#gridform

Formidable streams uploads to the file system by default. If you're using GridFS to store files you'll then need to turn around and copy them off of the file system. Using gridform removes this burden.

Example:

var mongo = require('mongodb')
var gridform = require('gridform');

// assuming you've already created a db instance and opened it
gridform.db = db;
gridform.mongo = mongo;

// in your http server
var app = http.Server(function (req, res) {

  // create a gridform
  var form = gridform();

  // returns a custom IncomingForm
  assert(form instanceof formidable.IncomingForm);

  // optionally store per-file metadata
  form.on('fileBegin', function (name, file) {
    file.metadata = 'so meta'
  })

  // parse normally
  form.parse(req, function (err, fields, files) {

    // use files and fields as you do today
    var file = files.upload;

    file.name // the uploaded file name
    file.type // file type per [mime](https://github.com/bentomas/node-mime)
    file.size // uploaded file size (file length in GridFS) named "size" for compatibility
    file.path // same as file.name. included for compatibility
    file.lastModified // included for compatibility

    // files contain additional gridfs info
    file.root // the root of the files collection used in MongoDB ('fs' here means the full collection in mongo is named 'fs.files')
    file.id   // the ObjectId for this file

  });
});

install

npm install gridform

exports

The module exports a function which takes an options object.

var gridform = require('gridform');
var options = { db: db, mongo: mongo, filename: fn };
var form = gridform(options);

Available options:

• db: an open node-mongodb-native db instance
• mongo: the node-mongodb-native driver you are using
• filename: function

The optional filename function is passed the file.name before streaming to MongoDB providing an opportunity to return a customized filename with a prefix etc.

db and mongo are required unless you've specified them on gridform itself.

var gridform = require('gridform');
gridform.db = db;
gridform.mongo = mongo;
var form = gridform(); // all good

The gridform function returns an instance of formidable.IncomingForm so you can process uploads without changing any code.

gridfs-stream

This module utilizes the gridfs-stream module which is exposed as require('gridform').gridfsStream.

tests

Run the tests with make test.

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