I've already seen Uploading images using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose but I'm using an MVC architecture with ExpressJS. In my app.coffee, I'm doing:
app.configure(function() {
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(form({
keepExtensions: true
}));
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(express.methodOverride());
app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(express.session(sessionVariables));
app.use(app.router);
return app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
});
And in my controller method, I'm doing:
exports.uploadCustomersApi = function(req, res) {
return console.log(req);
};
But there appears to be no form element of req. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
EDIT: POSTING MY req object
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socket: [Circular],
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writable: true,
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remoteAddress: '127.0.0.1',
remotePort: 59808,
server:
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connections: 6,
allowHalfOpen: true,
watcher: [Object],
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httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
cache: [Object],
settings: [Object],
redirects: {},
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dynamicViewHelpers: [Object],
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route: '/',
routes: [Object],
router: [Getter],
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type: 'tcp4',
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readable: true,
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server: [Object],
ondrain: [Function],
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_idleNext: [Object],
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ondata: [Function],
onend: [Function],
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_idleNext: [Circular],
_idlePrev: [Object],
callback: [Function] },
_idleStart: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:45:07 GMT,
_events:
{ timeout: [Function],
error: [Function],
close: [Function] },
ondata: [Function],
onend: [Function],
_httpMessage:
{ output: [],
outputEncodings: [],
writable: true,
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shouldKeepAlive: true,
useChunkedEncodingByDefault: true,
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finished: false,
socket: [Circular],
connection: [Circular],
_events: [Object],
_headers: [Object],
_headerNames: [Object],
app: [Object],
req: [Circular],
writeHead: [Function],
end: [Function] } },
httpVersion: '1.1',
complete: true,
headers:
{ host: 'localhost:3000',
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1',
accept: 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
'accept-language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5',
'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
'accept-charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7',
connection: 'keep-alive',
'x-requested-with': 'XMLHttpRequest',
'x-file-name': 'lostCustomerList_1.csv',
'content-type': 'application/octet-stream',
referer: 'http://localhost:3000/client/wizard/customers',
'content-length': '12278',
cookie: 'wheel.cookie=BtKegWh26m5yNfrjnjN3h2sY.NgfTHkJ%2Fu3OenPY3euXHlU%2B818cUtqI2jyp%2FAQrcxI4',
pragma: 'no-cache',
'cache-control': 'no-cache' },
trailers: {},
readable: false,
url: '/api/client/wizard/uploadCustomers?qqfile=lostCustomerList_1.csv',
method: 'POST',
statusCode: null,
client:
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type: 'tcp4',
allowHalfOpen: true,
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{ socket: [Circular],
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destroyed: false,
readable: true,
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_writeQueueCallbacks: [],
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{ socket: [Circular],
callback: [Function: onWritable] },
writable: true,
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_readImpl: [Function],
_shutdownImpl: [Function],
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remotePort: 59808,
server:
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watcher: [Object],
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cache: [Object],
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server: [Object],
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callback: [Function] },
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socket: [Circular],
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_headers: [Object],
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app: [Object],
req: [Circular],
writeHead: [Function],
end: [Function] } },
httpVersionMajor: 1,
httpVersionMinor: 1,
upgrade: false,
originalUrl: '/api/client/wizard/uploadCustomers?qqfile=lostCustomerList_1.csv',
query: { qqfile: 'lostCustomerList_1.csv' },
app:
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[Object],
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[Object],
[Object],
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_events:
{ request: [Function],
connection: [Function: connectionListener],
listening: [Function] },
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
cache: { false: [Object] },
settings:
{ env: 'development',
hints: true,
views: '/Users/shamoon/Sites/rtem/views',
'view engine': 'ejs' },
redirects: {},
isCallbacks: {},
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dynamicViewHelpers: { session: [Function], flash: [Function] },
errorHandlers: [],
route: '/',
routes:
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routes: [Object],
params: {},
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middleware: [Function] },
router: [Getter],
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type: 'tcp4',
fd: 9 },
res:
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writable: true,
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finished: false,
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server: [Object],
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onend: [Function],
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connection:
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allowHalfOpen: true,
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readable: true,
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_writeWatcher: [Object],
writable: true,
_writeImpl: [Function],
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remoteAddress: '127.0.0.1',
remotePort: 59808,
server: [Object],
ondrain: [Function],
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_idleNext: [Object],
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_events: [Object],
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onend: [Function],
_httpMessage: [Circular] },
_events: { finish: [Function] },
_headers: { 'x-powered-by': 'Express' },
_headerNames: { 'x-powered-by': 'X-Powered-By' },
app:
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allowHalfOpen: true,
watcher: [Object],
_events: [Object],
httpAllowHalfOpen: false,
cache: [Object],
settings: [Object],
redirects: {},
isCallbacks: {},
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errorHandlers: [],
route: '/',
routes: [Object],
router: [Getter],
__usedRouter: true,
type: 'tcp4',
fd: 9 },
req: [Circular],
writeHead: [Function],
end: [Function] },
next: [Function: next],
body: {},
originalMethod: 'POST',
cookies: { 'wheel.cookie': 'BtKegWh26m5yNfrjnjN3h2sY.NgfTHkJ/u3OenPY3euXHlU+818cUtqI2jyp/AQrcxI4' },
sessionStore:
{ db:
{ databaseName: 'rtem',
serverConfig: [Object],
options: {},
native_parser: undefined,
bson_serializer: [Object],
bson_deserializer: [Object],
state: 'connected',
pkFactory: [Object],
forceServerObjectId: false,
operationTimeout: 1000,
strict: false,
notReplied: {},
isInitializing: true,
auths: [],
logger: [Object],
slaveOk: false,
tag: 1324233903416,
_mongodbHandlers: [Object],
eventHandlers: [Object],
serializeFunctions: false,
raw: false,
retryMiliSeconds: 5000,
numberOfRetries: 5,
reaperInterval: 1000,
reaperTimeout: 30000,
reaperIntervalId: [Object] },
db_collection_name: 'sessions',
_get_collection: [Function],
hash: [Function],
generate: [Function],
collection:
{ db: [Object],
collectionName: 'sessions',
opts: {},
slaveOk: false,
serializeFunctions: false,
raw: false,
pkFactory: [Object],
hint: [Getter/Setter] } },
sessionID: 'BtKegWh26m5yNfrjnjN3h2sY.NgfTHkJ/u3OenPY3euXHlU+818cUtqI2jyp/AQrcxI4',
_events: { data: [Function], end: [Function] },
session:
{ lastAccess: 1324233907666,
cookie:
{ path: '/',
httpOnly: true,
_expires: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:45:05 GMT,
originalMaxAge: 14399999 },
flash: {},
authenticator:
{ _id: '4ee4e47e66634f503b11ecad',
email: 'test@test.com',
name: 'test',
password: 'test',
addedOn: '2011-12-18T16:55:40.003Z',
client: [Object],
status: 'client' } },
_route_index: 6,
route:
{ path: '/api/client/wizard/uploadCustomers',
method: 'post',
callbacks: [ [Function] ],
keys: [],
regexp: /^\/api\/client\/wizard\/uploadCustomers\/?$/i,
params: [] },
params: [] }
This module is now deprecated and will eventually be removed, Connect >= 1.8.0 bodyParser() supports multipart/form-data, populating req.body much like application/json. An alternative to the core's bodyParser() is parted.
connect-form is deprecated. Use the body parser, it understands multipart/form-data.
Specifically, bodyParser will write to req.files. Go read the bodyParser example