plumber-uploader

A really hacky implementation of a file uploader in R using the plumber package.

A request for a better way to do this has been raised in the plumber project.

Notes

• Currently only works with text based files. Binary files are corrupted on upload.
  • upload.html attempts to limit the types of file that can be uploaded to text based to help prevent corruption.
• The techniques used for extracting the file name and file body are not robust, and would be easily broken.
• There's nothing to stop you uploading a file over another file.
• I feel like plumber needs a req$FILES or something
• Maybe I'm missing something!
• Posting file data currently produces a warning (see below)

Warning in if (stri_startswith_fixed(body, "{")) { :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
Warning in if (stri_startswith_fixed(qs, "?")) { :
  the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used

Warning

This is toy code at this point. Do not use!

If you must...

Make sure the 'uploads' directory exists in the same directory as the code, then run:

library(plumber)
r <- plumb("./upload.R")
r$run(port=4000)

open upload.html in your browser and have at it.

Remember I warned you not to though ;)