How to override Sanitizer maxLength for textareas?

[The Amazing Hanna]

Hi!

I'm building an application that contains a large number of text documents. It's a wiki style site where users can add documentation.

I thought I'd use the textarea field (with CKEditor), but it seems like the Sanitizer class automatically truncates any value to a maximum of 16384 characters. I'd like to increase this a bit as it seems possible that text documents could well be longer than this.

Is there any way to change the limit without making a custom fieldtype or directly changing the Sanitizer class?

If I make a custom fieldtype, how would I go about increasing the Sanitizer limit?

[adrian]

This has been discussed a bit already:

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/6771-max-size-textarea-field/

Not really sure why that limit as added to the sanitizer - perhaps file a github issue for Ryan to see if he might remove it, or make it configurable up to the 65,535 bytes that a MySQL text field can handle.