Thanks Alex! Again, my mistake - I did not pay attention to the path returned by (: drop) - I had incorrectly assumed that the path was from system it was uploaded from :) It looks like the file is already downloaded to a temp location before we handle it - nice! Regards, Kashyap
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 1:31 PM Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:17:45AM -0800, C K Kashyap wrote: > > Okay, I can see the file name when I print out (: drop) > > > > ! (: drop) > > > > -> "/root/.pil/tmp/310/Screen Shot 2019-10-17 at 10.00.18 AM.png" > > > > How can I get the content of the file? Is it (: home obj)? - that's NIL > for > > me. > > Hmm, you can do anything what you can do with a file: Read it, copy it, > move it > somewhere else. > > : (info (: drop)) > > should give you size and timestamps, > > : (in (: drop) ...) > > lets you read its contents, or > > : (call "mv" (: drop) "/path/to/my/file") > > lets you move it. > > The example in app/item.l > > (cond > ... > ((: drop) (blob! (: home obj) 'jpg @)) > > stores it as a blob in the current object in the current form (because > 'cond' > sets '@' according to the PicoLisp '@' rules for flow functions). > > ☺/ A!ex > > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
