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How to handle file upload if FormData when testing using Cypress?

I'm using VueJS and Cypress. I have a modal where I submit a FormData with different filled and a file:
var formData = new FormData();
formData.append("document_file", this.documentFile);
formData.append("comments", this.comments.value);
...
They way I upload it:
this.$http.post('http://localhost:8081/api/upload',formData,{emulateJSON: true},{
header:{ "Content-Type":"multipart/form-data" },
}).then(function(response) {
// ... Code
}).catch((err) => {
// .. Code
});
}
I want to use Cypress to test the params. Now, when I don't use the document file in the formData, I have the following methods to parse the multipart/form-data; boundary=---:
function parse(request) {
console.log("request");
console.log(request);
const headers = request.headers;
const body = request.body;
const content_type = headers['content-type'];
expect(content_type, 'boundary').to.match(/^multipart\/form-data; boundary=/);
const boundary = content_type.split('boundary=')[1];
const values = p(boundary, body);
return values;
}
function p(boundary, body) {
expect(boundary, 'boundary').to.be.a('string');
expect(body, 'body').to.be.a('string');
const parts = body.split(`--${boundary}`).map((s) => s.trim()).filter((s) => s.startsWith('Content-Disposition: form-data;'));
const result = {};
parts.forEach((part) => {
const lines = part.split(/\r?\n/g);
const key = lines[0].match(/name="(.+)"/)[1];
result[key] = (lines.length >= 2) ? lines[2].trim() : "";
});
return result;
}
Which work great. But when I upload the file, I get a different request.body:
They way I'm trying to test:
cy.get('#createDocument').then((interception) => {
assert.isNotNull(interception);
const values = parse(interception.request);
assert.isTrue(values.comments === "");
});
How can I handle this?

