I am trying to follow along a tutorial and use nodejs with 'gridfs-stream' along with a react front end. The tutorial is from last year in 2020.
Here is my code.
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const cors = require('cors')
const multer = require('multer');
const {GridFsStorage} = require('multer-gridfs-storage');
const Grid = require('gridfs-stream');
const path = require('path');
const Pusher = require('pusher')
const mongoPosts = require ('./mongoPosts.js')
// const currentTournamentControllers = require('../controllers/currenttournament-controllers');
const app = express();
const port = process.env.PORT || 9000
app.use(bodyParser.json())
app.use(cors())
const mongoURI = 'mongodb+srv://fbclient:rmbmbkvZVHw3e6OK@cluster0.emaw1.mongodb.net/myFirstDatabase?retryWrites=true&w=majority'
const conn = mongoose.createConnection(mongoURI);
mongoose.connect(mongoURI)
mongoose.connection.once('open', () => {
console.log('DB Connected')
})
let gfs
conn.once('open', () => {
// Init stream
gfs = Grid(conn.db, mongoose.mongo);
gfs.collection('images');
});
const storage = new GridFsStorage({
url: mongoURI,
file: (req, file) => {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {{
const filename = `image-${Date.now()}${path.extname(file.originalname)}`
const fileInfo = {
filename: filename,
bucketName: 'images'
}
resolve (fileInfo)
}})
}
})
const upload = multer({storage})
app.get('/', (req, res) => res.status(200).send('hello world'))
app.post('/upload/image', upload.single('file'), (req, res) => {
res.status(201).send(req.file)
})
app.post('/upload/post', (req, res) => {
const dbPost = req.body
console.log(dbPost)
mongoPosts.create(dbPost, (err, data) => {
if(err){
res.status(500).send(err)
} else {
res.status(201).send(data)
}
})
})
app.get('/retrieve/image/single', (req, res) => {
console.log(req.query.name)
gfs.files.findOne({filename: req.query.name}, (err, file) => {
if(err) {
res.status(500).send(err)
} else {
console.log(file)
if(!file || file.length === 0) {
console.log("hi i errored out")
res.status(404).json({err: 'file not found'})
} else {
console.log("hi i am trying to read")
const readstream = gfs.createReadStream(file.filename)
readstream.pipe(res)
}
}
})
})
app.get('/retrieve/posts', (req, res) => {
mongoPosts.find((err, data) => {
if(err){
res.status(500).send(err)
} else {
data.sort((b,a) => {
return a.timestamp - b.timestamp
})
res.status(200).send(data)
}
})
})
app.listen(port, () => console.log(`listening on localhost:${port}`))
The problem is with readstream. When I am trying to retrieve the data it shows the error TypeError: grid.mongo.ObjectID is not a constructor
I did some debugging and figured out that this can be fixed by changing a value inside the gridfs.js file in the node_modules. The change being suggested on Stack Overflow was this :-
this._store = new grid.mongo.GridStore(grid.db, this.id || new grid.mongo.ObjectID(), this.name, this.mode, options);
changed to
this._store = new grid.mongo.GridStore(grid.db, this.id || new grid.mongo.ObjectId(), this.name, this.mode, options);
The suggestion was to change the grid.mongo.ObjectID value to grid.mongo.ObjectId. So I did that. Now the error coming out is as follows:-
TypeError: grid.mongo.GridStore is not a constructor
For this I am not getting any fixes on stack overflow or any other websites. Can someone please help