Uploading a file in Alfresco via JS API

Question

I'm trying to upload a file from a node application to my local Alfresco. I managed to login, create and delete folders but not files.

let AlfrescoApi = require('alfresco-js-api');
let alfrescoJsApi = new AlfrescoApi();
let fs = require('fs');

alfrescoJsApi.login('admin', 'admin').then(function (data) {

    console.log('API called successfully login ticket:' + data);

    var fileToUpload = fs.createReadStream('./testFile.txt');

    fileToUpload.name= "testFile.txt"

    alfrescoJsApi.upload.uploadFile(fileToUpload, 'Sites/test-site/documentLibrary')
        .then(function () {
            console.log('File Uploaded in the root');
        }, function (error) {
            console.log('Error during the upload' + error);
        });

}, function (error) {
    console.log("Error, cannot connect to Alfresco");
});

The previous code return the error :

Error during the uploadError: {"error":{"errorKey":"Required parameters are missing","statusCode":400,"briefSummary":"05010132 Required parameters are missing","stackTrace":"Pour des raisons de sécurité, le traçage de la pile n'est plus affiché, mais la propriété est conservée dans les versions précédente.","descriptionURL":"https://api-explorer.alfresco.com"}}

And I don't know what I am doing wrong, I tried every methods with differents parameters listed here : https://www.npmjs.com/package/alfresco-js-api#upload-file but always got the same error... If anyone could help me it would be great, thanks =)

---

EDIT : So I gave up this method, and start trying directly with rest requests, I managed to write this piece of code :

var http = require("http");
var options = {
  'host': 'localhost',
  'port': '8080',
  'path': '/alfresco/service/api/upload?alf_ticket='+ticket,
  'method': 'POST',
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
};

var fs = require('fs')
var fileToUpload = fs.createReadStream('./testFile.txt');
var body = {
    "filedata": fileToUpload,
    "filename": "testFile.txt",
    "description": "none",
    "siteid": "test-site",
    "containerid": "documentLibrary"
}

var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
    console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
    console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
        console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
    });
});

req.write(JSON.stringify(body));
req.end();

But, now, I have an error 500 ...

STATUS: 500
HEADERS: {"server":"Apache-Coyote/1.1","cache-control":"no-cache","expires":"Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT","pragma":"no-cache","content-type":"application/json;charset=UTF-8","transfer-encoding":"chunked","date":"Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:20:43 GMT","connection":"close"}
BODY: {
    "status" : 
  {
    "code" : 500,
    "name" : "Internal Error",
    "description" : "An error inside the HTTP server which prevented it from fulfilling the request."
  },  

  "message" : "05010287 Unexpected error occurred during upload of new content.",  
  "exception" : "",

  "callstack" : 
  [ 

  ],

  "server" : "Community v5.2.0 (r135134-b14) schema 10 005",
  "time" : "1 juin 2017 16:20:43"
}

I searched online, but I couldn't find any answers to this :/ Please if anyone have any idea ... thanks

Answer 1

So, I figured out how to upload a file :

var fs = require('fs')
var request = require('request')

var r = request.post('http://localhost:8080/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/nodes/-root-/children?alf_ticket='+JSON.parse(chunk).data.ticket, function callback(err, httpResponse, body) {
    if(err || JSON.parse(body).error) {
        return console.log('Upload failed : ' + body)
    }
        console.log('Upload success')
    })

var form = r.form()
form.append("name", "testFile.txt")
form.append("nodeType", "cm:content")
form.append("relativePath", "Sites/test-site/documentLibrary")
form.append("filedata",fs.createReadStream('./testFile.txt'))

Works fine to me =)