have yet to try coffeescript. I know that this will compile to straight
javascript. But I am working with ExpressJS and I doubt that the following
code would work.
On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:34:37 PM UTC-4, Gustavo Machado wrote:
>
> Maybe this can help. When trying to use ajax uploader and also plain
> forms, I found that I had to do something like this it's coffeescript):
>
> if req.xhr
> req.tempFile = path.join(tmp.tmpdir, req.header("x-file-name"))
> writer = fs.createWriteStream(req.tempFile)
> req.pipe writer
> writer.on "close", () ->
> next()
> else
> req.tempFile = req.files[Object.keys(req.files)[0]]
> next()
>
> Hope it helps!
> Gus
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:09 PM, BlondAngelNYC <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> I built a restful server based on express (and express relies on
>> formidable). I used this form to perform my test:
>> <form action="/docxv" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
>> <input type="submit" value="Upload">
>> <input type="file" name="uploadfile">
>> </form>
>>
>> However customer wants the REST client to send the file to the restful
>> server *WITHOUT* using multipart/form-data. So I changed the form to be
>> this:
>> <form action="/docxv" method="post">
>> <input type="submit" value="Upload">
>> <input type="file" name="uploadfile">
>> </form>
>>
>> That way, the form is sent as UUEncoded instead of multipart.
>>
>> My restful server javascript code (I am listing only the important bits):
>> var app = express();
>> app.configure(function () {
>> app.use(express.bodyParser({keepExtensions: true, hash:'md5' }));
>> app.use(express.methodOverride());
>> app.use(app.router);
>> app.use(express.static(path.join(application_root, "public")));
>> app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true
>> }));
>> });
>> //router POST /docxv (upload a file and generate a new ID)
>> app.post(uploadform, function (req, res){
>> uploadfileMultipart(req, res, 0);
>> });
>> //start the server.
>> app.listen(port);
>> logger.info('Server running on port ' + port);
>> //from POST router
>> function uploadfileMultipart(req, res, id) {
>> var keys = Object.keys(req.files);
>> var currentFile = req.files[keys[0]];
>> var data = fs.readFileSync(currentFile.path,, 'base64');
>> //...etc...
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> The problem is -- when changing from multipart to non-multipart, the
>> req.files parameter no longers works correctly. So, I was thinking that I
>> should try to get the raw data from request but I don't have an easy way to
>> do that... However I found tantalizing tidbits but no solid examples. One
>> such tidbit:
>>
>> http://steelballsafety.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/express-rawbody/
>> So I added that to my code like this within the app.configure snippet:
>> app.configure(function () {
>> app.use(function(req, res, next) {
>> var data='';
>> req.setEncoding('utf8');
>> req.on('data', function(chunk) {
>> data += chunk;
>> });
>> req.on('end', function() {
>> req.rawBody=data;
>> next();
>> });
>> });
>> app.use(app.router);
>> app.use(express.static(path.join(application_root, "public")));
>> app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true
>> }));
>> });
>>
>> Unfortunately, when running this, either it hangs (when
>> using UUEncode) or that req.rawBody is undefined (when using multipart). I
>> am a noob, and I *did* search but not much luck. I know about the
>> incoming.onForm function, but there are no solid examples for me to follow
>> while using ExpressJS (which in turn uses Formidable).
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
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