File upload corruption

Question

Im trying to upload a file to sharepoint

1. Successful try with just axios is the following

2. Failure if i upload using Guzzle

Uploaded file at the end is corrupted

Answer 1

There are a few things you need to modify to get this working (tested on my end):

1. To get the contents of the file, you need $request->file('file') and then use file_get_contents() on it. You can lose the get() part.
   

2. Make sure you're sending the header to accept multipart/form-data too:
   

   "Accept" => "multipart/form-data"
   

3. Fields name and filename in a form are two different things. Former is the name of the field while the latter is the name of the file. You need to send both.
   

Try this:

protected function uploadFile(Request $request){
$file = $request->file('file');
$body = [
          "headers" => [
          "Accept" => "multipart/form-data",
          "Authorization" => "Bearer {$this->token}"
         ],
         "multipart" => [
          "name" => "file",
          "contents" => file_get_contents($file),
          "filename" => $file->getClientOriginalName()
        ]
     ];
return (new Client)->request('POST', 'https://.sharepoint.com/...', $body);
}

P.S. - You can check whether a file is valid or not using isValid():

if ($request->file('file')->isValid()) {
    //
}

Official docs on this: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/requests#retrieving-uploaded-files

Answer 2

When providing content to be uploaded to Guzzle client as string, Guzzle tries to infer necessary information about the file such as filename, content-type.

You can help Guzzle to infer these information correctly to build the multipart request by passing information about about the filename and content-type in the multipart payload.

[
    //...

    'multipart' => [
        [
            'name' => 'fileName',
            'contents' => $request->file('file')->get(),
            'filename' => $request->file('file')->getName(),
            'headers' => [
               'content-type' => $request->file('file')->getMimeType(),
            ]
        ]
    ]
]