Trying to send a blob object to my node server. On the client side I'm recording some audio using MediaRecorder and then I want to send the file to my server for processing.
saveButton.onclick = function(e, audio) {
var blobData = localStorage.getItem('recording');
console.log(blobData);
var fd = new FormData();
fd.append('upl', blobData, 'blobby.raw');
fetch('/api/test',
{
method: 'post',
body: fd
})
.then(function(response) {
console.log('done');
return response;
})
.catch(function(err){
console.log(err);
});
}
This is my express route, which uses multer:
var upload = multer({ dest: __dirname + '/../public/uploads/' });
var type = upload.single('upl');
app.post('/api/test', type, function (req, res) {
console.log(req.body);
console.log(req.file);
// do stuff with file
});
But my logs return nothing:
{ upl: '' }
undefined
Been spending a long time on this so any help appreciated!
I was just able to run a minimum configuration of your above example and it worked fine for me.
Server:
var express = require('express');
var multer = require('multer');
var app = express();
app.use(express.static('public')); // for serving the HTML file
var upload = multer({ dest: __dirname + '/public/uploads/' });
var type = upload.single('upl');
app.post('/api/test', type, function (req, res) {
console.log(req.body);
console.log(req.file);
// do stuff with file
});
app.listen(3000);
HTML file in public
:
<script>
var myBlob = new Blob(["This is my blob content"], {type : "text/plain"});
console.log(myBlob);
// here unnecessary - just for testing if it can be read from local storage
localStorage.myfile = myBlob;
var fd = new FormData();
fd.append('upl', localStorage.myfile, 'blobby.txt');
fetch('/api/test',
{
method: 'post',
body: fd
});
</script>
The console.log(myBlob);
on the frontend is printing Blob {size: 23, type: "text/plain"}
. The backend is printing:
{}
{ fieldname: 'upl',
originalname: 'blobby.txt',
encoding: '7bit',
mimetype: 'text/plain',
destination: '/var/www/test/public/uploads/',
filename: 'dc56f94d7ae90853021ab7d2931ad636',
path: '/var/www/test/public/uploads/dc56f94d7ae90853021ab7d2931ad636',
size: 23 }
Maybe also try it with a hard-coded Blob like in this example for debugging purposes.