How to disable Express BodyParser for file uploads (Node.js)

Question

This seems like it should be a fairly simple question, but I\'m having a really hard time figuring out how to approach it.

I\'m using Node.js + Express to build a we

Answer 1

I've faced similar problems in 3.1.1 and found (not so pretty IMO) solution:

to disable bodyParser for multipart/form-data:

var bodyParser = express.bodyParser();
app.use(function(req,res,next){
    if(req.get('content-type').indexOf('multipart/form-data') === 0)return next();
    bodyParser(req,res,next);
});

and for parsing the content:

app.all('/:token?/:collection',function(req,res,next){
    if(req.get('content-type').indexOf('multipart/form-data') !== 0)return next();
    if(req.method != 'POST' && req.method != 'PUT')return next();
    //...use your custom code here
});

for example I'm using node-multiparty where the custom code should look like this:

    var form = new multiparty.Form();

    form.on('file',function(name,file){
       //...per file event handling
    });     

    form.parse(req, function(err, fields, files) {
       //...next();
    });