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Types

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The option and record types the rest of these docs refer to, and the upload phases named in error messages.


Size#

A byte count. A bare number is bytes; a string takes a unit: b, kb, mb, gb, tb.

Sizes are decimal, matching how storage is billed. '2mb' is 2,000,000 bytes, not 2,097,152. Binary spellings like '5mib' throw. An unparseable size throws a TypeError where the option is written, not per request.

A limit you write by hand takes a Size: maxSize, multipart. A measurement you forward is a plain number of bytes: the size option on put, and every size the SDK returns. That mirrors File.size and Blob.size, so a value flows from one to the other without conversion.

formatBytes, exported from all three entrypoints, formats a number the same decimal way: formatBytes(2_400_000) is 2.4 MB.


Duration#

A span of time. A bare number is seconds; a string takes a unit: ms, s, m, h, d, or a long form (sec, seconds, min, minutes, hr, hours, day, days). A string with no unit is seconds. An unparseable duration throws a TypeError naming the option.


CacheOption#

One of three words, a Duration, or a raw Cache-Control header. The header each one stores is on Caching.


Records#

Four record shapes come back from the SDK. They nest.

TypeFieldsReturned by
BlobObjectpath, url?, versionedUrl?, size, etag, uploadedAtlist(), copy(), move(), updateJson()
CompletedBlobBlobObject plus contentTypeput(), onUploadComplete, a finished browser upload
BlobInfoBlobObject plus contentType and metadatainfo()
BlobDownloadBlobInfo plus body: ReadableStream<Uint8Array>get()

BlobObject fields:

FieldTypeDescription
pathstringThe object's key.
urlstring | undefinedThe public object URL. undefined on a private bucket.
versionedUrlstring | undefined${url}?v=${etag}, etag percent-encoded. undefined when url is.
sizenumberBytes.
etagstringStorage's etag, quoted: "9f3c...".
uploadedAtDateLast modified.

Across the SDK, blob names a record, never the bytes. Bytes go in and come out as body.


Upload phases#

A direct browser upload makes up to four kinds of request to your upload route. The names appear in error messages and across these docs.

PhaseWhenWhat your route does
beginFirst request, onceChecks constraints, runs onBeforeUpload, signs the first URL(s). Never retried.
partsMultipart only, as neededSigns the next batch of part URLs.
endOnce the bytes landedCompletes the upload, runs onUploadComplete. Retried by the browser on failure.
cancelOn cancel()Aborts the multipart upload, or deletes the single-PUT object.

The PUTs that carry the bytes go to storage, never to your route. How signing works has the full handshake.