Addon for sending Excel Files to a REST API

Questions
1

I’ve been looking for a addon that will allow me to upload a a Excel file and send it to a rest api backend. I’ve seen a few addons for upload but they all seem to be for images. Any help would be appreciated.

2

I haven’t used it myself but have you looked at ember-file-upload? It looks very configurable (including support for arbitrary file types) and has a number of examples and nice things like test helpers.

3

I’ve tried that. It only seems to support images, gifs, video and audio files.

4

Looks like someone got it to work with .csv in this issue. I don’t see why any other type would be different.

5

I just tried it out in a new blank app and just had to change the accept argument to “.xlsx” and it seems to work as expected. Looks like it also supports mime types as well. I just used one of the recipes with slight modifications:

{{#file-dropzone name="spreadsheets" as |dropzone queue|}}
  {{#if dropzone.active}}
    {{#if dropzone.valid}}
      Drop to upload
    {{else}}
      Invalid
    {{/if}}
  {{else if queue.files.length}}
    Uploading {{queue.files.length}} files. ({{queue.progress}}%)
  {{else}}
    <h4>Upload stuff</h4>
    <p>
      {{#if dropzone.supported}}
        Drag and drop spreadsheets onto this area to upload them or
      {{/if}}
      {{#file-upload name="spreadsheets"
                     for="upload-spreadsheet"
                     accept=".xlsx"
                     multiple=true
                     onfileadd=(action "uploadSpreadsheet")}}
        <a tabindex=0>Add a spreadsheet.</a>
      {{/file-upload}}
    </p>
  {{/if}}
{{/file-dropzone}}
6

Are you able to actually get a excel file to upload to a API? I’ve been trying and cant get it to connect

7

Hmmm didn’t try that (don’t have a working API atm) but I would think that would be a separate issue… when you say you can’t get it to connect are you getting an HTTP error or something?