form-data-stream
Supports application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data and application/json. Synchronous and asynchronous methods.
Content-length not supported for streams but streams are supported
Examples
Simple POST Request
const https = require('https');
const {FormDataStream} = require('form-data-stream');
var postData = new FormDataStream();
postData.set('test1', 'abcöäü§$%&');
postData.set('test2', 'yyyyyy');
postData.set('test[]', '11111');
postData.set('test[]', '22222');
var options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: postData.headers()
};
var req = https.request('https://localhost/upload.php', options);
req.on('response', function (res) {
// ... do somthing
});
// Write date
postData.pipe(req);Komplex POST Request
const https = require('https');
const {FormDataStream} = require('form-data-stream');
var postData = new FormDataStream();
postData.set('test1', 'abcöäü§$%&');
postData.set('test2', ['abc', 'xyz']);
postData.set('test3', {sub1: 'abc', sub2: 'xyz'});
postData.set('test4', ['abc', {sub1: 'abc', sub2: 'xyz'}]);
postData.set('test5', {sub1: 'abc', sub2: [123, false, null, undefined]});
var options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: postData.headers()
};
var req = https.request('https://localhost/upload.php', options);
req.on('response', function (res) {
// ... do somthing
});
// Write date
postData.pipe(req);Upload file Request
const https = require('https');
const {FormDataStream} = require('form-data-stream');
var postData = new FormDataStream();
postData.set('test1', 'abcöäü§$%&');
postData.setFile('file', './upload.txt');
var options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: postData.headers()
};
var req = https.request('https://localhost/upload.php', options);
req.on('response', function (res) {
// ... do somthing
});
// Write date
postData.pipe(req);Field data from stream
const https = require('https');
const {FormDataStream} = require('form-data-stream');
var postData = new FormDataStream();
var stream = fs.createReadStream('./upload.txt');
postData.set('field_name', stream);
var options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: postData.headers()
};
var req = https.request('https://localhost/upload.php', options);
// Write date
postData.pipe(req);Syncronous
const https = require('https');
const {FormDataStream} = require('form-data-stream');
var postData = new FormDataStream();
// Fileupload
postData.setFile('file', './upload.txt');
// File from stream
// Sync stream required
var StreamSync = require('stream-sync');
let stream = new StreamSync.FileReadStreamSync('./upload.txt');
postData.setFile('file2', stream);
// Field from stream
var StreamSync = require('stream-sync');
let fstream = new StreamSync.FileReadStreamSync('./upload.txt');
postData.set('field_from_stream', fstream);
var options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: postData.headers()
};
var req = https.request('https://localhost/upload.php', options);
// Write date
postData.pipeSync(req);
// pipeSync does not end the request
req.end();