I create an Iframe on the fly and set as the url a page that downloads a binary file (xls, doc...). While files are downloading I show an animation. When does not, I hide it.
The problem is that Chrome does not know when the files are fully downloaded, that is when the iframe is completely loaded. I use the iframe property readyState
to check the iframe state:
var iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
iframe.style.visibility = "hidden";
// I start a progress animation
window.setTimeout(showProgressAnimation, 1000);
// I start the file download
iframe.src ='GetFile.aspx?file=' + fileName;
document.body.appendChild(iframe);
function showProgressAnimation() {
if (iframe.readyState == "complete" || iframe.readyState == "interactive") {
// I stop the animation and show the page
animation.style.display = 'none';
progressBar.hide();
$('#page').show();
}
else {
// Chrome is always getting into this line
window.setTimeout(showProgressAnimation, 1000);
}
}
So the result is an infinite loop.
I've tried the following and it works in Firefox and Chrome but not when the contents are a binary file:
if ($.browser.mozilla || $.browser.webkit ) {
iframe.onload = function showProgressAnimation() {
animation.style.display = 'none';
progressBar.hide();
$('#page').show();
}
}
// IE
else{
window.setTimeout(showProgressAnimation, 1000);
}
You can use the onload
to signaling the load of the iframe
here is a simple example that working
var iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
iframe.style.display = "none";
// this function will called when the iframe loaded
iframe.onload = function (){
iframe.style.display = "block";
alert("loaded");
};
// set the src last.
iframe.src ='http://www.test.com';
// add it to the page.
document.getElementById("one").appendChild(iframe);
Tested here:
http://jsfiddle.net/48MQW/5/
With src
loaded last.
http://jsfiddle.net/48MQW/24/
The downloadable file content doesn't trigger the readystatechange event handler or the onload event handler. This couse you can set a cookie in server side together the file content, and client side check this cookie periodically. For example:
server
response.cookie('fileDownloaded','true');
response.header('attachment','your-file-name.any');
//...write bytes to response...
client
var checker = setInterval(()=>{
if(document.cookie.indexOf('fileDownloaded')>-1){
alert('done');
clearInterval(checker);
}
},100);
Of course, you can use your framework to check the cookie value correctly, this is just a poc, not a safe cookie parser.
Please try this - you are really mixing dom and jQuery from line to line
var tId;
function stopAnim() {
// I stop the animation and show the page
animation.hide();
progressBar.hide();
$('#page').show();
clearInterval(tId);
}
var iframe = $("<iframe />");
iframe.css("visibility","hidden");
iframe.on("readystatechange",function() {
if (this.readyState == "complete" || this.readyState == "interactive") {
stopAnim();
}
});
iframe.on("load",function() { // can possibly be deleted
if (tId) {
stopAnim();
}
});
iframe.attr("src","GetFile.aspx?file=" + fileName);
$("body").append(iframe);
tId = setInterval(function() {
// update progress here
}, 1000); //