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Streaming connect middleware for uploading files to Amazon S3.

Uses the awesome AwsSum for Amazon Web Services goodness.

How to get it

$ npm -d install connect-stream-s3

You should get at least v0.6.0 so you get the ability to set extra options. See below.

Example

var express = require('express');
var streamS3 = require('../connect-stream-s3');
var amazonS3 = require('awssum-amazon-s3');

// give each uploaded file a unique name (up to you to make sure they are unique, this is an example)
var uniquifyObjectNames = function(req, res, next) {
    for(var key in req.files) {
        req.files[key].s3ObjectName = '' + parseInt(Math.random(100000));
    }
    next();
}

// set up the connect-stream-s3 middleware
var s3StreamMiddleware = streamS3({
    accessKeyId     : process.env.ACCESS_KEY_ID,
    secretAccessKey : process.env.SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
    awsAccountId    : process.env.AWS_ACCOUNT_ID,
    region          : amazonS3.US_EAST_1,
    bucketName      : process.env.BUCKET_NAME,
    concurrency     : 2,
});

// create the app and paths
var app = module.exports = express.createServer();

app.use(express.bodyParser());

app.post('/upload', uniquifyObjectNames, s3StreamMiddleware, function(req, res, next) {
    for(var key in req.files) {
        console.log('File "' + key + '" uploaded as : ' + req.files[key].s3ObjectName);
    }
    res.redirect('/thanks');
});

Setting Upload Options per File

In your middleware which runs after bodyParser() and prior to connect-stream-s3, you can set a number of things which will be used in the PutObject.

• s3ObjectName
• s3ObjectCacheControl
• s3ObjectContentEncoding
• s3ObjectStorageClass
• s3ObjectAcl

For example:

var myS3Middlware = function(req, res, next) {
    for(var key in req.files) {
        req.files[key].s3ObjectName = '' + parseInt(Math.random(100000));

        // this file as reduced redundancy
        req.files[key].s3StorageClass = 'REDUCED_REDUNDANCY';

        // if this file is an image, cache it for a long time
        if ( req.files[key].name.match(/\.(jpg|png)$/) ) {
            req.files[key].s3CacheControl = 'max-age=864000, must-revalidate';
        }
    }
    next();
}

Setting the Uploaded ObjectName for your Bucket

connect-stream-s3 looks for an attribute on each of the req.files objects called s3ObjectName which you must set in some middleware before the streaming middleware is called. Therefore the order goes (as the example above shows):

express.bodyParser();
uniquifyObjectNames(); // sets s3ObjectName on each uploaded file
s3StreamMiddleware();

If you don't set s3ObjectName on each uploaded file, connect-stream-s3 will complain and call next() with an error, so make sure you set it to values appropriate to your application.

Note: connect-stream-s3 originally used the req.files[field].name field as a default but this really makes no sense at all and has the side-effect that if someone uploads a file with a filename the same as a previous one, it would get overwritten. I decided that having this as a default was bad, so you are forced to set s3ObjectName.

Middleware Options

accessKeyId

Required.

Specify your Amazon Access Key ID here.

secretAccessKey

Required.

Specify your Amazon Secret Access Key here.

awsAccountId

Required.

Specify your Amazon Account Id here.

region

Required.

Specify which region your bucket is in.

bucketName

Required.

Specify the bucket name to put each file into.

storageClass

Default: 'STANDARD'

If you don't provide the 'storageClass', then your object will be stored as normal using the 'STANDARD' storage class. If you do, you should set it to 'REDUCED_REDUNDANCY' and your object will be stored as that.

acl

Default: 'private'

Provide the canned Access Control List you want each uploaded file to. e.g.

Valid values: private | public-read | public-read-write | authenticated-read | bucket-owner-read | bucket-owner-full-control

(See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectPUT.html for the latest list.)

cacheControl

Provide a 'cacheControl' so you can specify caching on the uploaded files.

(See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectPUT.html for the latest list.)

concurrency

Default: 3

Shows how many files to upload in parrallel.

How Does it Work

connect-stream-s3 relies upon express.bodyParser() since it uses the req.files object. This object already contains pointers to the files on disk and it is these files that are being used when uploading to Amazon S3.

Many people ask about streaming directly to S3, but I'm probably not going to make this module do this, mainly for the reason that if the upload to S3 fails, you have no way of retrying. With connect-stream-s3, the file is still on disk and you can take precautions to retry it.

Reporting Issues, Bugs or Feature Requests

Let me know how you get on, whether you like it and if you encounter any problems:

• https://github.com/appsattic/connect-stream-s3/issues

Author

Written by: Andrew Chilton - Blog - Twitter.

License

The MIT License : http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Copyright (c) 2012 AppsAttic Ltd. http://appsattic.com/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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