Node JS read Form Data

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 3 years ago

 

I want to send some attributes and a file to a Node JS application with multipart/form-data.

Client HTML Form:

<input id="picName" name="picName" class="form-control" placeholder="PicTitle..." style="border-radius: 1%; margin: 1%" type="name">
<form id="frmUploader" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/post/picture/" method="post">
<input id="file" type="file" name="picUploader" multiple /><br>
<input class="btn btn-md btn-success" type="submit" name="submit" id="btnSubmit" value="Upload" /><br>
form>

Client JS:

$('#frmUploader').submit(function () {
      var username = localStorage.getItem("userName");
      var categoryName = $( "#categoryAddPic option:selected").text();
      var picTitle = $('#picName').val();

          var picture = $('input[name="picUploader"]').get(0).files[0];
          var formData = new FormData();
          formData.append('picture', picture);
          formData.append('username', username);
          formData.append('categoryName', categoryName);
          formData.append('picTitle', picTitle);

            $.ajax({
                method: 'POST',
                url: 'http://localhost:3000/post/picture',
                data: formData,
                headers:{
                    "Authorization": "bearer " + token
                },success:function (respond) {
                    ...
            });
        }
        return false;
    });

Now I want to save the data of the form in my Node application. If it is necessary to know too, I´m using multer for saving the file on the server.

Thanks for help.

PS: The node version is 4.8.3

Node JS:

app.post('/post/picture',function (req, res, next) {

var picName = req
                                                
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manpreet 3 years ago

When using a FormData object with jQuery.ajax, you have to set processData to false so that jQuery will not try to encode the FormData object and contentType to false so that jQuery will not set any content type headers. When FormData is used with ajax the proper content type header is generated for you.

     $.ajax({
            method: 'POST',
            url: 'http://localhost:3000/post/picture',
            data: formData,
            processData: false,
            contentType: false,
            headers:{
                "Authorization": "bearer " + token
            },
            success:function (respond) {
                ...
            });
    }

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