Essentially, this the similar to a dataset upload where the origin is from a web page when a user clicks on a HTML button. The button is not part of the tool framework but any number of possible

I am writing a variety of data editors in JavaScript and it would be convenient to upload the dataset into the user's current history list.

of JavaScript actions.

I think I should be able to use the regular upload1 (upload.py) machinery. But So far, I have not had success in tricking it with my JavaScript function. I know that I could add web api. But there is a lot hairy code in the history dataset association that looks like it will change. So I'd rather keep it simple.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ted

function UploadToHistory(name, value) { var payload = { tool_id: "upload1", 'file_type': 'tabular',

'file_name', name, 'dbkey': '?',

'files_0|url_paste': value}; $.ajax( { async: false, type: "POST", url: "/tool_runner/index", data: payload, dataType: "json", success: function(array_obj, status) { console.log("success", array_obj, status); }, failure: function() {console.log("fail");} } ); }