feat : Create New Generic File Upload Controller

[salahlalami]

Problem:
There is a need to create a new generic file uploadController.js file with a model. This controller should be located inside the middlewaresControllers directory.

Solution:
To address this problem, the following steps need to be taken:

Create a new model named Upload within the coreModels directory. This model will have the following fields:

modelName: The name of the model.
fieldId: The ID of the field.
enabled: A flag indicating whether the upload is enabled or not.
isPublic: A flag indicating whether isPublic or protected.
userID : userID who upload
isSecure : if true , only users who upload can see
removed: A flag indicating whether the upload has been removed or not.
path: The path to the uploaded file.

The File should upload to upload folder , inside modelName folder , the file should have a name of document id of (UploadCollection)

Add a new route to the coreRoutes file. This route should handle the URL pattern public/upload/:model/:fieldId.
Add a new route to the coreRoutes file. This route should handle the URL pattern private/upload/:model/:fieldId.

By following these steps, a new generic upload controller can be created with the necessary model and route structure.

[Aman-Gupta-404]

Hi @salahlalami, would love to work on this, but have a few questions

1. I believe I need to write the function to upload the files,so what type files are being uploaded
2. Is this route supposed to be protected?

if you could help me with this, I wold love to wrok on it

[salahlalami]

Hi @Aman-Gupta-404

1- All standard types (image , pdf , docs)
2- if isPublic the route is not protected , otherwise is protected

[Aman-Gupta-404]

Great, I would love to work on this, can I create a PR?

I am thinking of using multer for file uploading, that should be fine right

[salahlalami]

@Aman-Gupta-404 waiting for your pr , yes we are using multer right now

[IshaanShettigar]

Hey I am a bit confused, multer is a middleware right, so I need to set the filename and destination before control passes onto the actual Controller where I am going to say Upload.create(.. blah blah), but I need the _id in the multer middleware to set the filename. This sort of creates a circular dependency.

My workaround for this was to save the file temporarily in multer.memoryStorage() and then use fs to move it to the desired folder.

Is there a simpler way to do this or have I not understood something here?

[salahlalami]

@IshaanShettigar you can pass id as params , this generic middleware ,
no need for multer.memoryStorage()

[pablo-codes]

So what about the auth middleware
We should create 1 that checks if isPublic or not???