Split an uploaded file into multiple chunks using javascript

Question

I\'m looking for a way to split up any text/data file on the front end in the browser before being uploaded as multiple files. My limit is 40KB per upload. So if a user uplo

Answer 1

You could avoid having to base64 encode by using a FileReader and then sending as binary:

const url = 'http://www.example.com/upload';

document.getElementById('file-uploader').addEventListener('change', function(e) {
    const size = 40000;
    var reader = new FileReader();
    var buf;
    var file = document.getElementById('file-uploader').files[0];
    reader.onload = function(e) {
        buf = new Uint8Array(e.target.result);
        for (var i = 0;  i < buf.length; i += size) {
            var fd = new FormData();
            fd.append('fname', [file.name, i+1, 'of', buf.length].join('-'));
            fd.append('data', new Blob([buf.subarray(i, i + size)]));
            var oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
            oReq.open("POST", url, true);
            oReq.onload = function (oEvent) {
               // Uploaded.
            };
            oReq.send(fd);
        }
    }
      
    reader.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
});