Handle file upload about node-restify HOT 6 CLOSED

Greetings and salutations,

Yeah, the formidable object isn't exposed right now, primarily because multi-part form data was put in restify to enabled APIs and curl -F, not really for file uploads. That said, it's probably not a stretch to factor it in such a way that you can get both, so I'll use this ticket as a "go refactor said code" ticket :)

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👍 - Haven't taken look at the latest commits, but have you thought anymore about adding support for file uploads. It's the one thing keeping me from moving away from Express.

Thanks for the great framework btw.

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I was actually going to close this out today. With the new 1.0 branch (which I'm going to officially cut over to today or tomorrow), this is no longer a problem as you would be free to do:

server.post('/foo', function (req, res, next) {
  // Do whatever you want with formidable here
});

I.e., restify is no longer locking up the multipart parsing on you (unless you explicitly load the plugin it ships with). Will that suffice for what you need here?

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That's exactly what I was looking for and I suspect would work for most use cases.

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Yep - Resolved.

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This works when you use the following:
curl -F "[email protected]" localhost:8080/upload

When I use the following:

curl -T mydocument.docx localhost:8080/upload

Either it hangs, or it says {"message":"Unsupported Content-Type: application/octet-stream"}

However, I had thought that restify does support octet-stream?

My code is like this:

server.put('/upload', respond);
server.post('/upload', respond);

function respond(req,res,next) {
console.log(req.files);
res.send('hello ');
}

and the console says 'undefined' for echoing req.files.

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