Send an image to nodejs api by nextjs api folder

Question

I a I have a file instance which i got from formidable library. It looks like this

photo: File {
    _events: [Object: null prototype] {},
    _eventsCount: 0,
    _maxListeners: undefined,
    size: 16648,
    path: 'public/upload_1.jpg',
    name: 'test.jpg',
    type: 'image/jpeg',
    hash: null,
    lastModifiedDate: 2021-07-08T11:22:05.804Z,
    _writeStream: WriteStream {
      _writableState: [WritableState],
      writable: false,
      _events: [Object: null prototype] {},
      _eventsCount: 0,
      _maxListeners: undefined,
      path: 'public/upload_1.jpg',
      fd: null,
      flags: 'w',
      mode: 438,
      start: undefined,
      autoClose: true,
      pos: undefined,
      bytesWritten: 16648,
      closed: false
    }
  }

Now i need to pass this image to an external nodejs api which is expecting the image in

req.file('photo')

format.

Pls help how to send the above instance to nodejs api.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Serverside FormData and fs.createReadStream worked like a charm to me.