drag & drop folder : add full path to the file object

[sergiofbsilva]

When a folder is dropped it will flatten all the files in the $files array.
It would be good to have the fullpath in each file.

[sergiofbsilva]

related to #238

[danialfarid]

Does your server handle the folder upload? I think this feature very much depends on the server implementation. As for the client only Chrome and recent Opera versions supports drag and drop folders so this feature would not be cross browser.
I am not sure how you could sent the folder as a form data entry, what would be the content and how do you differentiate between a folder and a file? Also how can you tell if a file is inside another folder?
I don't think HTML5 folder drag and drop is quiet there yet.

[sergiofbsilva]

my idea is to send for each file the fullpath on the clientside. That info is already there in the items when you do the traverseTree it is just a matter of putting it in the file object. I can deal with the recreation of the folder structure in the serverside with no problems.

So the upload could send the match filename -> filepath in the data param or something similar.

[danialfarid]

Ok so what you are suggesting is to just send the files not folders but change the name of the files to be the relative path + name of the file. Right?

[sergiofbsilva]

Yes or just put in the file object a property called fullpath and let us do the concat if needed.

To change the name to the absolute path maybe is not a good idea for other people and would be an incompatible api change I think.

[danialfarid]

Ok, I can add an extra field to the file object like _relativePath that contains the relative path to that file, then when you upload you can send that data along with the file or change the file name whichever works better for you on the server side.

[sergiofbsilva]

• FolderX
  • Folder Y
    • a.txt
  • b.txt

If I drag FolderX I expect that a.txt has the path /FolderX/FolderY and b.txt has the path /FolderX

Don't really know what is the best name for the property though.

[danialfarid]

Version 1.6.5 now has file._relativePath variable which you can send along with the file to the server to know the directory structure on the client side.

[danialfarid]

It is renamed to file.path instead of file._relativePath.