Deno: FileReader API missing

[brianleroux]

The browser global FileReader is missing which is in use by many popular modules such as the aws-sdk by AWS.

[ry]

Hey Brian :)

I definitely want to get aws-sdk ported - that would be awesome.

[brianleroux]

Meeee too. I think we will have an S3 client shortly here anyhow. The community DynamoDB client is excellent starting point. And once we have SNS and SQS…I won't have a use case for Node anymore.

[jimmywarting]

Thinking we don't need another way of reading files when .text(), .arrayBuffer() & .stream() already exist

Kinda the new way of reading blob's in browser now days

https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/4581

[crowlKats]

well aws-sdk and others use FileReader

[jimmywarting]

feels like the FileReader will become more obsolete when ppl switch to the new methods

[ashx404]

But it'll take time for them to become obsolete.

[kitsonk]

We have always supported standard browser APIs based on a compelling feature request and complexity of implementing, versus whether there are better ways to do it. Supporting aws-sdk is a very compelling use case.

[PaulThompson]

I had an attempt at the aws-sdk
https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js-v3/issues/1289

[PaulThompson]

I made a start on FileReader https://github.com/PaulThompson/deno/tree/feat-filereader

[PaulThompson]

Ready for review on https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/6673

[bartlomieju]

Done in https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/6673, will be released in v1.3.0 on Thursday.

CC @brianleroux

[lucacasonato]

Meeee too. I think we will have an S3 client shortly here anyhow. The community DynamoDB client is excellent starting point. And once we have SNS and SQS…I won't have a use case for Node anymore.

@brianleroux FYI I started work on a S3 and SQS client a while ago. Not fully featured yet, but it is a start.