kotlin-browser/web.data/DataTransferItem

DataTransferItem

The DataTransferItem object represents one drag data item. During a drag operation, each DragEvent has a dataTransfer property which contains a list of drag data items. Each item in the list is a DataTransferItem object.

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Properties

kind

val kind: String

The read-only DataTransferItem.kind property returns the kind–a string or a file–of the DataTransferItem object representing the drag data item.

type

val type: String

The read-only DataTransferItem.type property returns the type (format) of the DataTransferItem object representing the drag data item. The type is a Unicode string generally given by a MIME type, although a MIME type is not required.

Functions

getAsFile

fun getAsFile(): File?

If the item is a file, the DataTransferItem.getAsFile() method returns the drag data item's File object. If the item is not a file, this method returns null.

getAsString

fun getAsString(callback: FunctionStringCallback?)

The DataTransferItem.getAsString() method invokes the given callback with the drag data item's string data as the argument if the item's kind is a Plain unicode string (i.e., kind is string).

webkitGetAsEntry

fun webkitGetAsEntry(): FileSystemEntry?

If the item described by the DataTransferItem is a file, webkitGetAsEntry() returns a FileSystemFileEntry or FileSystemDirectoryEntry representing it. If the item isn't a file, null is returned.