I am at a loss of what I am doing wrong, here is what I have:
HTML
<html>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="/upload" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div class="field">
<label for="image">Image Upload</label>
<input type="file" name="image" id="image">
</div>
<input type="submit" class="btn" value="Save">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Port
5000 is my Node.js server's port.
In this example I am using POST
to /upload
, and it works fine.
module.exports = function(app, models) {
var fs = require('fs');
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var accessKeyId = process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY || "xxxxxx";
var secretAccessKey = process.env.AWS_SECRET_KEY || "+xxxxxx+B+xxxxxxx";
AWS.config.update({
accessKeyId: accessKeyId,
secretAccessKey: secretAccessKey
});
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
app.post('/upload', function(req, res){
var params = {
Bucket: 'makersquest',
Key: 'myKey1234.png',
Body: "Hello"
};
s3.putObject(params, function (perr, pres) {
if (perr) {
console.log("Error uploading data: ", perr);
} else {
console.log("Successfully uploaded data to myBucket/myKey");
}
});
});
}
Now I want to post the file that I am POST
ing, which is where the problem arises.
module.exports = function(app, models) {
var fs = require('fs');
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
var accessKeyId = process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY || "xxxxxx";
var secretAccessKey = process.env.AWS_SECRET_KEY || "+xxxxxx+B+xxxxxxx";
AWS.config.update({
accessKeyId: accessKeyId,
secretAccessKey: secretAccessKey
});
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
app.post('/upload', function(req, res){
var path = req.files.image.path;
fs.readFile(path, function(err, file_buffer){
var params = {
Bucket: 'makersquest',
Key: 'myKey1234.png',
Body: file_buffer
};
s3.putObject(params, function (perr, pres) {
if (perr) {
console.log("Error uploading data: ", perr);
} else {
console.log("Successfully uploaded data to myBucket/myKey");
}
});
});
});
}
The error I get is:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'path' of undefined
As a matter of fact files
is completely empty.
I am assuming I am missing something pretty obvious but I can't seem to find it.
Instead of multipart/form-data, you can try using image/png or whatever the correct mime type is.
Latest Answer @ Dec-2016 [New]
Use multer-s3 for multipart uploading to s3 without saving on local disk as:
Latest Answer @ Mar-2016 [Old-One]
Edited 1 use
multer@1.1.0
andmulter-s3@1.4.1
for following snippet:For complete running example clone express_multer_s3 repo and run
node app
.Sounds like you might not have the express bodyParser middleware setup. Can you post your entire server file (app.js, server.js, what have you)
You need something like multer in your set of middleware to handle
multipart/form-data
for you and populatereq.files
. From the doco:Now
req.files.image.path
should be populated in yourapp.post
function.This stack overflow was the best answer I found explaining exactly how to get Node to S3 working.
AWS Missing credentials when i try send something to my S3 Bucket (Node.js)
This in addition to some more stuff I had to hack on to get it all working. In my situation I was using a MEAN stack application so my Node file I was working with was a route file.
my aconfig.json file with the amazon credentials looks like this:
The final contents of the route file look like the file pasted below.
This took me a while to finally get working, but if you setup the route below, update the sampleFile JSON to point to a real file on your system and hit it with Postman it will publish a file to your S3 account.
Hope this helps
It looks like your req.files.image is undefined. console.log out what req.files.image returns and see if you can go from there.