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whonoes
whonoes

Reputation: 503

Laravel - file path to UploadedFile instance

I have a Laravel 4.2 API that, when creating a resource, accepts file uploads. The file is retrieved with Input::file('file')

Now I want to write a script (also in Laravel) that will batch create some resources (so I can't use a HTML form that POSTs to API's endpoint). How can I translate a file path into an instance of UploadedFile so that Input::file('file') will pick it up in the API?

Upvotes: 15

Views: 27299

Answers (3)

Darkproduct
Darkproduct

Reputation: 1237

Here for Laravel 8.x based on Alexandre Thebaldi's answer:

use Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem;
use Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile;

/**
 * Create an UploadedFile object from absolute path 
 *
 * @param     string $path
 * @param     bool $test default true
 * @return    object(Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile)
 * 
 * Based of Alexandre Thebaldi answer here:
 * https://stackoverflow.com/a/32258317/6411540
 */
public function pathToUploadedFile( $path, $test = true ) {
    $filesystem = new Filesystem;
    
    $name = $filesystem->name( $path );
    $extension = $filesystem->extension( $path );
    $originalName = $name . '.' . $extension;
    $mimeType = $filesystem->mimeType( $path );
    $error = null;

    return new UploadedFile( $path, $originalName, $mimeType, $error, $test );
}

Upvotes: 5

Cody Caughlan
Cody Caughlan

Reputation: 32748

Just construct an instance yourself. The API is:

http://api.symfony.com/2.0/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/File/UploadedFile.html

So you should be able to do:

$file = new UploadedFile(
    '/absolute/path/to/file',
    'original-name.gif',
    'image/gif',
    1234,
    null,
    TRUE
);

Notice: You have to specify the 6th constructing parameter as TRUE, so the UploadedFile class knows that you're uploading the image via unit testing environment.

Upvotes: 20

Alexandre Demelas
Alexandre Demelas

Reputation: 4690

  /**
   * Create an UploadedFile object from absolute path 
   *
   * @static
   * @param     string $path
   * @param     bool $public default false
   * @return    object(Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\UploadedFile)
   * @author    Alexandre Thebaldi
   */

  public static function pathToUploadedFile( $path, $public = false )
  {
    $name = File::name( $path );

    $extension = File::extension( $path );

    $originalName = $name . '.' . $extension;

    $mimeType = File::mimeType( $path );

    $size = File::size( $path );

    $error = null;

    $test = $public;

    $object = new UploadedFile( $path, $originalName, $mimeType, $size, $error, $test );

    return $object;
  }

Upvotes: 8

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