shaify-upload

multer | node express file upload | grab as buffer, delete and give sha-256 as filename | (storage in mongoDB)

common mime-types

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types/Common_types

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage

Installation

$ npm i shaify-upload

Features

• Upload files based on multer as formdata
• Upload as binary as fallback
• Grab file as buffer
• Delete file
• Output sha-256 as option for filename
• DB Storage later

Usage in nodejs Express Middleware

//Init class
const service = require('shaify-upload')
const _service = new service({
    uploadPath: './uploads',
    allowedMimeTypes:['application/pdf'],
    mb:8 //max filesize in mb (default 8)
    })

//Express middleware
app.post('/upload', _service.upload.single('file'), async (req, res) => {
    if (!req.file) { //upload as binary
        try{
            return await _service.uploadFileChunk(req, res)
        } catch (error) {
            return res.status(400).send('No file uploaded.');
        }
    }
    try {
        const shaify = await _service.shaify(req.file)
        res.status(200).json(shaify);
    } catch (error) {
        console.error('Error during file upload:', error);
        res.status(500).json({ error: 'Internal Server Error' });
    }
});

shaify response to API

{
  fieldname: 'file',
  originalname: 'originalname.pdf',
  encoding: '7bit',
  mimetype: 'application/pdf',
  destination: './uploads',
  filename: '1705058395505.pdf',
  path: 'uploads\\1705058395505.pdf',
  size: 456797,
  buffer: '<Buffer ... 456747 more bytes>',
  sha: '2b8bc6091bc03280d398304904104f274cb7eeab31fb1dfd94f37009c1edf8e7',
  deleted: true,
  sortsize: '446 KB'
}

Upload files

• Upload as formdata (recomended)

  const options = {
  "method": "POST",
  "hostname": "localhost",
  "port": "3000",
  "path": "/upload",
  "headers": {
      "Accept": "*/*",
      "User-Agent": "Thunder Client (https://www.thunderclient.com)",
      "content-type": "multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001"
  }
  };

• Upload as binary (fallback), file-name in header as an option

  const options = {
  "method": "POST",
  "hostname": "localhost",
  "port": "3000",
  "path": "/upload",
  "headers": {
      "Accept": "*/*",
      "User-Agent": "Thunder Client (https://www.thunderclient.com)",
      "file-name": "my_file.pdf",
      "Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"
  }
  };