I have a react.js redux-form that works and posts data back to my API but I need to also allow the submitter to upload an image with the form, ideally with a preview. I struggled a bit and have arrived at dropzone.js but I can't seem to get my form to actually POST the image data back.
render () {
const FILE_FIELD_NAME = 'files';
const renderDropzoneInput = (field) => {
const files = field.input.value;
return (
<div>
<Dropzone
name={field.name}
onDrop={( filesToUpload, e ) => field.input.onChange(filesToUpload)}
>
<div>Try dropping some files here, or click to select files to upload.</div>
</Dropzone>
{field.meta.touched &&
field.meta.error &&
<span className="error">{field.meta.error}</span>}
{files && Array.isArray(files) && (
<ul>
{ files.map((file, i) => <li key={i}>{file.name}<img src={file.preview}/></li>) }
</ul>
)}
</div>
);
}
return (
<form onSubmit={this.props.handleSubmit(this.onSubmit)}>
<div className="form-group">
<Field name="files" ponent={renderDropzoneInput} />
</div>
<button type="submit" className="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</form>
);
}
The files
variable does get POSTed back to the API which is great but it contains the following:
[preview=blob:http://localhost:3000/bed3762e-a4de-4d19-8039-97cebaaca5c1]
Can anyone suggest how I get the actual binary data in to that variable please?
The full code is available here .js
I have a react.js redux-form that works and posts data back to my API but I need to also allow the submitter to upload an image with the form, ideally with a preview. I struggled a bit and have arrived at dropzone.js but I can't seem to get my form to actually POST the image data back.
render () {
const FILE_FIELD_NAME = 'files';
const renderDropzoneInput = (field) => {
const files = field.input.value;
return (
<div>
<Dropzone
name={field.name}
onDrop={( filesToUpload, e ) => field.input.onChange(filesToUpload)}
>
<div>Try dropping some files here, or click to select files to upload.</div>
</Dropzone>
{field.meta.touched &&
field.meta.error &&
<span className="error">{field.meta.error}</span>}
{files && Array.isArray(files) && (
<ul>
{ files.map((file, i) => <li key={i}>{file.name}<img src={file.preview}/></li>) }
</ul>
)}
</div>
);
}
return (
<form onSubmit={this.props.handleSubmit(this.onSubmit)}>
<div className="form-group">
<Field name="files" ponent={renderDropzoneInput} />
</div>
<button type="submit" className="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
</form>
);
}
The files
variable does get POSTed back to the API which is great but it contains the following:
[preview=blob:http://localhost:3000/bed3762e-a4de-4d19-8039-97cebaaca5c1]
Can anyone suggest how I get the actual binary data in to that variable please?
The full code is available here https://github./rushughes/dsloracle/blob/master/client/src/ponents/LandCreate/index.js
Share Improve this question edited Jan 6, 2018 at 9:41 Vikas Yadav 3,3542 gold badges22 silver badges22 bronze badges asked Jan 6, 2018 at 5:39 RusHughesRusHughes 1,1812 gold badges12 silver badges18 bronze badges 1- Can you point me to the file where you receive the form data on the server side? – zarcode Commented Jan 9, 2018 at 19:10
3 Answers
Reset to default 5 +100I recently had a similar issue and solved it by using the FileReader API to convert the blob url to Base64 (can also convert to binary string).
Then you send the Base64 or binary string to the server.
My example code:
onDrop(acceptedFiles: any): any {
let images: any = this.state.Images;
acceptedFiles.forEach((file: any) => {
const reader: FileReader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = () => {
const fileAsBase64: any = reader.result.substr(reader.result.indexOf(",") + 1);
images.push(fileAsBase64);
};
reader.onabort = () => console.log("file reading was aborted");
reader.onerror = () => console.log("file reading has failed");
reader.readAsDataURL(file);
});
this.setState(prevState => ({
Images: images,
}));
}
If you want to send a binary string instead of base64 change reader.readAsDataURL(file);
to reader.readAsBinaryString(file);
and this line: const fileAsBase64: any = reader.result.substr(reader.result.indexOf(",") + 1);
can be simplified to const file: any = reader.result;
Here are the steps for file-upload
feature: (How to handle image data in your API)
Append your redux-form values to the FormData instance.
let formData = new FormData(); formData.append('myFile', files[0]);
Send
multipart/form-data
request from Client to your API with axios orfetch
library:Receive that
multipart/form-data
request in your API, process it with multer and then write the file to thedisk storage
ormemory storage
as follows:$ npm install --save multer
const multer = require('multer') const storage = multer.diskStorage({ destination: function (req, file, cb) { cb(null, '/tmp/my-uploads') }, filename: function (req, file, cb) { cb(null, file.fieldname + '-' + Date.now()) } }) const upload = multer({ storage: storage }) const app = express() app.post('/upload', upload.single('myFile'), (req, res, next) => { // req.file is the `myFile` file // req.body will hold the text fields, if there were any })
(Optional) Serve files directly from your API with Express Serve-Static
There are solutions available for React.js with Dropzone. Please refer to following:
http://reactdropzone.azurewebsites/example/
Which code can be found here: https://react.rocks/example/React-Dropzone
Further more these solutions will also assist you in some way, to get out of the problem:
https://github./react-dropzone/react-dropzone
https://medium./technoetics/handling-file-upload-in-reactjs-b9b95068f6b
http://blog.mauriziobonani./dropzone.js-react.js-and-fluxxor-integration/
https://css-tricks./image-upload-manipulation-react/
https://www.reddit./r/reactjs/ments/6k6fjr/reactdropzone_integration_with_react/