I am trying to experiment with reading and writing in File System Web API but I keep getting TypeError Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: window.showOpenFilePicker is not a function, I have no idea what is going.
Here is react code snippet:
const FileReader = () => {
const openThisFile = async () => {
const [fileHandle] = await window.showOpenFilePicker(); // error: Property 'showOpenFilePicker' does not exist on type 'Window & typeof globalThis'
console.log(fileHandle);
};
return (
<div>
<button onClick={openThisFile}>Open file</button>
</div>
);
};
export default FileReader;
And so I thought it's not working in react and then I tried Vanilla Javascript but still I keep getting TypeError Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: window.showOpenFilePicker is not a function in the console. Here is the code snippet.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Open file</title>
</head>
<body>
<button onclick="getFile()">Open file</button>
<script>
const pickerOpts = {
types: [
{
description: "Images",
accept: {
"image/*": [".png", ".gif", ".jpeg", ".jpg"],
},
},
],
excludeAcceptAllOption: true,
multiple: false,
};
let fileHandle;
async function getFile() {
[fileHandle] = await window.showOpenFilePicker(pickerOpts);
// run code with our fileHandle
}
console.log(fileHandle);
</script>
</body>
</html>
Any idea on what I am doing wrong?
I suppose you are seeing the issue above because of the following:
Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
Consider looking into the docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/showOpenFilePicker