Closed Bug 148264 Opened 23 years ago Closed 19 years ago

No way to instantiate nsIBinaryStreams from javascript

Categories

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170585
Future

People

(Reporter: mahlfors, Assigned: darin.moz)

Details

Problem: There seems to be no way of instantiating nsIBinaryStreams from javascript though the interface should be scriptable in itself. Components.classes contains no entry for this interface. I was asked to file this bug after a discussion on #mozilla where the general opinion was that this was just an oversight. My original problem was that I couldn't find any way to read/write binary files from javascript. nsIScriptableInputStream doesn't seem to work with binary files (as also noted in bug 128215).
reporter: how badly do you need this bug fixed?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Not that badly really since in my case I can use file upload instead to get the job done. But I can imagine that a lot of XUL programmers might be somewhat dissapointed if there is no way one can read/write binary files from javascript, that really limits the possibilities for XUL projects a lot. Is there really no workaround?
This has been fixed since 2003-03-13. See bug 170585, which fixed it. I suggest this is a dup of bug 170585.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170585 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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