Comment by Sidharth Kumar on "Build a REST API with Node.js: Upload an Image File"

Hi Victoria Lo , Awesome tutorial.Its really very good tut. I have problem while using image upload from postman. Only when i use form-data method 'post' in POSTMAN i'm getting error while using image type file. Getting this error name": "ValidatorError", "message": "Path name is required.". But all the pervious code with out image is working fine with raw data with json data type. I try to debuge it .It happens only when i use form-data then in code req.body.name is not working but while using raw data using json its working. Should i need to use this

const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }))

app.use(bodyParser.json())

Screenshot from 2021-02-02 19-52-51.png Can you please help me upload image using form-data using POSTMAN ?

Hi Sidharth, please check your routes carefully and make sure it's just /tea and POSTman is not expecting a /tea/:name, which may cause the error.

Another possibility is that the image property in the newTea function is still req.body.image. Please update it to req.file.path like so (if you haven't):

const newTea = new Tea({
     name:req.body.name,
     image: req.file.path,  //update this
     description: req.body.description,
     keywords: req.body.keywords,
     origin: req.body.origin,
     brew_time: req.body.brew_time,
     temperature: req.body.temperature,
})

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