Uploading an image to Google Cloud storage from webpage

Question

I'm using the documentation Google have provided here to try to upload images from a webpage to Google Cloud storage. I think the storage has been set up correctly and I think I've gotten the correct values.

When used, the image is recognised, but for some reason it's not uploading. I'm unsure whether it's the code or how the environment is set up. Also, no error messages are being reported. I know the image is going into the function through the event.

The javascript is...

        /**
         * Google Cloud Storage API request to insert an object into
         * your Google Cloud Storage bucket.
         */
        function insertObject(event) {
            try {
                //var MyFile = document.getElementById("take-picture").files;
                var fileData = event.target.files[0];
                //var fileData = document.getElementById("take-picture").files;
            } 
            catch(e) {
                //'Insert Object' selected from the API Commands select list
                //Display insert object button and then exit function
                //filePicker.style.display = 'block';
                return;
            }
          var boundary = '-------314159265358979323846';
          var delimiter = "\r\n--" + boundary + "\r\n";
          var close_delim = "\r\n--" + boundary + "--";

            var reader = new FileReader();
            reader.readAsBinaryString(fileData);
            reader.onload = function(e) {
                var contentType = fileData.type || 'application/octet-stream';
                var metadata = {
                    'name': fileData.name,
                    'mimeType': contentType
                };

                var base64Data = btoa(reader.result);
                var multipartRequestBody =
                  delimiter +
                  'Content-Type: application/json\r\n\r\n' +
                  JSON.stringify(metadata) +
                  delimiter +
                  'Content-Type: ' + contentType + '\r\n' +
                  'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n' +
                  '\r\n' +
                  base64Data +
                  close_delim;

                //Note: gapi.client.storage.objects.insert() can only insert
                //small objects (under 64k) so to support larger file sizes
                //we're using the generic HTTP request method gapi.client.request()
                var request = gapi.client.request({
                    'path': '/upload/storage/' + API_VERSION + '/b/' + BUCKET + '/o',
                    'method': 'POST',
                    'params': {'uploadType': 'multipart'},
                    'headers': {
                        'Content-Type': 'multipart/mixed; boundary="' + boundary + '"'
                    },
                    'body': multipartRequestBody});
                //Remove the current API result entry in the main-content div
                //listChildren = document.getElementById('main-content').childNodes;
                //if (listChildren.length > 1) {
                //    listChildren[1].parentNode.removeChild(listChildren[1]);
                //} 

                //look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30317797/uploading-additional-metadata-as-part-of-file-upload-request-to-google-cloud-sto

                try{
                    //Execute the insert object request
                    executeRequest(request, 'insertObject');
                    //Store the name of the inserted object 
                    object = fileData.name;         
                }
                catch(e) {
                    alert('An error has occurred: ' + e.message);
                }
            }
        }

Answer 1

Not quite sure where the problem is.

But in my working code, I'm using

var metadata = {
    'title': fileData.fileName || fileData.name,
    'parents': [{
    "kind": "drive#fileLink",
            "id": folderId
    }],
    'mimeType': contentType
};

So your code may missing the ID of your folder

API Request:

var request = gapi.client.request({
        'path': '/upload/drive/v2/files',
        'method': 'POST',
        'params': {'uploadType': 'multipart'},
        'headers': {
          'Content-Type': 'multipart/mixed; boundary="' + boundary + '"'
        },
        'body': multipartRequestBody
});

FYR.