Handling multipart form-data (file-uploads)

[harunhasdal]

Is there any guidance on which multipart parser to use with the generator for file uploads? Or a file upload endpoint generation option in the roadmap?

I've tried multer, multiparty, connect-busboy so far, but didn't have any success.

Having similar issues pointed out at #315

[harunhasdal]

Any of the above multupart parsers work, I needed to replace the express body-parser with the json and urlencoded ones.

I think this fix is already in place for the generator since the following commit. 8dc2f1e

[pasine]

Sorry @harunhasdal I have the same problem but I am not able to fix it neither with the new express configuration.
I am using multer and angular-file-upload.
The request looks fine (multipart-form, POST, parameters, etc.), but both body and files result empty on the server.
How did you fix it?

[harunhasdal]

I ended up using busboy, not as middleware though. I used busboy events to process the uploaded files instead of using as middleware and have req.files.

I couldn't make the middleware (neither busboy nor multer) to work alongside body-parser. It's either one or the other in my experience, but then again i might be wrong.

Best thing to do is to debug the request to see how these middleware interact in case you need to use multer.

[pasine]

The problem is that body-parser included in the generator is ad old version.
Updating it to "~1.5.0" solved the problem and made it run smooth with multer.
I haven't tried it with other middleware, but I guess it would be the same for them.
I'll fix this and submit a PR.
Thanks @harunhasdal for point me out to the solution.