primeNG fileupload to byte[]

Question

how i can get te byte[] from file upload using the primeNg fileupload i need to save it in a model to persist in my database java backend: in the backend i have this

 Class User{ List<UserDocument> } class UserDocument{ @Column(name = "name", length = 100, nullable = false) private String name; @Column(name = "description", length = 255) private String description; @Column(name = "type", length = 100, nullable = false) private String type; @Lob @Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) @Column(name = "content", nullable = false) private byte[] content; @ManyToOne(optional = false) @JoinColumn(name = "USER_ID") private User user; } 

so in angular 6 i also have the user and userdocuments model, i dont need to post the upload files before the user because the user dont exist at this time...

i need to create the user with their usedocuments at same time.

so in angular i have a form with username filds, etc, and the primeng fileupload, what i do is when you upload at file, i get the event and create a new userDocument model from event.files

  onUpload(event) {
    let fileReader = new FileReader();
    for (let file of event.files) {
      const userDocument: UserDocument = new UserDocument();
      userDocument.name = file.name;
      userDocument.description = file.description;
      userDocument.type = file.type;
      userDocument.content = file; /// i need to set here the file byte[]
    }
  }

in angular userDocument.content is a any[]

im trying, how i can get the byte[] from file?

thanks

Answer 1

To get the BASE64 string, you should do:

  onUpload(event) {
    let fileReader = new FileReader();
    for (let file of event.files) {
      fileReader.readAsDataURL(file);
      fileReader.onload = function () {
          // Will print the base64 here.
          console.log(reader.result);
      };
    }
  }

Alternately, if you'd rather send the data as multipart instead of JSON, you can do:

  onUpload(event) {
    var fd = new FormData();
    for (let file of event.files) {
      fd.append('file', file);
    }
    // POST the data to the backend
    this.http.post(url, fd);
  }