Uploading a buffer to google cloud storage

Question

I\'m trying to save a Buffer (of a file uploaded from a form) to Google Cloud storage, but it seems like the Google Node SDK only allows files with a given path to be uploaded (

Answer 1

The following snippet is from a google example. The example assumes you have used multer, or something similar, and can access the file at req.file. You can stream the file to cloud storage using middleware that resembles the following:

function sendUploadToGCS (req, res, next) {
  if (!req.file) {
    return next();
  }

  const gcsname = Date.now() + req.file.originalname;
  const file = bucket.file(gcsname);

  const stream = file.createWriteStream({
    metadata: {
      contentType: req.file.mimetype
    },
    resumable: false
  });

  stream.on('error', (err) => {
    req.file.cloudStorageError = err;
    next(err);
  });

  stream.on('finish', () => {
    req.file.cloudStorageObject = gcsname;
    file.makePublic().then(() => {
      req.file.cloudStoragePublicUrl = getPublicUrl(gcsname);
      next();
    });
  });

  stream.end(req.file.buffer);
}