Going nuts trying to get past this. Should be trivial, but I'm obviously doing something stupid. Goal is to upload a file inside Express. In short request.files is coming back as undefined in my route handler :
//modules ==========================================
// ExpressJS 4.0 used for the middleware and web framework
var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var session = require('express-session');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var flash = require('connect-flash');
var jsxml = require("node-jsxml");
var XMLWriter = require('xml-writer');
var request = require("request");
var fs = require('fs');
var app = express();
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
// Did I screw this up??!
app.use(bodyParser({keepExtensions:true,uploadDir: __dirname + '/public/uploads'}));
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
app.use(cookieParser('Ronaldinho'));
app.use(session());
app.use(flash());
My file system:
Here's the form where a file is submitted (via a plugin called DropZone):
<div id="dropzone">
<form action="/uploads" name="upload" class="dropzone" id="demo-upload" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<input type="file" name="theFile" />
</form>
</div>
and the handler for the route:
app.post('/uploads', function (request, response) {
console.log('arrived');
console.log('1st TEST: ' + (request.files));
console.log('2nd TEST: ' + request.files.theFile.name);
fs.readFile(request.files.theFile.path, function (err, data) {
var newPath = "/home/path/to/your/directory/"+request.files.theFile.name;
console.log (newPath);
fs.writeFile(newPath, data, function (err) {
res.send("hi");
});
});
});
I hit the function above every time I upload a file, but find that request.files is undefined. Here's the result on the console (I'm using Brackets - interesting to me that I never even see the second test hit the console window...):
Any ideas what I'm screwing up?
