Uploading to S3 using mongoose-crate

hello, tearing my hair out trying to implement mongoose-crate-s3, Have instantiated a model from Mongoose with the crate plugin attached, but I can’t get the uploaded file to persist, debugging is showing me that req.file is getting set but the Mongoose Model is not getting the file attached. Any ideas?

/// I am trying to use mongoose-crate-s3 to save files to S3 bucket\
/// Following instructions here: https://github.com/achingbrain/mongoose-crate-s3
/// req.file is setting but my instance of the File model based on mongoose-crate-s3 is not getting file saved to it
/// Debugging below

const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const crate = require('mongoose-crate')
const S3 = require('mongoose-crate-s3')
const path = require('path')

const FileSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  owner:          { type: String },
  title:          { type: String },
  filename:       { type: String, required: [true, 'required'] }
}).set('toJSON', {
  virtuals:          true,
  versionKey:        false,
  transform:         function (doc, ret) { delete ret._id }
})

FileSchema.plugin(crate, {
  storage: new S3({
    key: 'REDACTED',
    secret: 'REDACTED',
    bucket: 'REDACTED',
    acl: 'public-read', // defaults to public-read
    region: 'eu-west-1', // defaults to us-standard
    // where the file is stored in the bucket - defaults to this function
    path: (attachment) => `/${path.basename(attachment.path)}`
  }),
  fields: {
    file: {}
  }
})

const File = mongoose.model('File', FileSchema)


/// THEN I HAVE A ROUTE TRIGGERING THE FOLLOWING

create(req, res, next) {

    if (!req.file) {
      res.status(665);
      return res.json({'status' : 'failed', 'message' : 'no file attached'});
    }

    var fileInstance = new File()
    fileInstance.title = req.body.title;
    fileInstance.filename = req.file.originalname;
    console.log('A', req.file);
    fileInstance.attach('file', req.file, (error) => {
      if (error) {
        fileInstance.save((error) => {
          res.status(666);
          console.log('B', fileInstance)
          console.log('C', fileInstance.file)
          res.send(fileInstance.file.url);
        });
      } else {
        res.status(667);
        return res.json({'status' : 'failed', 'message' : error});
      }
    });
}


//// OUTPUT /////
HTTP/1.1 666

A { fieldname: 'file',
  originalname: 'test.pdf',
  encoding: '7bit',
  mimetype: 'application/pdf',
  buffer: <Buffer 25 50 44 46 2d 31 2e 35 0a 25 bf f7 a2 fe 0a 31 30 20 30 20 6f 62 6a 0a 3c 3c 20 2f 4c 69 6e 65 61 72 69 7a 65 64 20 31 20 2f 4c 20 33 31 33 31 32 36 ... >,
  size: 313126 }
B { __v: 0,
  filename: 'test.pdf',
  _id: 5a9511b62c63041bac655344 }
C {}

No offence but this seems like a non-FCC challenge question. I’m sure you would be better asking on stackoverflow

None taken, long day - thanks for the reply.

M

I use mongo(mlab) and s3 for a lot of projects. i have been been working on a tutorial series that makes a rough you tube clone. stores data in mlab and video and image files on s3. I use the aws-sdk package and axios to deal with uploads to s3. i can tell you it is fairly straightforward to do.

so my question is if you are set on the mongoose crate stuff? maybe there is something different or better about it. since i am not familiar with mongoose crate idk, but if all you want to do is store files on s3 while having the s3 url and other data on mongo - aws-sdk works well.

Hey, I am doing a similar thing. I would love to know about how you use aws-sdk and axios to deal with uploads to s3. Thanks for reading.