Base64 field

EPrints 3 Reference: Directory Structure - Metadata Fields - Repository Configuration - XML Config Files - XML Export Format - EPrints data structure - Core API - Data Objects

Metadata Fields: Base64 - Bigint - Boolean - Compound - Counter - Date - Email - Float - Id - Idci - Int - Itemref - Keywords - Longtext - Longtext_counter - Multilang - Name - Namedset - Pagerange - Recaptcha - Set - Subject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url

Description

Base64 encoded data.

As for text fields with the following differences...

name	default	description
input_rows	n/a	This property is taken from the repository configuration.
maxlength	65535	Can be overridden in the field definition.

No additional phrases.

Base64 fields are stored in the database as

 fieldname LONGTEXT

A basic example.

{
   name => 'base64_data',
   type => 'base64',
}

Limit the maximum size of file data that can submitted to 2 MiB.

{
   name => 'file_data',
   type => 'base64',
   maxlength => '2097152',
}

Displayed <textarea> should have a height of five rows for entering this metadata.

{
   name => 'code',
   type => 'base64',
   input_rows=> '5',
}