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Tri Nguyen
Tri Nguyen

Reputation: 1808

Nodejs - cannot upload file using multer via ajax

I have a form which contains both text fields and an input file field. For some reasons, all the data went through without any error but the file. Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks.

index.ejs

<form enctype='multipart/form-data' onsubmit="create_ajax('/create_restaurant')">
    <input type="file" id="restaurantProfilePicture" name="restaurantPicture" accept="images/*"><br>

Front end Javascript

function create_ajax(url) {
var formArray= $("form").serializeArray();
var data={};
for (index in formArray){
    data[formArray[index].name]= formArray[index].value;
}

$.ajax({
    url: url ,
    data: data,
    dataType: 'json',
    type: 'POST',
    success: function (dataR) {
        console.log(dataR)
        if (dataR.hasOwnProperty('message')){
            document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = dataR.message;
        }else{
            window.location.replace('/restaurant?restaurantid=' + dataR.restaurant_ID);
        }
    },
    error: function (xhr, status, error) {
        console.log('Error: ' + error.message);
    }
});
event.preventDefault();
}

Back-end, route/index.js

var multer = require('multer');
var restaurantProfileName = "";

var storageRestaurantProfile = multer.diskStorage({
    destination: function (req, file, cb) {
        cb(null, './public/images/restaurant_profile_images')
    },
    filename: function (req, file, cb) {
        // random token generation to avoid duplicated file name
        var random_token = "";
        var possible = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
        for (var i = 0; i < 11; i++){
            random_token += possible.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * possible.length));
        }
        restaurantProfileName = random_token + "-" + Date.now() + path.extname(file.originalname); // get file extension
        cb(null, restaurantProfileName)
    }
})

var restaurantProfileUpload = multer({ storage: storageRestaurantProfile });

router.post('/create_restaurant', restaurantProfileUpload.single("restaurantPicture"), function (req, res) {

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2198

Answers (1)

Musa
Musa

Reputation: 97717

To upload files via ajax you use a FormData object, just pass the form you want to upload to the constructor and set contentType and processData to false in $.ajax.

function create_ajax(url) {
    var fd = new FormData($("form").get(0));    
    $.ajax({
        url: url ,
        data: fd,
        dataType: 'json',
        type: 'POST',
        processData: false,
        contentType: false,
        success: function (dataR) {
            console.log(dataR)
            if (dataR.hasOwnProperty('message')){
                document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = dataR.message;
            }else{
                window.location.replace('/restaurant?restaurantid=' + dataR.restaurant_ID);
            }
        },
        error: function (xhr, status, error) {
            console.log('Error: ' + error.message);
        }
    });
    event.preventDefault();
}

Upvotes: 5

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