Getting Fields out of json

[gaurishhs]

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• Which support plan is this issue covered by? (Community, Sponsor, Enterprise): Community
• Currently blocking your project/work? (yes/no): yes
• Affecting a production system? (yes/no): yes

Context

• Node.js version: 16.x.x
• Release Line of Formidable (Legacy, Current, Next): Current
• Formidable exact version: v2
• Environment (node, browser, native, OS): MacOS
• Used with (popular names of modules): Express

What are you trying to achieve or the steps to reproduce?

• I get a very badly formatted json when i try logging files, I want to access the path of the file, But it's getting impossible i tried console.log(files.'') which wont actually work tried console.log(files[0]) but that too didnt work.

app.post('/upload', async (req, res) => {
    const form = new formidable.IncomingForm()
    form.parse(req, (error: any, fields: any, files: any) => {
        if(error) throw new Error(error)
        console.log(files)
        // imageDataURI.encodeFromFile(files.filepath).then((res: any) => console.log(res)).catch((e: any) => console.log(e))
    })
})

What was the result you got?

{
  '': PersistentFile {
    _events: [Object: null prototype] { error: [Function (anonymous)] },
    _eventsCount: 1,
    _maxListeners: undefined,
    lastModifiedDate: 2022-01-07T08:18:45.682Z,
    filepath: '/var/folders/sw/g7tk44p50dl3n_kgss8y6bwr0000gn/T/351263a04127c47c7bf9c2800',
    newFilename: '351263a04127c47c7bf9c2800',
    originalFilename: 'Screenshot_2022-01-01_at_10.36.58_AM-removebg-preview.png',
    mimetype: 'image/png',
    hashAlgorithm: false,
    size: 51200,
    _writeStream: WriteStream {
      fd: 25,
      path: '/var/folders/sw/g7tk44p50dl3n_kgss8y6bwr0000gn/T/351263a04127c47c7bf9c2800',
      flags: 'w',
      mode: 438,
      start: undefined,
      pos: undefined,
      bytesWritten: 51200,
      closed: false,
      _writableState: [WritableState],
      _events: [Object: null prototype],
      _eventsCount: 1,
      _maxListeners: undefined,
      [Symbol(kFs)]: [Object],
      [Symbol(kIsPerformingIO)]: false,
      [Symbol(kCapture)]: false
    },
    hash: null,
    [Symbol(kCapture)]: false
  }
}

What result did you expect?

• A Good Formatted JSON.

[GrosSacASac]

The <input type="file"> should have a name property like <input type="file" name="something">

you well then be able to access it like so console.log(files.something?.filepath)

Also you are miss-using the word JSON

[tunnckoCore]

@GrosSacASac true.

But definitely we should check against such case. 🚀 🚢

[GrosSacASac]

Check what ?

[tunnckoCore]

Ah, probably nothing.