unable to upload file through box api from express

app.post('/upload', async (req, res) => {

try {

const file = req.files.file;

const ACCESS_TOKEN = req.cookies.access_token;

const url = 'https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/content';

const fileData = fs.promises.open(file.tempFilePath);

fs.promises.read(fileData);

const response = await axios.post(

url,

{

attributes: {

name: file.name,

parent: { id: '0' },

content_created_at: `${new Date()}`,

content_modified_at: `${new Date()}`

}

{ file: form },

{

headers: {

Authorization: `Bearer ${ACCESS_TOKEN}`,

'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'

withCredentials: true

}

);

// const data = file.data;

res.status(200).json({ success: true, response });

} catch (error) {

//console.log(error);

res.status(400).json(error);

}

});

while uploading file getting this error

{"message": "Request failed with status code 415","name": "AxiosError","stack": "AxiosError: Request failed with status code 415\n at settle (/home/rohit/Opayl/learnNode/opyalBox/node_modules/axios/dist/node/axios.cjs:1896:12)\n at IncomingMessage.handleStreamEnd (/home/rohit/Opayl/learnNode/opyalBox/node_modules/axios/dist/node/axios.cjs:2940:11)\n at IncomingMessage.emit (node:events:525:35)\n at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1359:12)\n at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)","config": {"transitional": {"silentJSONParsing": true,"forcedJSONParsing": true,"clarifyTimeoutError": false},"adapter": ["xhr","http"],"transformRequest": [null],"transformResponse": [null],"timeout": 0,"xsrfCookieName": "XSRF-TOKEN","xsrfHeaderName": "X-XSRF-TOKEN","maxContentLength": -1,"maxBodyLength": -1,"env": {},"headers": {"Accept": "application/json, text/plain, */*","Content-Type": "application/json","User-Agent": "axios/1.3.2","Content-Length": "212","Accept-Encoding": "gzip, compress, deflate, br"},"file": {},"method": "post","url": "https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/content","data": "{\"attributes\":{\"name\":\"new.txt\",\"parent\":{\"id\":\"0\"},\"content_created_at\":\"Wed Feb 15 2023 10:08:29 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)\",\"content_modified_at\":\"Wed Feb 15 2023 10:08:29 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)\"}}"},"code": "ERR_BAD_REQUEST","status": 415}

need help

Alex Novotny

February 15, 2023 16:43

Hi There,

It looks like something is wrong with the request, but I can't quite tell what. Can you review our documentation and use some of the sample code shown on there - then try again?

https://developer.box.com/guides/uploads/direct/file/

https://developer.box.com/reference/post-files-content/

Thanks

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