Upload byte array from axios to Node server

Background
Javascript library for Microsoft Office add-ins allows you to get raw content of the DOCX file through getFileAsync() api, which returns a slice of up to 4MB in one go. You keep calling the function using a sliding window approach till you have reed entire content. I need to upload these slices to the server and the join them back to recreate the original DOCX file.
My attempt
I'm using axios on the client-side and busboy-based express-chunked-file-upload middleware on my node server. As I call getFileAsync recursively, I get a raw array of bytes that I then convert to a Blob and append to FormData before posting it to the node server. The entire thing works and I get the slice on the server. However, the chunk that gets written to the disk on the server is much larger than the blob I uploaded, normally of the order of 3 times, so it is obviously not getting what I sent.
My suspicion is that this may have to do with stream encoding, but the node middleware does not expose any options to set encoding.
Here is the current state of code:
Client-side
public sendActiveDocument(uploadAs: string, sliceSize: number): Promise<boolean> {
return new Promise<boolean>((resolve) => {
Office.context.document.getFileAsync(Office.FileType.Compressed,
{ sliceSize: sliceSize },
async (result) => {
if (result.status == Office.AsyncResultStatus.Succeeded) {
// Get the File object from the result.
const myFile = result.value;
const state = {
file: myFile,
filename: uploadAs,
counter: 0,
sliceCount: myFile.sliceCount,
chunkSize: sliceSize
} as getFileState;
console.log("Getting file of " + myFile.size + " bytes");
const hash = makeId(12)
this.getSlice(state, hash).then(resolve(true))
} else {
resolve(false)
}
})
})
}
private async getSlice(state: getFileState, fileHash: string): Promise<boolean> {
const result = await this.getSliceAsyncPromise(state.file, state.counter)
if (result.status == Office.AsyncResultStatus.Succeeded) {
const data = result.value.data;
if (data) {
const formData = new FormData();
formData.append("file", new Blob([data]), state.filename);
const boundary = makeId(12);
const start = state.counter * state.chunkSize
const end = (state.counter + 1) * state.chunkSize
const total = state.file.size
return await Axios.post('/upload', formData, {
headers: {
"Content-Type": `multipart/form-data; boundary=${boundary}`,
"file-chunk-id": fileHash,
"file-chunk-size": state.chunkSize,
"Content-Range": 'bytes ' + start + '-' + end + '/' + total,
},
}).then(async res => {
if (res.status === 200) {
state.counter++;
if (state.counter < state.sliceCount) {
return await this.getSlice(state, fileHash);
}
else {
this.closeFile(state);
return true
}
}
else {
return false
}
}).catch(err => {
console.log(err)
this.closeFile(state)
return false
})
} else {
return false
}
}
else {
console.log(result.status);
return false
}
}
private getSliceAsyncPromise(file: Office.File, sliceNumber: number): Promise<Office.AsyncResult<Office.Slice>> {
return new Promise(function (resolve) {
file.getSliceAsync(sliceNumber, result => resolve(result))
})
}
Server-side
This code is totally from the npm package (link above), so I'm not supposed to change anything in here, but still for reference:
makeMiddleware = () => {
return (req, res, next) => {
const busboy = new Busboy({ headers: req.headers });
busboy.on('file', (fieldName, file, filename, _0, _1) => {
if (this.fileField !== fieldName) { // Current field is not handled.
return next();
}
const chunkSize = req.headers[this.chunkSizeHeader] || 500000; // Default: 500Kb.
const chunkId = req.headers[this.chunkIdHeader] || 'unique-file-id'; // If not specified, will reuse same chunk id.
// NOTE: Using the same chunk id for multiple file uploads in parallel will corrupt the result.
const contentRangeHeader = req.headers['content-range'];
let contentRange;
const errorMessage = util.format(
'Invalid Content-Range header: %s', contentRangeHeader
);
try {
contentRange = parse(contentRangeHeader);
} catch (err) {
return next(new Error(errorMessage));
}
if (!contentRange) {
return next(new Error(errorMessage));
}
const part = contentRange.start / chunkSize;
const partFilename = util.format('%i.part', part);
const tmpDir = util.format('/tmp/%s', chunkId);
this._makeSureDirExists(tmpDir);
const partPath = path.join(tmpDir, partFilename);
const writableStream = fs.createWriteStream(partPath);
file.pipe(writableStream);
file.on('end', () => {
req.filePart = part;
if (this._isLastPart(contentRange)) {
req.isLastPart = true;
this._buildOriginalFile(chunkId, chunkSize, contentRange, filename).then(() => {
next();
}).catch(_ => {
const errorMessage = 'Failed merging parts.';
next(new Error(errorMessage));
});
} else {
req.isLastPart = false;
next();
}
});
});
req.pipe(busboy);
};
}
Update
So it looks like I have found the problem at least. busboy appears to be writing my array of bytes as text in the output file. I get 80,75,3,4,20,0,6,0,8,0,0,0,33,0,44,25 (as text) when I upload the array of bytes [80,75,3,4,20,0,6,0,8,0,0,0,33,0,44,25]. Now need to figure out how to force it to write it as a binary stream.

Figured out. Just in case it helps anyone, there was no problem with busboy or office.js or axios. I just had to convert the incoming chunk of data to Uint8Array before creating a blob from it. So instead of:
formData.append("file", new Blob([data]), state.filename);
like this:
const blob = new Blob([ new Uint8Array(data) ])
formData.append("file", blob, state.filename);
And it worked like a charm.

