drive.files.create creates a file with 0 bytes

Environment details

• OS: macOS 11.4
• Node.js version: 14.16.1
• npm version: 6.14.12
• googleapis version: 78.0.0

Description

Files uploaded to Google Drive using a stream or buffer have length of zero bytes. No errors anywhere. Works only when body is a string, but how do you make a string from a binary file and how do you specify the charset for a text file?

Steps to reproduce

const { google } = require('googleapis');
const Readable = require('stream').Readable;

async function uploadToGoogle(googlePrivateKey) {
  const scopes = [
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'
  ];

  const auth = new google.auth.JWT(
    ***********@**********.iam.gserviceaccount.com', null,
    googlePrivateKey, scopes
  );

  const drive = google.drive({ version: 'v3', auth });

  const buffer = Buffer.from('Test data 1', 'latin1');
  
  const driveFile = await drive.files.create({
    requestBody: {
      name: 'testfile.txt',
      mimeType: 'text/plain',
      parents: [
        '***************************************'
      ],
      supportsAllDrives: true
    },
    media: {
      mimeType: 'text/plain',
      body: new Readable(buffer)
    }
  });
}

[tapz]

@Rafahur03

const axios = require('axios');
const { v4: uuidv4 } = require('uuid');

const { google } = require('googleapis');

const drive = google.drive({ version: 'v3', auth });

const res = await drive.files.list({
  q: `'${rootFolderId}' in parents`,
  pageSize: '1000',
  supportsAllDrives: 'true',
});

const folderId = res.data.files.find(f => f.name === folderName)?.id;

const boundary = uuidv4();
const jsonBody = JSON.stringify({
  name: filename,
  parents: [folderId]
});

const bodyHead = 
  `--${boundary}\r\n` + 
  'content-type: application/json\r\n' + 
  '\r\n' +
  `${jsonBody}\r\n` + 
  `--${boundary}\r\n` + 
  `content-type: ${mimeType}\r\n` + 
  'content-transfer-encoding: binary\r\n' +
  `content-length: ${buffer.length}\r\n` +
  '\r\n';

const bodyTail = `\r\n--${boundary}--`;

const response = await axios.post(
  'https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files?fields=id&uploadType=multipart', 
  Buffer.concat([
    Buffer.from(bodyHead),
    buffer,
    Buffer.from(bodyTail)
  ]), {
  headers: {
    'content-type': `multipart/related; boundary=${boundary}`,
    Authorization: res.config.headers.Authorization,
    Accept: 'application/json'
  }
});

[OlivierChirouze]

@tapz, you saved my day!