Using reqresnext to test a file upload

[ErisDS]

I'm trying to figure out how to test a file upload endpoint using reqresnext :grim: Any idea if it's even possible?

I think it might depend on too many internals of http 🤔

[antongolub]

Sorry, no ideas right now ((

[antongolub]

I think we can take an API contract from https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-fileupload to synthesize body field.

new Request({
  files:
    foo: {
      name: 'foo',
      mimeType: 'foo',
      data: <path/buffer>,
      md5: ...
    },
    bar: {...}
})

↓

Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------9051914041544843365972754266
Content-Length: 554

-----------------------------9051914041544843365972754266
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="text"

text default
-----------------------------9051914041544843365972754266
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="foo"; filename="foo.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

Content of a.txt.

-----------------------------9051914041544843365972754266
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="bar"; filename="bar.txt"

[ErisDS]

Hey @antongolub just wanted to say thank you for all your speedy responses to our issues and PRs :) We've written a test framework for testing express routes in Ghost that doesn't use http, instead it uses this module as its heart. It's really similar to supertest, but no http = faster :D

It lives here: https://github.com/TryGhost/framework/tree/main/packages/express-test and is totally agnostic, all the Ghost-specific code is in a wrapper in the Ghost repo.

It doesn't support file uploads yet as I've not had chance to look again since you replied, however I will at some point want to add that feature. Really grateful for your help, the commit bit & for this module ❤️

[antongolub]

@ErisDS,

Wow! Thank a lot for the feedback. I apreciate, that's truly motivating.