ui.DragDrop.getBuffer
Get drag & drop data from the buffer.
Syntax
getBuffer()
RETURNS STRING
Usage
After identifying the MIME type of a dropped object with getSelectedMimeType()
,
you can call the getBuffer()
method to get text data from the drag & drop
buffer.
Drag & drop data is only available at ON DROP
time, therefore, the
getBuffer()
method must be called in ON DROP
only.
Note: When using URI MIME types (for file paths for example), the string
returned from the
getBuffer()
method can contain URL-encoded characters such as
%5E
, which represents the ^
caret. Therefore, you must URL-decode
strings returned from getBuffer()
with util.Strings.urlDecode()
. When
setting the drag & drop buffer content, if required by the front-end platform, the string can be
URL-encoded using util.Strings.urlEncode()
for setBuffer()
. However, URL-encoding
file paths for setBuffer()
is usually not required.