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FormData

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Ideas around changing the FormData API.

  • Populate FormData from the server. (multipart/form-data entity -> FormData)
  • Get and manipulate FormData values.

FormData Proposal

  • void append(name, value [, filename]) — normalize Blob [+ filename] to File since it always gets a filename
  • void set(name, value [, filename]) — replaces *all* name entries
  • void remove(name) — removes *all* name entries
  • sequence<DOMString> getNames()
  • sequence<DOMString> getValues(name)

XMLHttpRequest Proposal

responseType = "formdata"

Parse as multipart/form-data and populate FormData. Probably need to have a good definition of multipart/form-data first.

HTML Proposal

Something like HTMLFormElement.populate(FormData) which updates all entries with the data from FormData. Maybe it should take a dictionary to indicate whether unaffected items should be cleared or retained.