How to send response to client when files is too large with Multer

Question

I'm using NodeJs Multer to upload files. I need to send response back to a client when file user tries to upload is too large. The problem is that onFileSizeLimit only has file as argument and I dont know how to send response to client. What I need to do is basically soomething like below:

app.use('/users/gyms/upload-logo', multer({
    // other settings here then:
    onFileSizeLimit: function (file) {
        // but res (response) object is not existing here
        res.json({
            message: "Upload failed",
            status: MARankings.Enums.Status.FILE_TOO_LARGE
            // status: -6
        });
    }
});

res object dosent exists in there however and I'm wondering what is the best way to send some sort of response to client.

Answer 1

try this:

app.use('/users/gyms/upload-logo', multer({
    // other settings here then:
    onFileSizeLimit: function (file) {
        // but res (response) object is not existing here
        file.error = {
            message: "Upload failed",
            status: MARankings.Enums.Status.FILE_TOO_LARGE
            // status: -6
        };
    }, onFileUploadComplete: function (file, req, res) {
        if (file.error){
            res.send(file.error);
        }
    }
});

Answer 2

In this case, it's good to remember that Multer itself is just a (middleware) function that Express calls to get its response.

You could perhaps try with this:

app.use('/users/gyms/upload-logo', function(req, res, next) {

    var handler = multer({

        // other settings here then:
        onFileSizeLimit: function (file) {

            // res does exist here now :)
            res.json({
                message: "Upload failed",
                status: MARankings.Enums.Status.FILE_TOO_LARGE
                // status: -6
            });

        }

    });

    handler(req, res, next);

});

This basically aliases multer to handler, passes req, res, next from the Express callback, and means you get access to the req, res, next variables from within Multer's configuration.

I haven't tested this but I think the theory is sound!

Answer 3

This is an issue which has not been resolved by the author of multer yet. This github issue has quite a lot of discussion about it: