I'm making slow but steady progress in learning Deno and Oak but this has me stumped. I have a simple web form with a file upload field:
<form method="post" action="/quote" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label>Author:
<input type="text" name="author" />
</label>
<label>file: <input type="file" name="myfile" multiple />
</label>
<label>Quote:
<textarea name="quote"></textarea>
</label>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
The processing is done with Deno and Oak and here is the script that handles the text data:
router.post('/quote', async context => {
const body = context.request.body({ type: 'form' })
const value = await body.value
const author = value.get('author')
console.log(author)
context.response.redirect(`/?author=${author}`)
})
The route can handle a form which does not have an encoding of multipart/form-data
but as soon as I add that, the author
field is undefined
.
My question is: how can I access the data from this form (both the text and file data)?
Here's an update for Oak 16+, and how to save the file on the server. The syntax seems to have changed quite a bit for some things.
I have routing set up with
import { Router } from "jsr:@oak/oak@16";
const router = new Router();
import handlers from "./requestHandlers.ts";
router
.post("/upload", handlers.handleUpload);
And then in my request handlers (I have UPLOAD_PATH defined as a constant elsewhere):
handleUpload: async ({ request, response }: { request: any; response: any }) => {
const theBody: Body = await request.body;
const form: FormData = await theBody.formData()
const theFile: File = form.get("file") as File;
const destPath = `${config.UPLOAD_PATH}${theFile.name}`;
const fileData = await theFile.stream()
Deno.writeFile(destPath, fileData);
response.body = `Uploaded file size: ${theFile.size}`;
}