how to pass data along with files from angular controller to node server?

Question

I am passing some data from angular.js controller in following format:

data: { model: { title: 'hello'}, files: $scope.files}

I am able to get this in node.js by doing this:

req.files

Now I want to send one more data with existing data, so I tried doing this:

data: { model: { title: 'hello', id:newId}, files: $scope.files}

but when I did req.id . I am getting undefined .

What I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

In angular, pass by combining in formdata :

var fd = new FormData();
fd.append("object", JSON.stringify($scope.yourJsonObject)); //pass json here
fd.append("files", $scope.files);

//wild card(*/*) consumes type
$http.post("Your URL", fd, {
    transformRequest: angular.identity,
    headers: {'Content-Type': undefined}
});

Then retrive object and files separately by their names.

Answer 2

In post call the data is present in body of request obj try to find out your data in req obj like this

   console.log(req.body)

on server side