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Gakho
Gakho

Reputation: 673

Convert multer file to string

I'm using multer to read in multi-part form data. However, I don't actually want to upload it. I want to put its contents into a string. Is there a simple way to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3117

Answers (1)

mscdex
mscdex

Reputation: 106736

Non-file fields are not stored on disk when you use multer's DiskStorage (the default storage type).

However, if you want files to be stored in memory too, then you need to use multer's MemoryStorage which will store files as Buffers, which you can then convert to string if you like:

var storage = multer.memoryStorage();
var upload = multer({ storage: storage });

// ...

app.post('/profile', upload.single('aboutme'), function(req, res) {
  console.log(req.file.buffer);
});

Upvotes: 2

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