Node/Express file upload
I'm using node v0.10.26 and express v4.2.0 and I'm pretty new to node. I've been beating my head against my desk for the past three or so hours trying to get a file upload form working with node. At this point I'm just trying to get req.files to not return undefined. My view looks like this
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>{{ title }}</title>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='/stylesheets/style.css' />
</head>
<body>
<h1>{{ title }}</h1>
<p>Welcome to {{ title }}</p>
<form method='post' action='upload' enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type='file' name='fileUploaded'>
<input type='submit'>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Here are my routes
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.render('index', { title: 'Express' });
});
router.post('/upload', function(req, res){
console.log(req.files);
});
module.exports = router;
And here's my app.js
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('static-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var routes = require('./routes/index');
var users = require('./routes/users');
var app = express();
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'hjs');
app.use(favicon());
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded());
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use('/', routes);
app.use('/users', users);
/// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
var err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
next(err);
});
/// error handlers
// development error handler
// will print stacktrace
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}
// production error handler
// no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: {}
});
});
module.exports = app;
I saw somewhere that including methodOverride() and bodyParser({keepExtensions:true,uploadDir:path}) was supposed to help but I can't even launch my server if I add those lines.
Answer
ExpressJS Issue:
Most of the middleware is removed from express 4. check out: http://www.github.com/senchalabs/connect#middleware For multipart middleware like busboy, busboy-connect, formidable, flow, parted is needed.
This example works using connect-busboy middleware.
create /img and /public folders.
Use the folder structure:
\server.js
\img\"where stuff is uploaded to"
\public\index.html
SERVER.JS
var express = require('express'); //Express Web Server
var busboy = require('connect-busboy'); //middleware for form/file upload
var path = require('path'); //used for file path
var fs = require('fs-extra'); //File System - for file manipulation
var app = express();
app.use(busboy());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
/* ==========================================================
Create a Route (/upload) to handle the Form submission
(handle POST requests to /upload)
Express v4 Route definition
============================================================ */
app.route('/upload')
.post(function (req, res, next) {
var fstream;
req.pipe(req.busboy);
req.busboy.on('file', function (fieldname, file, filename) {
console.log("Uploading: " + filename);
//Path where image will be uploaded
fstream = fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/img/' + filename);
file.pipe(fstream);
fstream.on('close', function () {
console.log("Upload Finished of " + filename);
res.redirect('back'); //where to go next
});
});
});
var server = app.listen(3030, function() {
console.log('Listening on port %d', server.address().port);
});
INDEX.HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" ng-app="APP">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>angular file upload</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method='post' action='upload' enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type='file' name='fileUploaded'>
<input type='submit'>
</body>
</html>
The following will work with formidable SERVER.JS
var express = require('express'); //Express Web Server
var bodyParser = require('body-parser'); //connects bodyParsing middleware
var formidable = require('formidable');
var path = require('path'); //used for file path
var fs =require('fs-extra'); //File System-needed for renaming file etc
var app = express();
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
/* ==========================================================
bodyParser() required to allow Express to see the uploaded files
============================================================ */
app.use(bodyParser({defer: true}));
app.route('/upload')
.post(function (req, res, next) {
var form = new formidable.IncomingForm();
//Formidable uploads to operating systems tmp dir by default
form.uploadDir = "./img"; //set upload directory
form.keepExtensions = true; //keep file extension
form.parse(req, function(err, fields, files) {
res.writeHead(200, {'content-type': 'text/plain'});
res.write('received upload:\n\n');
console.log("form.bytesReceived");
//TESTING
console.log("file size: "+JSON.stringify(files.fileUploaded.size));
console.log("file path: "+JSON.stringify(files.fileUploaded.path));
console.log("file name: "+JSON.stringify(files.fileUploaded.name));
console.log("file type: "+JSON.stringify(files.fileUploaded.type));
console.log("astModifiedDate: "+JSON.stringify(files.fileUploaded.lastModifiedDate));
//Formidable changes the name of the uploaded file
//Rename the file to its original name
fs.rename(files.fileUploaded.path, './img/'+files.fileUploaded.name, function(err) {
if (err)
throw err;
console.log('renamed complete');
});
res.end();
});
});
var server = app.listen(3030, function() {
console.log('Listening on port %d', server.address().port);
});