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Sven0567
Sven0567

Reputation: 315

Cannot find all the data of my POSTed form?

I'm uploading a file from my webpage to my nodejs server, which already works. The file is inside a form, along with some other input values, that I cannot find how to read.

HTML

<form class="modal-content" method="POST" action="http://localhost:3000/testupload"  enctype="multipart/form-data" >
    <span class="close">&times;</span>
    <div class="modal-body">
        <input type="file" value="Upload file" name="file" id="input-upload">
        <input type="checkbox" value="Automatic Transcription" name="TESTCHECK">
        <div>
            <input type="checkbox" value="Automatic subtitling">
            <select name="testSelect">
                <option value="en-us">US English</option>
            </select>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="modal-footer">
        <button >Upload Media</button>
    </div>
</form>

nodejs

app.post("/testupload", (request, response, next) =>{
    let form = new formidable.IncomingForm();
    form.parse(request, function(err, fields, files){
        //console.log(fields);
        console.log(files.file.name); //Correctly gets the filename
        //further file upload code

    });
    console.log(request);
    response.end();
});

When I POST the form, I can get the file input back, but can't find the other inputs&values anywhere in the request.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

jcuypers
jcuypers

Reputation: 1794

According to the doc you can use events:

form.on('field', function(name, value) {
});

or

you could also reference directly via fields (as in the example on https://www.npmjs.com/package/formidable)

form.parse(req, function(err, fields, files) {
      res.writeHead(200, {'content-type': 'text/plain'});
      res.write('received upload:\n\n');
      res.end(util.inspect({fields: fields, files: files}));
    });

From what I understand you need to correctly name the form fields (first try with a simple example, one input text field).

Upvotes: 1

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