Forward multipartform request from one GraphQL API to other GraphQL API

I'm uploading files from the browser via a multipart request to a GraphQL-API which is powered by graphql-yoga which is powered by express.
Now I want to forward this exact same request body to another GraphQL-API.
const fetch = require('node-fetch');
async passThrough(args, opts) {
const { body, getRawBody, headers, method } = opts.request;
var rawBody;
if (body.files && body.files.length) {
rawBody = await getRawBody;
} else {
rawBody = typeof body == 'string' ? body : JSON.stringify(body)
}
let options = {
body: rawBody,
method, headers
};
var res = await fetch(otherApiUrl, options).then((res) => {
return res.json();
});
return res;
}
In this function I get the body as an object. But it includes "files" as promises which I can't simply forward (Couldn't find anything to do it). So I tried to get the raw body through a express middleware and access it like above with await getRawBody.
function getRawBody(req, res, next) {
req.getRawBody = new Promise(resolve => {
var buf = '';
req.on('data', x => buf += x);
req.on('end', () => {
resolve(buf);
});
});
next();
}
server.express.use(getRawBody);
It passes the request to the other API but the files are no valid jpegs anymore. I found out, that the uploaded file is shifted some bits from the original file. What am I maybe doing wrong?

I found a solution here and adapted the function to get the raw body. Now the file contents are not shifted anymore on the target host.
const concatStream = require('concat-stream');
function getRawBody(req, res, next) {
req.getRawBody = new Promise(resolve => {
req.pipe(concatStream(function (data) {
resolve(data);
}));
});
next();
}

Convert image path to blob react native

Problem
I am trying to create an app with react native and firebase. One of the features I would like for this app is the ability to upload images. I am having some trouble uploading the images to firebase storage though. I am using expo's image picker to find the path of the image that the user wants to upload, but once I have the path I don't know how to convert that to something I can upload to firebase.
Can somebody help me convert the path of an image to something I can upload to firebase storage with react native?
What I've tried
I tried using:
_pickImage = async () => {
let result = await ImagePicker.launchImageLibraryAsync({
MediaTypeOptions: 'Images',
quality: 0.4,
_uploadAsByteArray = async (pickerResultAsByteArray, progressCallback) => {
try {
var metadata = {
contentType: 'image/jpeg',
};
var storageRef = firebase.storage().ref();
var ref = storageRef.child('images/'+expoID+'/'+this.state.time)
let uploadTask = ref.put(pickerResultAsByteArray, metadata)
uploadTask.on('state_changed', function (snapshot) {
progressCallback && progressCallback(snapshot.bytesTransferred / snapshot.totalBytes)
var progress = (snapshot.bytesTransferred / snapshot.totalBytes) * 100;
console.log('Upload is ' + progress + '% done');
}, function (error) {
console.log("in _uploadAsByteArray ", error)
}, function () {
var downloadURL = uploadTask.snapshot.downloadURL;
console.log("_uploadAsByteArray ", uploadTask.snapshot.downloadURL)
this.setState({imageUploaded:true})
});
} catch (ee) {
console.log("when trying to load _uploadAsByteArray ", ee)
}
}
convertToByteArray = (input) => {
var binary_string = this.atob(input);
var len = binary_string.length;
var bytes = new Uint8Array(len);
for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
bytes[i] = binary_string.charCodeAt(i);
}
return bytes
}
atob = (input) => {
const chars = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=';
let str = input.replace(/=+$/, '');
let output = '';
if (str.length % 4 == 1) {
throw new Error("'atob' failed: The string to be decoded is not correctly encoded.");
}
for (let bc = 0, bs = 0, buffer, i = 0;
buffer = str.charAt(i++);
~buffer && (bs = bc % 4 ? bs * 64 + buffer : buffer,
bc++ % 4) ? output += String.fromCharCode(255 & bs >> (-2 * bc & 6)) : 0
) {
buffer = chars.indexOf(buffer);
}
return output;
}
uploadImage(bsfdata){
this.setState({imageUploaded:false})
this._uploadAsByteArray(this.convertToByteArray(bsfdata), (progress) => {
this.setState({ progress:progress })
})
}
base64:true,
});
/* if (!result.cancelled) {
this.setState({ image: result.uri });
let formData = new FormData();
formData.append('photo', {
uri,
name: `photo.${fileType}`,
type: `image/${fileType}`,
});}*/
this.uploadImage(result.base64);
};
}
I've tried it with the commented code added, which doesn't upload anything, and I've tried it with how the code is now, which gives me the error Can currently only create a Blob from other Blobs, and the uploading progress never gets above 0%.

