Form/file uploads with hapi.js

README.md

Demo of multipart form/file uploading with hapi.js.

Usage

npm install
npm run setup
npm run server

Then ...

npm run test

... or try:

curl --form file=@data.csv    \
     --form firstName=Melvin  \
     --form lastName=Mooney   \
     http://localhost:8080/submit

See also

Other multipart/form-data demos:

• hapi - serving various upload clients
• http - sans framework
• express

data.csv

package.json

{
  "name": "file-upload-demo",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "multipart form/file upload demo with hapi.js",
  "main": "server.js",
  "scripts": {
    "setup": "[ -d uploads ] || mkdir uploads",
    "test": "curl --form file=@data.csv --form user=Jones http://localhost:8080/submit",
    "server": "node server.js"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "multipart",
    "upload",
    "file",
    "form",
    "hapi",
    "demo"
  ],
  "author": "J. Voigt",
  "license": "BSD-2-Clause",
  "dependencies": {
    "hapi": "^17.5.4"
  }
}

server.js

const fs = require('fs');
const Hapi = require('hapi');

const server = Hapi.server({
    host: 'localhost', 
    port: Number(process.argv[2] || 8080)
});

server.route({
    method: 'POST',
    path: '/submit',
    handler: (request, h) => {

        const data = request.payload;
        if (data.file) {
            const name = data.file.hapi.filename;
            const path = __dirname + "/uploads/" + name;
            const file = fs.createWriteStream(path);

            file.on('error', (err) => console.error(err));

            data.file.pipe(file);

            data.file.on('end', (err) => { 
                const ret = {
                    filename: data.file.hapi.filename,
                    headers: data.file.hapi.headers
                }
                return JSON.stringify(ret);
            })
        }
        return 'ok';
    },
    options: {
        payload: {
            output: 'stream',
            parse: true,
            allow: 'multipart/form-data'
        }
    }
});

const init = async () => {

        await server.start();
        console.log(`Server running at: ${server.info.uri}`);
};

init();

updated code

	{
		method: "POST",
		path: "/upload",
		handler: clientController.postClientFile,
		config: {
			description: "Home",
			auth: false,
			payload: {
				maxBytes: 209715200,
				parse: true,
				allow: "multipart/form-data",
				multipart: { output: "stream" },
			},
		},
	},