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Nov 12 16:33:58 <GodGinrai> hey guys, how do I send a FormData object using enyo.Ajax?
Nov 12 16:35:56 <summatus1entis> what's the structure of a FormData object? does it get passed as a parameter?
Nov 12 16:39:56 <summatusmentis> I've never really used a FormData object, but I think you can set the contentType parameter when you create a new enyo.Ajax object, and then you can pass your FormData object as an argument to enyo.Ajax.go();
Nov 12 16:44:08 <GodGinrai> you would normally use: xhr.send(formdata_object)
Nov 12 16:47:28 <summatusmentis> so, a quick google shows there was a bug with it, but it's been fixed, and the test cases there do something like
Nov 12 16:48:08 <summatusmentis> new enyo.Ajax({method: "POST", postBody: new FormData(), url: my.url.com});
Nov 12 16:48:20 <summatusmentis> call the go() method
Nov 12 16:50:06 <summatusmentis> check out https://github.com/enyojs/enyo/commit/8b58edad97e091d8a15155f87b864a64fb81c722 on line 81, in the 3rd file
Nov 12 17:01:09 <GodGinrai> ok, thanks :)
Nov 12 18:36:07 <GodGinrai> hey summatusmentis, your suggestion looks like it is working, but PHP is not seeing it in the $_FILES array. :(
Nov 12 18:37:11 <summatusmentis> what're the headers being sent? specifically, what's the contentType?
Nov 12 18:48:56 <GodGinrai> octet stream
Nov 12 18:52:06 <summatusmentis> it's supposed to be "multipart/form-data" right?
Nov 12 18:54:14 <summatusmentis> also, we're reaching the end of my knowledge on this issue, my guess is that the server-side is mis-interpreting what's coming in, which is why it's not being put into $_FILES
Nov 12 18:54:45 <summatusmentis> I would double check that your request is doing the right thing (that is, the body and headers are correct)
Nov 12 18:55:07 <summatusmentis> maybe watch the request that a browser would send when the form is populated that way, and compare?
Nov 12 18:59:19 <GodGinrai> I did watch the request
Nov 12 18:59:32 <GodGinrai> that's how I know PHP is seeing the request
Nov 12 18:59:43 <GodGinrai> but not recognizing it as a file
Nov 12 18:59:58 <summatusmentis> interesting, what if you set contentType: "multipart/form-data" in the Ajax call?
Nov 12 19:00:03 <GodGinrai> how would I set it to multipart/form-data?
Nov 12 19:00:30 <summatusmentis> new enyo.Ajax({method: "POST", postBody: new FormData(), url: my.url.com, contentType: "multipart/form-data"});
Nov 12 19:00:35 <GodGinrai> doesn't content-type change how I perceive what I receive?
Nov 12 19:01:06 <summatusmentis> I think it affects how the server perceives what you send when put in the request headers
Nov 12 19:01:19 <GodGinrai> ah
Nov 12 19:01:20 <summatusmentis> the response headers may also have a content-type, which will change how you perceive what you receive
Nov 12 19:01:55 <summatusmentis> my understanding is that it's a given network-node's identification of what is being sent
Nov 12 19:02:40 <summatusmentis> what types of responses do you get form the server when you post to it?
Nov 12 19:02:47 <summatusmentis> are you getting error codes at all?
Nov 12 19:02:58 <GodGinrai> still sends it as octet stream
Nov 12 19:03:29 <GodGinrai> the only errors PHP is giving me is that I'm trying to go to an unknown index in the $_FILES array
Nov 12 19:03:44 <GodGinrai> and that's because it doesn't realize it's getting a file
Nov 12 19:04:39 <summatusmentis> can you pastebin your code? Are you creating the FormData object correctly?
