alfresco-ng2-components/docs/core/directives/upload.directive.md

Title, Added, Status, Last reviewed

Title	Added	Status	Last reviewed
Upload Directive	v2.0.0	Active	2018-11-20

Upload Directive

Uploads content in response to file drag and drop.

Basic usage

<button [adf-upload]="true" [multiple]="true" [accept]="'image/*'">
    Upload photos
</button>

Class members

Properties

Name	Type	Default value	Description
accept	string		(Click mode only) MIME type filter for files to accept.
data	any		Data to upload.
directory	boolean		(Click mode only) Toggles uploading of directories.
enabled	boolean	true	Enables/disables uploading.
mode	string[]	['drop']	Upload mode. Can be "drop" (receives dropped files) or "click" (clicking opens a file dialog). Both modes can be active at once.
multiple	boolean		Toggles multiple file uploads.

Details

Add the directive to a component or HTML element to enable it to upload files. You can decorate any element including buttons:

<button [adf-upload]="true" [multiple]="true" [accept]="'image/*'">
    Upload photos
</button>

The directive itself does not do any file management, but it collects information about dropped files and emits events in response.

<div style="width:100px; height:100px"
     [adf-upload]="true"
     [adf-upload-data]="{ some: 'data' }">
    Drop files here...
</div>

You can enable or disable upload functionality by binding the directive to a boolean value or expression:

<div [adf-upload]="true">...</div>
<div [adf-upload]="allowUpload">...</div>
<div [adf-upload]="isUploadEnabled()">...</div>

Modes

The Upload directive supports two modes:

• drop mode, where the decorated element acts like a drop zone for files (enabled by default)
• click mode, where the decorated element invokes a file dialog to select files or folders.

You can also use both modes together:

<div [adf-upload]="true" mode="['click']">...</div>
<div [adf-upload]="true" mode="['drop']">...</div>
<div [adf-upload]="true" mode="['click', 'drop']">...</div>

Click mode

In click mode you can provide extra attributes for the file dialog:

• directory, enables directory selection
• multiple, enables multiple file/folder selection
• accept, filters the content accepted

<div style="width: 50px; height: 50px; background-color: brown"
     [adf-upload]="true"
     [multiple]="true"
     [accept]="'image/*'">
</div>

<div style="width: 50px; height: 50px; background-color: blueviolet"
     [adf-upload]="true"
     [multiple]="true"
     [directory]="true">
</div>

Drop mode

Currently, the upload directive supports only file drops (single or multiple). Support for folders and accept filters will probably be implemented in a future version.

Events

The upload-files CustomEvent is emitted when single or multiple files are dropped on the decorated element. The DOM event is configured to have bubbling enabled, so any component up the component tree can handle, process or prevent it:

<div (upload-files)="onUploadFiles($event)">
    <div [adf-upload]="true"></div>
</div>

onUploadFiles(e: CustomEvent) {
    console.log(e.detail.files);

    // your code
}

Note that the event will be emitted only if valid files are dropped onto the decorated element.

The upload-files event is cancellable, so you can stop propagation of the drop event upwards when it has been handled by your code:

onUploadFiles(e: CustomEvent) {
    e.stopPropagation();
    e.preventDefault();

    // your code
}

You can also attach arbitrary data to each event which you can then access from external event handlers. A typical scenario is with data tables where you may want to make use of the data row or make underlying data accessible when files are dropped.

You can use adf-upload-data to bind custom values or objects for every event raised:

<div [adf-upload]="true" [adf-upload-data]="dataRow"></div>
<div [adf-upload]="true" [adf-upload-data]="'string value'"></div>
<div [adf-upload]="true" [adf-upload-data]="{ name: 'custom object' }"></div>
<div [adf-upload]="true" [adf-upload-data]="getUploadData()"></div>

You can access the following items of the details property from the CustomEvent:

detail: {
    sender: UploadDirective,    // directive that raised given event
    data: any,                  // arbitrary data associated (bound)
    files: File[]               // dropped files
}

Styling

The decorated element is styled with the adf-upload__dragging CSS class whenever a file is dragged over it. This lets you change the look and feel of your components when you need different visual indication. For example, you could draw a dashed border around a table row when an item is dragged onto it:

<table>
    <tr [adf-upload]="true">
        ...
    </tr>
</table>

.adf-upload__dragging > td:first-child {
    border-left: 1px dashed rgb(68,138,255);
}

.adf-upload__dragging > td {
    border-top: 1px dashed rgb(68,138,255);
    border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(68,138,255);
}

.adf-upload__dragging > td:last-child {
    border-right: 1px dashed rgb(68,138,255);
}