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Convert 'firstValues' helper into an option for Formidable constructor. #973
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Some people asked in the past to make the library smaller. This would make it bigger. Sometimes you want some data to be array for example with |
The current way of doing this is not only ugly ( |
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What problem are you trying to solve?
Hello, Formidable community:
Today I started developing a Node.js server on Express.js to handle Next.js + TypeScript requests, and I came across an issue when trying to parse the body from the request that is sent as FormData. After some research I chose Formidable to parse the FormData. I managed to parse the data, and then I noticed the fields were retrieved and sent back as arrays in the response (for example,
email: ['[email protected]']
), so I went back on the documentation and I found the 'firstValues' helper.Everything works fine now - the values are sent as
key: value
instead ofkey: [value]
, but I find it difficult to deal with such a common issue a lot of developers are probably facing. Since Next.js + TypeScript almost forces to pass the body as FormData even for text inputs, and Node.js requires an external parser such as Formidable, I am afraid a lot of developers are dealing with this issue over and over again.My suggestion is to convert the 'firstValues' helper into another option that can be passed to the Formidable constructor, in the same way as
{ maxFiles: 1 }
,{ multiples: true }
, and the rest of options withinDEFAULT_OPTIONS
constant. That would make it a lot easier to deal with this issue, asconst { firstValues } = require("formidable/src/helpers/firstValues.js")
would no longer be required and it would be replaced byconst form = formidable({ firstValues: true })
.Note: I am new to Formidable and barely have any experience with TypeScript, so if there is currently a way of doing this I would be so thankful if you explain it.
Thank you all for your help.
Do you have a new or modified API suggestion to solve the problem?
I don't.
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