Nov 12 19:05:06 <summatusmentis> you also have the mimeType parameter that you can pass to the Ajax, which might help
Nov 12 19:05:31 <summatusmentis> or put it in jsfiddle
Nov 12 19:06:05 <GodGinrai> I'm just using new FormData() and appending to it
Nov 12 19:06:08 <GodGinrai> then sending
Nov 12 19:06:14 <GodGinrai> not very complicated
Nov 12 19:06:16 <summatusmentis> yeah, ok, that sounds right
Nov 12 19:06:38 <GodGinrai> the file is posting fine, PHP just isn't seeing it as a file
Nov 12 19:06:49 <GodGinrai> it even shows up in PHP's raw post data
Nov 12 19:07:05 <summatusmentis> hrm
Nov 12 19:07:33 <summatusmentis> then my guess is you're missing something crucial in the construction of the request, but I can't tell you what
Nov 12 19:15:33 <GodGinrai> I found one guy that says $_FILES doesn't populate for xhr requests, and everyone else acts like it does
Nov 12 19:15:43 <GodGinrai> this is really frustrating
Nov 12 19:19:56 <summatusmentis> some searching indicates that javascript shouldn't have access to the file contents, which may be why $_FILES isn't populating
Nov 12 19:20:41 <summatusmentis> which seems odd to me, but it's pretty consisten
Nov 12 19:20:44 <summatusmentis> consistent*
Nov 12 19:21:47 <summatusmentis> although, there's a way to do it w/ HTML5?
Nov 12 19:22:17 <summatusmentis> is this a mobile app? Are you using PhoneGap?
Nov 12 19:22:20 <GodGinrai> $_FILES is PHP
Nov 12 19:22:24 <GodGinrai> not JS
Nov 12 19:22:55 <GodGinrai> also, can't do anything w/ HTML5 because corporations suck and love to use IE
Nov 12 19:22:58 <summatusmentis> right, I know
Nov 12 19:23:05 <summatusmentis> ok
Nov 12 19:23:33 <summatusmentis> but if the JS can't upload the contents of the file, the php server-side may not be recognizing that it's a file
Nov 12 19:23:48 <summatusmentis> are the sizes of the requests being sent the same size as the file + a little bit extra?
Nov 12 19:25:07 <GodGinrai> the JS is sending the file, tho
Nov 12 19:25:17 <GodGinrai> PHP sees it in the RAW post data
Nov 12 19:25:48 <summatusmentis> ok, odd
Nov 12 19:25:58 <summatusmentis> can you jsfiddle your enyo code?
Nov 12 19:27:44 <GodGinrai> just a sec, I see the wrong content-type in the request header in firebug.
Nov 12 19:28:20 <summatusmentis> yeah, I think that's why
Nov 12 19:29:22 <GodGinrai> well, I tried your contentType suggestion before and that didn't work
Nov 12 19:29:38 <GodGinrai> but I didn't check if it actually changed anything in the header
Nov 12 19:31:09 <GodGinrai> I changed the contentType and still get the same errors
Nov 12 19:32:20 <summatusmentis> can you put your code someplace? I think I'm visualizing this properly, but I just want to see for sure
Nov 12 19:33:29 <GodGinrai> http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1937402
Nov 12 19:34:27 <GodGinrai> ignore the name, it's a bond reference :P
Nov 12 19:35:48 <summatusmentis> is populate getting called?
Nov 12 19:36:50 <GodGinrai> it don't remember.  But it worked back when I was just posting the info from the textarea instead of trying to do a file upload
Nov 12 19:37:18 <summatusmentis> I wonder if you should be creating and populating the FormData object prior to setting the postBody of the WebService
Nov 12 19:37:39 <GodGinrai> that wouldn't make any difference
Nov 12 19:37:50 <GodGinrai> we know the file gets added to the post body
Nov 12 19:37:56 <summatusmentis> hrm, ok
Nov 12 19:38:05 <summatusmentis> why do you have handleAs json?
Nov 12 19:38:29 <summatusmentis> it's probably not affecting anything, but I figured I'd ask
Nov 12 19:38:44 <GodGinrai> because my PHP script will take that file, run a validator written in awk on it, and return the output in json
Nov 12 19:39:29 <summatusmentis> so, if you could verify that your populate() handler is running, that'll help
Nov 12 19:39:56 <summatusmentis> and you could then log inEvent.xhr and see what the response code is (make sure it's returning 200)
Nov 12 19:40:14 <GodGinrai> It's returning 200
Nov 12 19:40:25 <GodGinrai> but my response has PHP errors in it
Nov 12 19:40:32 <GodGinrai> because PHP doesn't see the file
Nov 12 19:42:07 <summatusmentis> and if you remove the contentType portion of the WebService, does that change behavior at all?
Nov 12 19:44:36 <GodGinrai> same error, but the contentType of the request becomes x-www-...
