HTML5 File API: FileReader.readAsText() returns "undefined"

Question

I use Chrome 12 on Mac OS X and I've included jQuery 1.6.1 within the document.

I try to read the contents of a file as text and save it in a data-object with the following function:

this.upload = function(file) {
    console.log('FileHandler.upload called with ' + file.name + '.');
    console.log(file);
    console.log(this.reader);

    data = {
        content: this.reader.readAsText(file)
    }

    console.log('Content: ' + data.content);
}

"file" seams to be a valid file-object and "this.reader" is a fresh instance of type FileReader. This code creates the following console output:

http://cl.ly/1Y2b383G2F272x1m1P0N

Answer 1

That's not the way it works according to the docs. You should call the readAsText() function, and when it's completed the result is stored in .result.