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EugVal
EugVal

Reputation: 233

File upload and download using meteor

I am new to Meteor and web development in general, what I would like to achieve for my meteor web-app is the following:

All the information I found regarding this either deprecated, referring to collectionFS, or too specific/for a niche problem.This has proven more complicated than the issue appears to be!

What i would be looking for is either a tutorial-like guide explaining how to do so or some code snippets that would help get set-up for achieving the mentioned functionality.

EDIT

I have managed to upload files using the package tomi:meteor-upload . This then creates a /.uploads folder where my files are uploaded to.

When I try to download them from the client however using <a href="/.uploads/myfilename" download target="_blank">Download</a>, I get that the files downloaded are damaged!

I also tried by uploading them to a /public folder than the /.uploads folder, but still having the same issue.

This is seen here, but no solution has been found, even if I chmod 777 my files manually I get the problem!

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1261

Answers (1)

Al Francis
Al Francis

Reputation: 333

You can try busboy https://github.com/mscdex/busboy :

this.route('/upload', {
   where: 'server',
   method: 'POST',
   name:'upload',
   onBeforeAction: (function (req, res, next) {
    //busboy code here 
    var busboy = new Busboy({ headers: req.headers });
    busboy.on('file', function(fieldname, file, filename, encoding, mimetype) {
       console.log('File [' + fieldname + ']: filename: ' + filename + ',    encoding: ' + encoding + ', mimetype: ' + mimetype);
       file.on('data', function(data) {
       console.log('File [' + fieldname + '] got ' + data.length + ' bytes');
    });
    file.on('end', function() {
        console.log('File [' + fieldname + '] Finished');
    });
   });
   busboy.on('field', function(fieldname, encoding, mimetype) {
    console.log('Field [' + fieldname + ']: value: ' + inspect(val));
   });
   busboy.on('finish', function() {
    console.log('Done parsing form!');
    res.writeHead(303, { Connection: 'close', Location: '/' });
    res.end();
    next();
  });
  req.pipe(busboy);
});

you can use file.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(saveTo));

and the saveTo is the path you where upload, example: C:/media/ , and try to create ang Path of the link example: localhost:80/media/image-here.png use method to store these link in your database, you can use APACHE for File hosting.

Upvotes: 0

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