Welcome to client-zip Discussions!

[Touffy]

👋 Welcome!

Discussions are here for users of client-zip to ask about client-zip usage, share interesting use-cases, and other things that are not really "issues". Please keep opening issues for bug reports and feature requests.

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[Andinh123]

Hey! The client-zip works really well. But how can I include a file which uploaded by the user themselve into the zip folder? I'm trying to make a tools that the user uploads a file, then JS will fetch certain files based on the uploaded file from my server, finally it will zip them all up. But I can't find any doc about adding uploaded file.

[Touffy]

The documentation does say that you can use File objects as input.

Your user sends the file using an <input type="file"> in a form, right ? just access the files property on that input. It's an array of File objects (in your case, it will only have one item). And of course you can mix Files and Responses in downloadZip. The File can be reused as many times as you like — both for sending it to your back-end for processing, and copying it in downloadZip.

[Touffy]

The MDN page for <input type="file"> has a thorough example on how to get Files out of it.

I guess, in your use case, the trickiest part is not getting the File, but how you handle getting more files to go with the user's file (where is the logic ? can some of it be moved client-side ?). I cannot easily write relevant code for that because I don't know what you actually need, or your constraints, or the performance expectations. If it's meant to be an open-source tool, could you publish the source ?