If you are using expo (>=26), then you can do it easily with the following lines of code.
uploadImage = async(imageUri) => {
const response = await fetch(imageUri);
const blob = await response.blob();
var ref = firebase.storage().ref().child("image.jpg");
return ref.put(blob);
}
Reference: https://youtu.be/KkZckepfm2Q

Refer this link - https://github.com/dailydrip/react-native-firebase-storage/blob/master/src/App.js#L43-L69
Following block of code is working fine.
uploadImage(uri, mime = 'application/octet-stream') {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const uploadUri = Platform.OS === 'ios' ? uri.replace('file://', '') : uri
let uploadBlob = null
const imageRef = FirebaseClient.storage().ref('images').child('image_001')
fs.readFile(uploadUri, 'base64')
.then((data) => {
return Blob.build(data, { type: `${mime};BASE64` })
})
.then((blob) => {
uploadBlob = blob
return imageRef.put(blob, { contentType: mime })
})
.then(() => {
uploadBlob.close()
return imageRef.getDownloadURL()
})
.then((url) => {
resolve(url)
})
.catch((error) => {
reject(error)
})
})
}

You need to install rn-fetch-blob module:
npm install --save rn-fetch-blob
Then, do the following:
import RNFetchBlob from 'rn-fetch-blob';
const Blob = RNFetchBlob.polyfill.Blob;
const fs = RNFetchBlob.fs;
window.XMLHttpRequest = RNFetchBlob.polyfill.XMLHttpRequest;
window.Blob = Blob;
function uploadImage(path) {
const imageFile = RNFetchBlob.wrap(path);
// 'path/to/image' is where you wish to put your image in
// the database, if you would like to put it in the folder
// 'subfolder' inside 'mainFolder' and name it 'myImage', just
// replace it with 'mainFolder/subfolder/myImage'
const ref = firebase.storage().ref('path/to/image');
var uploadBlob = null;
Blob.build(imageFile, { type: 'image/jpg;' })
.then((imageBlob) => {
uploadBlob = imageBlob;
return ref.put(imageBlob, { contentType: 'image/jpg' });
})
.then(() => {
uploadBlob.close();
return ref.getDownloadURL();
})
.((url) => {
// do something with the url if you wish to
})
.catch(() => {
dispatch({
type: UPDATE_PROFILE_INFO_FAIL,
payload: 'Unable to upload profile picture, please try again'
});
});
}
Please do ask if there's any part of the code that you don't understand. To upload multiple images, simply wrap this code with a for loop. Or if you want to make sure that every image is uploaded without any error, use Promise

Not sure whom this might help, but if you're using MediaLibrary to load images from the gallery, then the uri comes in the format of uri = file:///storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/filename.jpg
In this case, using fetch(uri) didn't help me get the blob.
But if you use fetch(uri.replace("file:///","file:/")) and then follow #sriteja Sugoor's answer, you'll be able to upload the file blob.

const Blob = RNFetchBlob.polyfill.Blob;
const fs = RNFetchBlob.fs;
let uploadBlob;
await fs
.readFile(params?.file.path, 'base64')
.then((data) => {
return Blob.build(data, {type: `BASE64`});
})
.then((blob) => {
uploadBlob = blob;
console.log(uploadBlob, 'uploadBlob');
});

