I'm a newbie to backend development in general. but I wanted to upload files to firebase and I came across this tedious tool called busboy which works fine when uploading files. the problem though I wanted to upload a file and extract informations within the req.body but I'm getting req.body undefined. here is my code
const Busboy = require("busboy");
const path = require("path");
const os = require("os");
const fs = require("fs");
const { admin, db, config } = require("../../util.js");
exports.postimage = async (req, res) => {
try {
const description = req.body.description;
const busboy = new Busboy({ headers: req.headers });
let name;
let image = {};
let url;
busboy.on("file", (fieldname, file, filename, encoding, mimetype) => {
if (mimetype !== "image/png") {
return res.status(400).json({
error: "This extension is not supported. Please upload a png image",
});
}
const extension = filename.split(".").pop();
name = `${Math.round(Math.random() * 10000000000000)}.${extension}`;
const filepath = path.join(os.tmpdir(), name);
image = { filepath, mimetype };
file.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filepath));
});
busboy.on("finish", async () => {
await admin
.storage()
.bucket()
.upload(image.filepath, {
resumable: false,
metadata: {
metadata: {
contentType: image.mimetype,
},
},
});
url = `https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/${config.storageBucket}/o/${name}?alt=media`;
await db.collection("images").add({
url,
description,
createdAt: new Date().toISOString(),
});
return res.json({ meassage: "uploaded" });
});
busboy.end(req.rawBody);
} catch (e) {
return res
.status(500)
.json({ error: `Error, could not upload file: ${e}` });
}
};
Edit: the problem might be from the postman side which doesn't allow to send multipart and JSON data at once
I ended up using this workaround to achieve what I've been looking for
1- in your postman use body > formdata. and then put as many fields as you want by filling the key/value areas
2- in your in the code in the top of try{} I add this const body = {} and after you use this code snippet
busboy.on(
"field",
function (
fieldname,
val,
fieldnameTruncated,
valTruncated,
encoding,
mimetype
) {
body[fieldname] = val;
}
);
finally, you can add in collection like this
await db.collection("images").add({
url,
description: body.description,
});