HTML form body empty with NodeJs

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I apologize if this question seems really familiar. I have multiple places where I am using forms to send data to server. Here is the html.

 <form action="/dashboard/inventory/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
     <input type="date" class="form-control" id="receivingdate" placeholder="Select Receiving Date" required />
     <input type="file" class="custom-file-input" id="workorderfile" required />
     <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">
         Submit
     </button>
 </form>

In my app.js I have

app.use(fileUpload());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
    extended: true}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());

Yet When I try to access the date with req.body I get an empty object and null for req.files I have used this process on multiple places yet this is the only form that is giving me a headache. Any Suggestions?

Aziz Sirojiddinov · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-17 08:18:07Z

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here is simple code

<form  action="/upload" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">

  <label>write name</label>
  <input type="file" name="file" value="">
  <br></br>
  <label>Upload image</label>
  <input type="file" name="photo"  />
  <br></br>
  <input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

router file

router.post('/upload',  (req, res, next) => {
  const file = req.files.file;
  const img = req.files.photo;

in my main app.js file

const bodyParser= require('body-parser');
 const fileUpload = require('express-fileupload');
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));
app.use(fileUpload());

answered Dec 17, 2019 at 8:18

Aziz Sirojiddinov

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sakib11 Over a year ago

I just realized that I forgot to attach a name attribute. I am so sorry. THANKS.

sakib11 · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-17 08:23:39Z

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Attach a name attribute to input tags.

answered Dec 17, 2019 at 8:23

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