Nov 12 19:44:42 <summatusmentis> also, it shouldn't matter I don't think, but convention is that the method should be uppercase
Nov 12 19:45:01 <GodGinrai> o,o
Nov 12 19:45:05 <summatusmentis> yeah, contentType defaults to x-www-urlencoding (or whatever)
Nov 12 19:45:17 <GodGinrai> that's not the convention in the documentation
Nov 12 19:45:27 <summatusmentis> http://enyojs.com/api/#enyo.AjaxProperties
Nov 12 19:45:31 <GodGinrai> also, only classes should be uppercase in OOP
Nov 12 19:45:31 <summatusmentis> yeah, method: "POST"
Nov 12 19:45:42 <GodGinrai> oh, THAT method
Nov 12 19:45:44 <GodGinrai> XD
Nov 12 19:45:49 <summatusmentis> yes, sorry, not the function name
Nov 12 19:46:08 <GodGinrai> that doesn't matter, my posts have been working fine w/ lowercase
Nov 12 19:46:27 <summatusmentis> yeah, it shouldn't matter
Nov 12 19:46:43 <GodGinrai> This was working code until I tried to make it do a file upload instead of posted text
Nov 12 19:46:44 <summatusmentis> what's the mime-type of the file?
Nov 12 19:46:56 <GodGinrai> it's just plaintext
Nov 12 19:47:00 <summatusmentis> there's likely just one thing that isn't clicking
Nov 12 19:47:16 <summatusmentis> fxspec06: d'you know anything about posting FormData objects to a PHP server?
Nov 12 19:51:06 <GodGinrai> I think he's just idle
Nov 12 19:51:14 <summatusmentis> probably
Nov 12 19:51:17 <summatusmentis> hrm, I'm out of ideas
Nov 12 19:51:36 <summatusmentis> when I get to this stage, I usually just start fiddling with it, and reading headers/googling
Nov 12 19:52:55 <GodGinrai> lol, I've been doing that this whole time XD
Nov 12 19:55:55 <summatusmentis> there's something simple that you're gonna feel stupid about when you figure it out
Nov 12 19:56:09 <GodGinrai> ikr?
Nov 12 19:59:02 <summatusmentis> it looks reasonable to me, sorry I can't be of more help
Nov 12 19:59:13 <summatusmentis> I don't use FormData() objects
Nov 12 20:02:14 <GodGinrai> s'ok
Nov 12 20:03:17 <summatusmentis> what version of enyo are you using?
Nov 12 20:03:37 <summatusmentis> that bug I linked you to earlier? just got merged into master 4 days ago
Nov 12 20:04:01 <summatusmentis> so, unless you've pulled from github recently, you won't have the fix
Nov 12 20:05:26 <summatusmentis> I bet that's the issue
Nov 12 20:05:38 <GodGinrai> I grabbed the latest master after you told me that
Nov 12 20:05:45 <GodGinrai> and have been using that all day
Nov 12 20:05:49 <summatusmentis> oh
Nov 12 20:05:53 <summatusmentis> then nevermind
Nov 12 20:06:00 <summatusmentis> I didn't notice the timeframe on that bug earlier
Nov 12 20:46:08 <GodGinrai> so I think the problem may be caused w/ how the Enyo XHR wrappers work -_-
Nov 12 20:57:45 <GodGinrai> this is really frustrating
Nov 12 21:37:03 <summatusmentis> what specifically do you think is wrong?
Nov 12 21:50:33 <GodGinrai> summatusmentis: It seems there is a problem with trying to set the headers with xhr for uploading files
Nov 12 21:50:50 <GodGinrai> if you don't set a header, then it autosets the correct one
Nov 12 21:51:21 <GodGinrai> but this won't work w/ enyo's XHR wrappers, because they have a default content-type
Nov 12 21:51:27 <GodGinrai> etc.
Nov 12 21:51:36 <summatusmentis> huh, interesting
Nov 12 21:52:47 <GodGinrai> yea :(
Nov 12 21:53:19 <GodGinrai> if the wrappers allowed you to build and pass your own XHR object, it would probably work
Nov 12 21:55:00 <summatusmentis> that's what the xhrFields parameter does
Nov 12 21:55:02 <summatusmentis> I think
Nov 12 21:57:33 <GodGinrai> nah, that's for "extra parameters"
Nov 12 21:58:33 <summatusmentis> are you sure it doesn't overwrite defaults also?
Nov 12 22:33:05 <GodGinrai> summatusmentis: extra tends to mean extra
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