Attach() should put files on request.files?

Hello, this is more a doubt than a issue.

I’m using the method attach() to simulate a file upload to a express middleware. I was expecting that the request.files would be filled with the information of the attached file, but instead I’m receiving an undefined variable on request.

Am I doing something wrong?

request(app)
      .post('/test')
      .attach('image', __dirname + '/fixtures/fatcat.jpeg')
      .expect('Content-Type', /json/)
      .expect('Content-Length', '15')
      .expect(201)
      .end(function(err, res){
        if (err) throw err;
        done();
      });

middleware

return function handler(req, res, next) {
      console.log(req.files); // returns undefined :(
}

Thanks in advance.

[radiumrasheed]

my solution was to use.field()s along with .attach() (if i remember correctly i even got a warning sometime that .send() and .attach() don’t work together)

i’ve encountered so many issues with multer and multipart form data, so i’d rather handle base64 via json

      return request
        .post('/api/v1/client/1/progress_note')
        .field('answers', progressNoteData.answers)
        .field('duration', progressNoteData.duration)
        .field('templateId', progressNoteData.templateId)
        .field('service', progressNoteData.service)
        .field('service_time', progressNoteData.service_time)
        .attach('attachment', 'test/mock-data/sample-image.png')

[ghost]

my solution was to use.field()s along with .attach() (if i remember correctly i even got a warning sometime that .send() and .attach() don’t work together)

i’ve encountered so many issues with multer and multipart form data, so i’d rather handle base64 via json