README.md

FormData

npm install formdata-polyfill

A FormData polyfill

This polyfill conditionally replaces the native implementation rather then fixing the missing functions, since otherwise there is no way to get or delete existing values in the FormData object. Therefore this also patches XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send and fetch to send the FormData as a blob.

I was unable to patch the Response/Request constructor so if you are constructing them with FormData you need to call fd._blob() manually.

new Request(url, {
  method: 'post',
  body: fd._blob ? fd._blob() : fd
})

Dependencies

The internal data is kept private to prevent unintentional access to it, therefore WeakMap is used and you may also need a polyfill for that.

If you need to support IE <= 9 then I recommend you to include eligrey's blob.js

Updating from 2.x to 3.x

Previously you had to import the polyfill and use that, since it didn't replace the global (existing) FormData implementation. But now it transparently calls _blob() for you when you are sending something with fetch or XHR, by way of monkey-patching the XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send and fetch functions.

So you maybe had something like this:

var FormData = require('formdata-polyfill')
var fd = new FormData(form)
xhr.send(fd._blob())

There is no longer anything exported from the module (though you of course still need to import it to install the polyfill), so you can now use the FormData object as normal:

require('formdata-polyfill')
var fd = new FormData(form)
xhr.send(fd)

The status of the native FormData (2018-11-15) is:

This polyfill normalizes support for the FormData API:

• append with filename
• delete(), get(), getAll(), has(), set()
• entries(), keys(), values(), and support for for...of
• Available in web workers (just include the polyfill)