⚓ T64513 Create mw.Api.plugin.upload for uploading from MediaWiki frontend code

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Add frontend API for uploading via iframe	mediawiki/core	master	+242 -1

Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Resolved		Florian	T39932 VisualEditor: Upload-by-insertion of images via copy-paste
Resolved		Esanders	T40031 VisualEditor: Initiate file upload by drag-and-drop
Resolved		Esanders	T40030 Way in VisualEditor to initiate Commons file uploading, and insert image on completion
Open	Feature	None	T35234 Image uploading social workflow and motivation - display result on context pages!
Resolved		• Prtksxna	T115748 Allow uploading files directly from the wikitext editor
Resolved		• Prtksxna	T91717 Be able to embed an upload dialog so that other extensions (e.g. WikiEditor, VisualEditor) can provide it to users
Open		None	T28751 Extensions that should really be core functionality (tracking)
Resolved		matthiasmullie	T103400 Expand mw.Api.plugin.upload to use chunked uploads when available and selected
Resolved		MarkTraceur	T103399 Expand mw.Api.plugin.upload to stash uploads when requested
Resolved		MarkTraceur	T103398 Expand mw.Api.plugin.upload to use File API where available
Resolved		MarkTraceur	T64513 Create mw.Api.plugin.upload for uploading from MediaWiki frontend code

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:59 AM

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• Mattflaschen-WMF created this task.Mar 10 2014, 9:59 PM

MobileFrontend also has an uploading client implementation; are you thinking of some sort of low-level JS API wrapping file uploads that could be used by both, or specifically the high-level UploadWizard UI?

(In reply to Brion Vibber from comment #1)

MobileFrontend also has an uploading client implementation; are you thinking
of some sort of low-level JS API wrapping file uploads that could be used by
both, or specifically the high-level UploadWizard UI?

The actual low-level, client, upload part. It should abstract away the transport, and support chunked uploads if the user has it enabled. It shouldn't include UI, but it should make such UIs possible (callbacks for completion, failure, progress).

Basically some version of ApiUpload* (see also the Transport and Handler ones, like https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FUploadWizard.git/HEAD/resources%2Fmw.FormDataTransport.js from https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FUploadWizard.git/HEAD/resources .

It doesn't need to include all the UW stuff (e.g. Firefogg is probably not neeeded), just enough to get the job done with reasonable browser compatibility.

However, unlike UW, it should be in core and correctly abstracted (e.g. no transport.uploadObject.ui.setStatus in low-level code). UploadWizard, MobileFrontend, PronunciationRecording, and probably other stuff I'm not thinking of should all be able to use it.

I would suggest special:upload could optionally use it. As it stands we have very limitted support for big file upload out of the box, and upwiz does not meet many of the third party use cases.

See 597142b2e5a0c44b4efd369d1d339e3813aeefdf for a starting point; that doesn't appear to support chunked uploads.

Just to be clear, that has been merged.

Upload API would also be useful here:
Change-Id: I25a8a8832fab131e026fb062e7c4968193260b07

• Gilles added a project: Multimedia.Nov 24 2014, 3:41 PM

Tgr mentioned this in T91717: Be able to embed an upload dialog so that other extensions (e.g. WikiEditor, VisualEditor) can provide it to users.Mar 6 2015, 4:06 AM

Jdforrester-WMF added a parent task: T91717: Be able to embed an upload dialog so that other extensions (e.g. WikiEditor, VisualEditor) can provide it to users.Mar 20 2015, 10:54 PM

• Mattflaschen-WMF renamed this task from Client-side upload API in core to Create mw.Api.plugin.upload for uploading from MediaWiki frontend code.Jun 22 2015, 9:33 PM

• Mattflaschen-WMF merged a task: T103397: Create mw.Api.plugin.upload for uploading from MediaWiki frontend code.

• Mattflaschen-WMF set Security to None.

• Mattflaschen-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

• Mattflaschen-WMF added a parent task: T103400: Expand mw.Api.plugin.upload to use chunked uploads when available and selected.

• Mattflaschen-WMF added a parent task: T103399: Expand mw.Api.plugin.upload to stash uploads when requested.

• Mattflaschen-WMF added a parent task: T103398: Expand mw.Api.plugin.upload to use File API where available.

• Mattflaschen-WMF added a subscriber: Aklapper.

I'll start working on this now.

Change 220550 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarkTraceur):
Add frontend API for uploading via iframe

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/220550

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 24 2015, 7:09 PM

Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Jul 13 2015, 5:42 PM