can be found in the Gist.
  
• Be aware, the library provided is GPLv3'ed, but you could buy a commercial License at Widen's site. (I'm not affiliated with them in any way).
  
• You can always compile the latest version of the library yourself, if you have some knowledge of NPM and Grunt, I leaned it in an hour.
  
• Fineuploader, does not now about Rails, so I taught it about CSRF in conversation.dryml 20-22 and 35-37, otherwise my requests would not be authenficated.
  
• You can name any HTML Element as a paste target using it's id (line 33).
  
• I want the sales agent to provide a file name, so I prompt for it (line 34).
• It calls a Hobo transition (this gives me authorization Hobo style), but via POST, so I need an extra route.
  
• The params provided are not Paperclip style, so I help a little bit with the file name (btw. the same approach is useful, if you upload from the file system in a rake task).
  
• Fineuploader wants a Json response (conversations_controller line 16) to be able to give a success message after upload.
  
• Some things can be improved easily, like using the assets pipeline or error handling, but I'm lazy here and just wanted to share the principles :-)
  

Bye,

Stefan

[Stefan Haslinger]

I forgot: works in Firefox and Chrome on Linux and Win, but not on IE in Win.

Ciao,

Stefan

[Ignacio Huerta]

Nice work, thanks for sharing. I think I'll give it a try soon :).

Warm regards,
Ignacio

El 30/01/14 14:24, Stefan Haslinger escribió:

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[Albert Chou]

Not to belittle the work you've done, but https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload is MIT licensed.  Of course, it depends on jQuery, whereas Fine Uploader does not have any dependencies, according to its Web site.  I just thought it was worth mentioning there's an alternative.

Al

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[Stefan Haslinger]

Hi Al! 

Your input is very welcome!

More choice is always good and GPL can be a show stopper, for sure.

I compiled the JQuery version as we have it in Hobo at our fingertips anyway ... 

I actually looked into jQuery File Upload yesterday, the main reason I went away was that I thought it lacked paste support from the clipboard. 

Looked into it again, it is actually mentioned on the Options Page. So it seems to be a full replacement. You are using it?

Ciao,

Stefan

2014-01-30 Albert Chou <hotfus...@gmail.com>:

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[Stefan Haslinger]

Hi Al!

Meanwhile, I prefer Jquery-File-Upload as well. It has lot's of advantages, maybe only advantages ;-)

- controller integration is seemless into Hobo
- form integration is seemless

- multi file upload is seemless (no controller modification needed, several requests are generated by the library automatically)

- copy& paste to the full page is seemless

(- the only thing not working for me is pasting, but that could be caused by my window manager from Ubuntu mate).

So thanks for you pointer!

Ciao,

Stefan