Uppy: Has the wish that support directory uploader?

[imcuttle]

[goto-bus-stop]

Hi! Are you asking about support for selecting directories in the OS's file selection screen?

I'm not sure if that's possible in browsers currently, but we can investigate it more.

[arturi]

Hi! Discussed in #447:

I checked this again, and from my tests it seems there’s no way to allow adding directories and/or files, it’s one or the other. So we’d have to provide two inputs, one for folders, one for files.

I think it’s an overkill, so will close this for now, unless I’m overlooking something, please let me know.

@ameft
Your right @arturi, you can't upload directories and/or files, it’s one or the other. Indeed in our app we provide one main input for file uploads and a secondary, less prominent, input for folder uploads.
To me, and also to our users, the ability to easily recreate entire local directory trees in our cloud environment has shown to be a highly appreciated feature. But I understand that the point of view are different.
Maybe a new source in the top bar of Uppy Dashboard is the right location for a specific folder upload button?

[jrochkind]

I still wish there was a way to do directory upload through OS file selection modal, in uppy dashboard.

It might require two separate buttons/links, but it could be a dashboard option to turn it on or off. A previous solution using the popular "jquery file upload" tool supported this in our app, and our users liked it.

[PaddoSwam]

@goto-bus-stop this certainly is possible, browsers support this through an attribute on the file input:

<input id="example" type="file" webkitdirectory />

You can see on caniuse.com/#search=webkitDirectory that even Safari has support for this feature since March 2018.

This functionality will trigger an additional browser popup asking wheter you _really_ want to upload this directory since it potentially give the website read rights to your whole disk if you accidently selected the root folder or a disk. However if the user still accepts this it will present it self through a FileList on the input element:

var fileList = document.getElementById("example").files

Also see this jsfiddle

[markb-trustifi]

I have Safari 12.0.1 (13606.2.104.1.2) on MacOS High Sierra and it doesn't support it.
The https://caniuse.com site is mistaking.

[arturi]

Adding to backlog and closing for now. Thanks for the suggestion!