Laravel api - how to upload file

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I am building a web service for mobile application using Laravel. I need to let the users to upload images. I am using passport package. In developing environment I created a function store as follows

public function store(Request $request)
{
    return $request;
}

and using Firefox poster I post contents. These are the parameters

The problem is the function store always returns empty array while I expect it to return information about the file. What is wrong here?

thanks

M a m a D · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-14 16:01:05Z

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I found it. Firefox Poster has problems with this. I used Chrome Postman. I removed all the headers and set a key for file. as follows

it is header

and this is the code

public function store(Request $request)
{
    $file = $request->file('image');
    return $file->getClientOriginalExtension();
}

answered Oct 14, 2018 at 16:01

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Paras · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-14 09:41:48Z

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Returning $request will not work. If you want to check if the file exists, try return $request->allFiles()

answered Oct 14, 2018 at 9:41

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Paras Over a year ago

Does it display an empty array?

M a m a D Over a year ago

yes. an empty array is returned, Is there any problem with the headers?

Paras Over a year ago

yes, it's not reaching the backend. Probably best to try sending a file using a FormData object

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