Note: I forked this and made a bunch of changes. It should still be legacy compatible, but I make no promises.

nodejs module to make POST file uploads

Module allows to send POST requests with Content-type: multipart/form-data with files and any readable streams.

Installation

npm install multiparter

API

• var request = new multiparter.request(protocol, options)

  Create request object. For protocol you may pass http or https module, options is request options object just like for http.request.

• request.setParam(field, value)

  Set plain field value for your request.

• request.addStream(field, fileName, mimeType, streamLength, stream)

  Add stream to request and assign it to specified field. Stream must have mime type (pass application/octet-stream if unsure) and length to calculate request length without loading whole stream data into memory.

• request.send(callback)

  Send request and receive error as first argument of callback and response as second (usual http.ClientResponse or https.ClientResponse object)

Example

var fs          = require("fs");
var http        = require("http");
var multiparter = require("multiparter");

// test host, but it works
var request = new multiparter.request(http, {
    host: "bobrik.name",
    port: 80,
    path: "/test2.php",
    method: "POST",
    boundary: "MyBoundary"
});

// add some plain params here
request.setParam("here", "we are");
request.setParam("again", "ok bye!");

// add files you need with readable stream
// don't forget to crete file test.txt
request.addStream(
    "myfile",
    "test.txt",
    "text/plain",
    19,
    fs.createReadStream("test.txt")
);

// send request and receive response
request.send(function(error, response) {
    if (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }

    var data = "";

    response.setEncoding("utf8");

    response.on("data", function(chunk) {
        data += chunk;
    });

    response.on("end", function() {
        console.log("Data: " + data);
    });

    response.on("error", function(error) {
        console.log(error);
    });
});

Authors

• Ian Babrou (ibobrik@gmail.com)