Working with expressjs for about a month by now I have stumbled across the problem of file uploads. Despite consulting Google & various blogs I have failed finding an answer to the following three questions:
What do I have to do / what settings for bodyParser do I have to choose in order to:
Make sure there was indeed a file uploaded (currently, when submitting the form without choosing a file an empty file gets created).
Where can I specify a value for the maxium size a file is allowed to have?
How can I omit the renaming of the file?
Currently I am including bodyParser in my express (v. 3.0.0) app with the following option:
{keepExtensions: true, uploadDir: __dirname + '/public/uploads'}
I recently ran into a similar problem.
for Question #2, check http://www.senchalabs.org/connect/middleware-limit.html
app.use(express.limit('4M')); // in your app.configure()
app.post('/upload', function(req, res) {
var fs = require('fs'),
file = req.files.myfile; //your file field;
if(file.size === 0) { // question #1
fs.unlinkSync(file.path);
res.redirect('/error?');
} else { //question #3
var fn = file.path.split('/');
fs.rename(file.path, file.path.replace(fn[fn.length-1], file.name));
res.redirect('/success?');
}
});
About your concern
Make sure there was indeed a file uploaded (currently, when submitting
the form without choosing a file an empty file gets created).
After long search I found a great solution
First you need to install
node-formidable
Then after including the library, to check if file uploaded in the first place
var form = new formidable.IncomingForm();
form.parse(req, function(err, fields, files) {
if (Object.keys(files).length !== 0) {
console.log("File is exist")
} else {
console.log("File is not exist")
}
});
And about the size you can check this.
form.maxFieldsSize = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
Best regards.
Abdulaziz Noor