File upload example for javascript returns No file found in request.

[LindaLawton]

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I tried to run the file upload example for javascript

The file exits as i added a check for it

// Check if the file exists
if (!fs.existsSync(filePath)) {
    console.log(`File '${filePath}' does not exist` );
}

When i run the sample i get

GaxiosError: No file found in request. at Gaxios._request (C:\Development\Gemini\nodejs\gemini_samples_node\node_modules\gaxios\build\src\gaxios.js:144:23) at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) at async JWT.requestAsync (C:\Development\Gemini\nodejs\gemini_samples_node\node_modules\google-auth-library\build\src\auth\oauth2client.js:405:18) at async run (C:\Development\Gemini\nodejs\gemini_samples_node\test2.js:30:36) { config: { url: 'https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/upload/v1beta/files?uploadType=multipart', method: 'POST', userAgentDirectives: [ { product: 'google-api-nodejs-client', version: '7.1.0', comment: 'gzip' } ], paramsSerializer: [Function (anonymous)], data: PassThrough { _readableState: ReadableState { objectMode: false, highWaterMark: 16384, buffer: BufferList { head: null, tail: null, length: 0 }, length: 0, pipes: [], flowing: false, ended: true, endEmitted: true, reading: false, constructed: true, sync: false, needReadable: false, emittedReadable: false, readableListening: false, resumeScheduled: false, errorEmitted: false, emitClose: true, autoDestroy: true, destroyed: true, errored: null, closed: true, closeEmitted: true, defaultEncoding: 'utf8', awaitDrainWriters: null, multiAwaitDrain: false, readingMore: false, dataEmitted: true, decoder: null, encoding: null, [Symbol(kPaused)]: true }, _events: [Object: null prototype] { prefinish: [Function: prefinish], error: [Function (anonymous)] }, _eventsCount: 2, _maxListeners: undefined, _writableState: WritableState { objectMode: false, highWaterMark: 16384, finalCalled: true, needDrain: false, ending: true, ended: true, finished: true, destroyed: true, decodeStrings: true, defaultEncoding: 'utf8', length: 0, writing: false, corked: 0, sync: false, bufferProcessing: false, onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite], writecb: null, writelen: 0, afterWriteTickInfo: null, buffered: [], bufferedIndex: 0, allBuffers: true, allNoop: true, pendingcb: 0, constructed: true, prefinished: true, errorEmitted: false, emitClose: true, autoDestroy: true, errored: null, closed: true, closeEmitted: true, [Symbol(kOnFinished)]: [] }, allowHalfOpen: true, _flush: [Function: flush], [Symbol(kCapture)]: false, [Symbol(kCallback)]: null }, headers: { 'x-goog-api-client': 'gdcl/7.1.0 gl-node/18.16.1', 'content-type': 'multipart/related; boundary=cf9e6ad4-9c0e-4e75-9a86-01de5c3e849f', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip', 'User-Agent': 'google-api-nodejs-client/7.1.0 (gzip)', 'X-Goog-Api-Key': '[REDACTED]' }, params: { uploadType: 'multipart' }, validateStatus: [Function (anonymous)], retry: true, body: PassThrough { _readableState: ReadableState { objectMode: false, highWaterMark: 16384, buffer: BufferList { head: null, tail: null, length: 0 }, length: 0, pipes: [], flowing: false, ended: true, endEmitted: true, reading: false, constructed: true, sync: false, needReadable: false, emittedReadable: false, readableListening: false, resumeScheduled: false, errorEmitted: false, emitClose: true, autoDestroy: true, destroyed: true, errored: null, closed: true, closeEmitted: true, defaultEncoding: 'utf8', awaitDrainWriters: null, multiAwaitDrain: false, readingMore: false, dataEmitted: true, decoder: null, encoding: null, [Symbol(kPaused)]: true }, _events: [Object: null prototype] { prefinish: [Function: prefinish], error: [Function (anonymous)] }, _eventsCount: 2, _maxListeners: undefined, _writableState: WritableState { objectMode: false, highWaterMark: 16384, finalCalled: true, needDrain: false, ending: true, ended: true, finished: true, destroyed: true, decodeStrings: true, defaultEncoding: 'utf8', length: 0, writing: false, corked: 0, sync: false, bufferProcessing: false, onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite], writecb: null, writelen: 0, afterWriteTickInfo: null, buffered: [], bufferedIndex: 0, allBuffers: true, allNoop: true, pendingcb: 0, constructed: true, prefinished: true, errorEmitted: false, emitClose: true, autoDestroy: true, errored: null, closed: true, closeEmitted: true, [Symbol(kOnFinished)]: [] }, allowHalfOpen: true, _flush: [Function: flush], [Symbol(kCapture)]: false, [Symbol(kCallback)]: null }, responseType: 'unknown', errorRedactor: [Function: defaultErrorRedactor], retryConfig: { currentRetryAttempt: 0, retry: 3, httpMethodsToRetry: [ 'GET', 'HEAD', 'PUT', 'OPTIONS', 'DELETE' ], noResponseRetries: 2, statusCodesToRetry: [ [ 100, 199 ], [ 429, 429 ], [ 500, 599 ] ] } }, response: { config: { url: 'https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/upload/v1beta/files?uploadType=multipart', method: 'POST', userAgentDirectives: [ { product: 'google-api-nodejs-client', version: '7.1.0', comment: 'gzip' } ], paramsSerializer: [Function (anonymous)], data: PassThrough { _readableState: ReadableState { objectMode: false, highWaterMark: 16384, buffer: BufferList { head: null, tail: null, length: 0 }, length: 0, pipes: [], flowing: false, ended: true, endEmitted: true, reading: false, constructed: true, sync: false, needReadable: false, emittedReadable: false, readableListening: false, resumeScheduled: false, errorEmitted: false, emitClose: true, autoDestroy: true, destroyed: true, errored: null, closed: true, closeEmitted: true, defaultEncoding: 'utf8', awaitDrainWriters: null, multiAwaitDrain: false, readingMore: false, dataEmitted: true, decoder: null, encoding: null, [Symbol(kPaused)]: true }, _events: [Object: null prototype] { prefinish: [Function: prefinish], error: [Function (anonymous)] }, _eventsCount: 2, _maxListeners: undefined, _writableState: WritableState { objectMode: false, highWaterMark: 16384, finalCalled: true, needDrain: false, ending: true, ended: true, finished: true, destroyed: true, decodeStrings: true, defaultEncoding: 'utf8', length: 0, writing: false, corked: 0, sync: false, bufferProcessing: false, onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite], writecb: null, writelen: 0, afterWriteTickInfo: null, buffered: [], bufferedIndex: 0, allBuffers: true, allNoop: true, pendingcb: 0, constructed: true, prefinished: true, errorEmitted: false, emitClose: true, autoDestroy: true, errored: null, closed: true, closeEmitted: true, [Symbol(kOnFinished)]: [] }, allowHalfOpen: true, _flush: [Function: flush], [Symbol(kCapture)]: false, [Symbol(kCallback)]: null }, headers: { 'x-goog-api-client': 'gdcl/7.1.0 gl-node/18.16.1', 'content-type': 'multipart/related; boundary=cf9e6ad4-9c0e-4e75-9a86-01de5c3e849f', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip', 'User-Agent': 'google-api-nodejs-client/7.1.0 (gzip)', 'X-Goog-Api-Key': '[REDACTED]' }, params: { uploadType: 'multipart' }, validateStatus: [Function (anonymous)], retry: true, body: PassThrough { _readableState: ReadableState { objectMode: false, highWaterMark: 16384, buffer: BufferList { head: null, tail: null, length: 0 }, length: 0, pipes: [], flowing: false, ended: true, endEmitted: true, reading: false, constructed: true, sync: false, needReadable: false, emittedReadable: false, readableListening: false, resumeScheduled: false, errorEmitted: false, emitClose: true, autoDestroy: true, destroyed: true, errored: null, closed: true, closeEmitted: true, defaultEncoding: 'utf8', awaitDrainWriters: null, multiAwaitDrain: false, readingMore: false, dataEmitted: true, decoder: null, encoding: null, [Symbol(kPaused)]: true }, _events: [Object: null prototype] { prefinish: [Function: prefinish], error: [Function (anonymous)] }, _eventsCount: 2, _maxListeners: undefined, _writableState: WritableState { objectMode: false, highWaterMark: 16384, finalCalled: true, needDrain: false, ending: true, ended: true, finished: true, destroyed: true, decodeStrings: true, defaultEncoding: 'utf8', length: 0, writing: false, corked: 0, sync: false, bufferProcessing: false, onwrite: [Function: bound onwrite], writecb: null, writelen: 0, afterWriteTickInfo: null, buffered: [], bufferedIndex: 0, allBuffers: true, allNoop: true, pendingcb: 0, constructed: true, prefinished: true, errorEmitted: false, emitClose: true, autoDestroy: true, errored: null, closed: true, closeEmitted: true, [Symbol(kOnFinished)]: [] }, allowHalfOpen: true, _flush: [Function: flush], [Symbol(kCapture)]: false, [Symbol(kCallback)]: null }, responseType: 'unknown', errorRedactor: [Function: defaultErrorRedactor] }, data: 'No file found in request.', headers: { 'alt-svc': 'h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000', connection: 'close', 'content-length': '25', 'content-type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8', date: 'Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:38:14 GMT', server: 'UploadServer', 'x-guploader-uploadid': 'ABPtcPqNkgTHmrQKds3j_Ta0oLJiLONuY30frVrqh61kdQLK-YokDMT1RFx5H3EY38h3ivp7bvo' }, status: 400, statusText: 'Bad Request', request: { responseURL: 'https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/upload/v1beta/files?uploadType=multipart' } }, error: undefined, status: 400, [Symbol(gaxios-gaxios-error)]: '6.4.0' }

Update

I did find that this works loading just the file path.

const media = {
        mimeType: mime.lookup(filePath),
        body: filePath,
    };

It seams its the loading the stream thats not working.

[TYMichaelChen]

Hi Linda - thanks for reporting this. I'd like to understand the issue with fs.createReadStream a bit more. Can you try running the sample code from the repo and see if that succeeds? If not can you provide the error and what env you're running with? readme

[markmcd]

Hey @LindaLawton - could you provide @TYMichaelChen with any more info?

[LindaLawton]

sorry @markmcd I havent touched this since then. I dont use env vars as there is really no need when you are passing the api key directly.

 API_KEY = process.env.GOOGLE_API_KEY;