Parsing issue: Dropbox chooser with $.ajax works fine but not for .xlxs and .docx

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Ecma scripting is not my strength so I was very happy to experience an instant success with Dropbox's file chooser. But ...

With files from Microsoft, I get a 200 but also a parser exception. It says that the content type is xml but cannot be parsed. I don not need any parsed content, I only need a String that contains some representation of the content. I hash it and keep its hash for later comparison.

So it is rather a parsing issue. Using smarx (that amazing guy is everywhere I stumble) suggestion I have an ArrayBuffer from a XMLHttpRequest.

So my real question is: how do I convert an ArrayBuffer to a String with tolerant or no parsing.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-downvotes — otembajelle, Jan 22 '18 at 12:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '18 at 13:19

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To unknown, why are you downvoting? Someone else may hit the same issue.

The challenge is to convert ArrayBuffer to a String. Renato shows how it can be done: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2012/06/How-to-convert-ArrayBuffer-to-and-from-String

answered Jan 22 '18 at 13:19

otembajelle

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I oversay https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26754486/how-to-convert-arraybuffer-to-string – otembajelle Jan 22 '18 at 13:49

Parsing issue: Dropbox chooser with $.ajax works fine but not for .xlxs and .docx

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