Doesn't work on input file?

[adamkarb]

I was hoping this would work on a form I have that also has an input=file tag, but it does not seem to track that input. All other input types are working. Let me know if I am doing something incorrectly please.
Thanks

[slavafomin]

Hello @adamkarb!

I've not designed this module to work with input[file]. Could you describe your use case and explain how you expect it to behave?

Thanks.

[adamkarb]

I was hoping to test against whether or not the form has been changed, and that would prevent the user from leaving the page without saving changes or confirming exit. It is just a problem since there are input files in the form as well.

[slavafomin]

I see. I will try to come up with the solution. Will get back to you soon. Thanks for your report.

[slavafomin]

I'm sorry Adam, but it looks like input[file] input type is not supported by the ngModel directive. input-modified is based on model directive in order to work and will not work without it. Probably we could create a "shim", but I think it will be out of scope for input-modified.

There are two options for you here:

1. Implement an ngModel directive for input[file] yourself. input-modified should work on top of it if you will stick to the ngModel original interface.
2. Use some additional checks in your application code to detect uploaded, but not saved, files.

I will try to look into this issue in the future, but I couldn't give it a high priority right now.

[adamkarb]

Yea I hacked my way through it. I'm no javascript expert but it would be cool if angular had some built in way to work around it.

[slavafomin]

Hey! I'm glad to hear that you've managed to overcome this limitation. It would be great if you will be able to share your solution here with others in case someone else in the future will stumble upon this )

[adamkarb]

I watched them via the jQuery .change() method. If they changed, I set a variable to true that was checked later on before the user changes states.