Angular 2 Synchronous File Upload

I am trying to upload a file to web api which takes the file as byte array using angular 2 application.
I am not able to pass the byte array from angular 2 page to web api. It looks like the File Reader read method is asynchronous. How do I make this as synchronous call or wait for the file content to be loaded before executing the next line of code?
Below is my code
//attachment on browse - when the browse button is clicked
//It only assign the file to a local variable (attachment)
fileChange = (event) => {
var files = event.target.files;
if (files.length > 0) {
this.attachment = files[0];
}
}
//when the submit button is clicked
onSubmit = () => {
//Read the content of the file and store it in local variable (fileData)
let fr = new FileReader();
let data = new Blob([this.attachment]);
fr.readAsArrayBuffer(data);
fr.onloadend = () => {
this.fileData = fr.result; //Note : This always "undefined"
};
//build the attachment object which will be sent to Web API
let attachment: Attachment = {
AttachmentId: '0',
FileName: this.form.controls["attachmentName"].value,
FileData: this.fileData
}
//build the purchase order object
let order: UpdatePurchaseOrder = {
SendEmail: true,
PurchaseOrderNumber: this.form.controls["purchaseOrderNumber"].value,
Attachment: attachment
}
//call the web api and pass the purchaseorder object
this.updatePoService
.updatePurchaseOrder(this.form.controls["purchaseOrderRequestId"].value, order)
.subscribe(data => {
if (data) {
this.saveSuccess = true;
}
else {
this.saveSuccess = false;
}
},
error => this.errors = error,
() => this.res = 'Completed'
);
}
Any hint would be useful.
regards,
-Alan-

You cannot make this async call synchronous. But you can take advantage of the observables to wait for the files to be read:
//when the submit button is clicked
onSubmit = () => {
let file = Observable.create((observer) => {
let fr = new FileReader();
let data = new Blob([this.attachment]);
fr.readAsArrayBuffer(data);
fr.onloadend = () => {
observer.next(fr.result);
observer.complete()
};
fr.onerror = (err) => {
observer.error(err)
}
fr.onabort = () => {
observer.error("aborted")
}
});
file.map((fileData) => {
//build the attachment object which will be sent to Web API
let attachment: Attachment = {
AttachmentId: '0',
FileName: this.form.controls["attachmentName"].value,
FileData: fileData
}
//build the purchase order object
let order: UpdatePurchaseOrder = {
SendEmail: true,
PurchaseOrderNumber: this.form.controls["purchaseOrderNumber"].value,
Attachment: attachment
}
return order;
})
.switchMap(order => this.updatePoService.updatePurchaseOrder(this.form.controls["purchaseOrderRequestId"].value, order))
.subscribe(data => {
if (data) {
this.saveSuccess = true;
} else {
this.saveSuccess = false;
}
},
error => this.errors = error,
() => this.res = 'Completed'
);
}

I arrived here looking for a solution for a similar issue. I'm performing requests to an endpoint which can response a binary blob if anything goes well or a JSON file in event of error.
this.httpClient.post(urlService, bodyRequest,
{responseType: 'blob', headers: headers})
.pipe(map((response: Response) => response),
catchError((err: Error | HttpErrorResponse) => {
if (err instanceof HttpErrorResponse) {
// here, err.error is a BLOB containing a JSON String with the error message
} else {
return throwError(ErrorDataService.overLoadError(err, message));
}
}));
As FileReaderSync apparently doesn't work in Angular6 I took n00dl3's solution (above) to throw the error after parsing the Blob content:
return this.httpClient.post(urlService, bodyRequest,
{responseType: 'blob', headers: headers})
.pipe(map((response: Response) => response),
catchError((err: Error | HttpErrorResponse) => {
const message = `In TtsService.getTts(${locale},${outputFormat}). ${err.message}`;
if (err instanceof HttpErrorResponse) {
const $errBlobReader: Observable<HttpErrorResponse> = Observable.create((observer) => {
const fr = new FileReader();
const errorBlob = err.error;
fr.readAsText(errorBlob, 'utf8');
fr.onloadend = () => {
const errMsg = JSON.parse(fr.result).message;
const msg = `In TtsService.getTts(${locale},${outputFormat}). ${errMsg}`;
observer.error(ErrorDataService.overLoadError(err, msg));
};
fr.onerror = (blobReadError) => {
observer.error(blobReadError);
};
fr.onabort = () => {
observer.error('aborted');
};
});
return $errBlobReader;
} else {
return throwError(ErrorDataService.overLoadError(err, message));
}
}));
Thanks! You really saved my day!