Can't Get Image_id From Cloudinary In Nodejs

I'm using Node.js and Express. I just implement Cloudinary to upload image from user, and store the image id to my MySQL database. I tried this tutorial from Cloudinary's documenta

Solution 1:

I guess the docs in cloudinary site is wrong or outdated. Try verifying your upload as below. It should work.

router.post('/submit/idea', function(req, res, next){
  /*REMOVE THESE PARTS. I guess these are not needed any more. 
    var url = require('url')  
    var url_parts = url.parse(req.body.coverurl, true)
    var query = url_parts.query
   *///Directy pass coverurl to PreloadedFile method. var preloaded_file = new cloudinary.PreloadedFile(req.body.coverurl)
  if (preloaded_file.is_valid()) {
    var image_id = preloaded_file.identifier()
    console.log("Img ID:" + image_id);
    // add image_id to mysql
  } else {
    console.log("Invalid upload signature")
  }
})

Solution 2:

Yalamber got it right. Our documentation is out of date! 😟

Because the form uses POST and not GET, the image_id field is provided in the body of the request rather than the URL query parameters.

You can see the correct behaviour in our sample project photo_album, specifically in create_direct() (abridged below):

functioncreate_direct(req,res){
  var photo = newPhoto(req.body);
  var image = new cloudinary.PreloadedFile(req.body.image_id);
  if (image.is_valid()){
    photo.image = image.toJSON();
  }
  photo.save().then(function(photo){
    console.log('** photo saved');
  }).catch(function(err){
    console.dir(err);
  }).finally(function(){
    res.render('photos/create_direct',{photo:photo,upload:photo.image});
  });
}

Thanks for noticing! We will update our documentation very soon.

-- Cloudinary