24586 2014-02-08 00:20:47 +0000 Remove FileList 2015-10-19 15:47:52 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG File API unspecified PC All NEW P2 normal --- 23682 17125 1 jonas arun costan jan.varga public-webapps public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 100075 0 jonas 2014-02-08 00:20:47 +0000 Bug 23682 seems to be solving the issue of how to return a JS-array of Foo objects rather than having to introduce new FooList types. This means that we can remove FileList. This should be a backwards compatible change spec-wise. Some implementations supports the syntax myfilelist.item(5) which would be lost in this change. But given that no one has asked for the .item function to be brought back, hopefully this should be fine. 100107 1 jan.varga 2014-02-10 09:46:27 +0000 So we don't have to fix IDB implementation to support it :) 100166 2 arun 2014-02-10 15:49:31 +0000 OK, but what is the best strategy for feature requests? For example, Bug 17125 calls for a .drop(itemNumber) method to be added. Without a custom interface, what can we extend or work with? 100177 3 jonas 2014-02-10 17:10:44 +0000 That's the beauty. If we use the proposed solution in bug 23682 and use Arrays rather than FileList, then we leverage the existing feature set of Arrays. I.e. things like FileList.drop(whatever) isn't needed since Arrays already have that functionality. 100183 4 arun 2014-02-10 17:55:10 +0000 (In reply to Jonas Sicking from comment #3) > That's the beauty. If we use the proposed solution in bug 23682 and use > Arrays rather than FileList, then we leverage the existing feature set of > Arrays. I.e. things like FileList.drop(whatever) isn't needed since Arrays > already have that functionality. I guess in the case of something like FileList, all "new proposal" operations (like .drop(item)) will be list operations envisioned for an iterable type, which I guess Array gives us out of the box. OK, I'm sold :) 115073 5 arun 2014-11-18 20:52:42 +0000 We've marked this "at risk" but haven't removed it, owing to the other platform bits that need to happen. 115075 6 jonas 2014-11-18 21:06:26 +0000 Once bug 23682 is fixed, we can probably just do |typedef FileList FrozenArray<File>;|. This way we don't have to depend on others to remove it from their spec. 123770 7 arun 2015-10-19 15:47:52 +0000 We're migrating File API bugs to GitHub Issues; this one is: https://github.com/w3c/FileAPI/issues/19