Elm file reader

First, a word of warning. This package uses a technique known as event handler content attributes, which is part of the HTML standard. However, this functionality may be removed from Elm, see https://github.com/elm-lang/html/issues/56.

So, use this package with this in mind.

This package is a simple way to use the FileReader api from Elm. It provides attributes that help handle the different events and read files and send them as messages to Elm.

To make a file input and get a message in Elm, this is all you have to do:

import FileReader

type Msg =
    FileSelected FileReader.File

Html.input (FileReader.fileInput FileReader.DataURL FileSelected) []

Example

Look in the examples folder. Live version at https://norpan.github.io/elm-file-reader-example.html