HapiJS not accepting form-data requests - hapi.js

Question

Using HapiJS 19 on Linux.
I am in the process of upgrading an older version of a back-end (hapi-16) and in the older version sending form-data would work just fine, but for some reason I get:
{
"statusCode": 415,
"error": "Unsupported Media Type",
"message": "Unsupported Media Type"
}
It seems as if I need something added to my hapi server in order to accept form-data.
Here is my server file:
const hapi = require('#hapi/hapi');
// const HapiAuthCookie = require('hapi-auth-cookie');
const CORS = { cors: true };
const SERVER_SETTINGS = { host: 'localhost', port: 8040, routes: CORS };
const server = hapi.server(SERVER_SETTINGS);
const endpoints = require('./routes.js');
// connect to database
require('../db/dbconn.js');
module.exports = {
start: async() => {
// plugin registration
await server.register([]);
server.route(endpoints,
{ prefix: '/dart-api' }
);
// start server
try {
await server.start();
console.log(`Server running on: ${server.info.uri}`);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
}
};
// Graceful server stop
process.on('SIGINT', () => {
/* eslint-disable-next-line */
console.warn('\n\n>> Stopping Hapi server ...');
server.stop({ timeout: 100 }).then((err) => {
if (err) {
console.log('Hapi server stopped');
throw err;
}
});
}); // server.stop {ends}
process.on('unhandledRejection', (err) => {
console.log(err);
throw err;
});
I'll appreciate some help.
Thanks in advance.
Update: I've done some testing with different clients with the same result. Here is the response when I use curl:
curl http://localhost:8040/users/avatars -X PUT -F 'files=#/home/ralvez/.downloads/ICONS/ricavatar.png' -vvv
* Trying 127.0.0.1:8040...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8040 (#0)
> PUT /users/avatars HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:8040
> User-Agent: curl/7.70.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 17433
> Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------0e59b1780748d1d6
>
* We are completely uploaded and fine
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 415 Unsupported Media Type
< content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< vary: origin
< access-control-expose-headers: WWW-Authenticate,Server-Authorization
< cache-control: no-cache
< content-length: 86
< Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 17:27:01 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
{"statusCode":415,"error":"Unsupported Media Type","message":"Unsupported Media Type"}
This make no sense to me since my handler is like this:
{
method: 'PUT',
path: '/users/avatars',
handler: users.updateAvatar,
options: {
payload: {
output: 'stream',
parse: true,
allow: 'multipart/form-data'
}
}
},
there is no doubt in my mind that this is ready to accept form-data, yet it is rejecting with "statusCode": 415, "error": "Unsupported Media Type",
what gives?!

Answer 1

OK. After much searching and after realizing this HAD to be related to the version of HapiJS I'm using I found someone else had the same problem.
Here is the link:
[Fix Hapi version 19.0.3 error 415 unsupported media type upload file with multipart/form-data
So I decided to change my route as follows:
{
method: 'PUT',
path: '/users/avatars',
handler: users.updateAvatar,
options: {
payload: {
output: 'stream',
parse: true,
allow: 'multipart/form-data',
multipart: true
}
}
},
and it works.
A shorter version also works:
{
method: 'PUT',
path: '/users/avatars',
handler: users.updateAvatar,
options: {
payload: {
multipart: true
}
}
},