I'm writing a react native app where I'm supposed to send an array of files to an endpoint.
As per the FormData.append MDN docs:
As with regular form data, you can append multiple values with the same name. ... This technique makes it simpler to process multi-file uploads because the resultant data structure is more conducive to looping.
Hence, my code:
data.append('file', document);
// document is a document picker object
// {"size":...,"name":"...","uri":"...","type":"..."}
On sending the request, I get a 500 response with this error:
Cannot use object of type Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile as array
In plain English, the endpoint was expecting an array but it got a UploadedFile. Isn't FormData supposed to send an array?
What's the error in my code? If you need more code snippets, please, request.
From the error message, it sounds like your server-side technology is PHP. If so, you can tell PHP that file is an array by adding [] after it, e.g.:
data.append('file[]', document);
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