Uploading files to a server

Now that we've got a script on a server that's waiting for us to upload content, we can use the File Transfer plugin to do just that. Instead of calling download, we'll be calling upload, as you might expect. This does require some options to be set, so it's not quite as simple as calling download.

upload accepts several parameters:

• fileToUpload indicates the file stored on the local device that you want to upload. Use the cdvfile:// file path.

• uploadURL is the URL of your upload script. This should be passed through encodeURI.

• uploadSuccess will be called if the upload was successful.

• uploadError will be called if the upload didn't complete successfully.

• options specifies the file key, name, and mime type at a minimum. It can also supply parameters, headers, and other useful settings. This is an instance of FileUploadOptions.

Note

The snippets in this section are located at snippets/09/ex2-uploading-files in the code package of this book. When using the interactive...