Blazor Support Large File Uploads

[christophwille]

I have a working Blazor Web Assembly app that uploads files to Azure Storage (server provides SAS token urls, client upload to that destination). This works a-ok for "small" files the size of a couple 100MBs. However, I now have a 6.8GB file that doesn't - I am using bog standard code along the lines of the documentation:

Azure.Response<BlobContentInfo> azresponse = await blobClient.UploadAsync(fileStream, new BlobUploadOptions()
{
  ProgressHandler = new Progress<long>((progress) =>
  {
     vm.ProgressBarPercentage = (int)(100.0 * progress / vm.InputFileSize);
     this.StateHasChanged();
  })
});

For this large file, it returns immediately and creates a zero byte file on Azure Storage. I then tried this:

 var x = new byte[200];
 int res = await fileStream.ReadAsync(x, 0, 100);

Surprisingly, res is 0 so I see why the storage library would create a 0 byte file... but I don't get why Blazor behaves that way. (Note: I didn't test to see at what file size this behavior kicks in). I also didn't see anything that would indicate any sort of error. The stream simply isn't returning data.

[javiercn]

@christophwille thanks for contacting us.

Is the stream returning a 0 for the read coming from the InputFile component?

[christophwille]

IBrowserFile.Size is telling me the on-disk file size as expected. IBrowserFile.OpenReadStream(8 * 1024 * 1024* 1024) (my current default max limit is 8GB) is giving me a Stream but... then trying to read from it doesn't return anything (no need to upload to Azure, my ReadAsync sample from above is fully sufficient to exhibit the problem - no bytes read)

[javiercn]

@christophwille thanks for the additional details.

@TanayParikh since you are fiddling with this area, can you give this a try? (Both with the improved implementation and with the old implementation in 5.0)

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[TanayParikh]

@TanayParikh since you are fiddling with this area, can you give this a try? (Both with the improved implementation and with the old implementation in 5.0)

Looks like we have a hard limit of Int32.MaxValue = 2147483647 bytes on the file size we can currently upload. This applies for Blazor WASM and Blazor Server. Compiling benchmarks of old vs new implementation and will update accordingly.

[christophwille]

Is there a chance to lift this limit in either a point relase for v5 or v6 (I am selfish, WASM-only would be fine)?

Edit: or make it configurable ("I know what I am doing"). But failing silently with 0 bytes is a very strange behavior.

[christophwille]

Will #33491 lift the limit mentioned in this issue or is this then still another different matter? (I'd be fine moving to Blazor 6 in this specific case, but if it is not gonna get lifted I need to switch to JavaScript)

[TanayParikh]

Will #33491 lift the limit mentioned in this issue or is this then still another different matter?

No unfortunately the limit remains after #33491. I'm investigating if there's a way for us to add in support for files > 2GB, will update here accordingly.

[TanayParikh]

I've put up a proof of concept on what it'd take to implement large file support: #33900

[christophwille]

Not having to resort to JS would be absolutely awesome!

[christophwille]

@TanayParikh What are the chances of this making it into preview7?

[TanayParikh]

@TanayParikh What are the chances of this making it into preview7?

That's still my target; need to merge the following PRs (pending review):

• Blazor WebAssembly & WebView JS to .NET Streaming Interop Support #33986
• Streaming Interop Followup Items #33916
• Blazor Server Large File Upload Support #33900

[christophwille]

@TanayParikh So this will ship in preview7 roughly mid-August, correct? For my understanding of how this will work: I can keep passing my desire max size to OpenReadStream and have nothing else to change, it will just work?

[TanayParikh]

So this will ship in preview7 roughly mid-August, correct?

Yep!

For my understanding of how this will work: I can keep passing my desire max size to OpenReadStream and have nothing else to change, it will just work?

Exactly, the transition to this new underlying implementation should be entirely seamless on your end. Let me know if you run into any issues 😄