Parse.Files cannot be created if over 512MB

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Issue Description

Files larger than 512MB are not able to be uploaded to Parse Server as Parse.Files.

The files are converted to stings, which is more than Node can handle.

Steps to reproduce

Upload a file bigger than 512MB.

Actual Outcome

Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters

    at Object.slice (node:buffer:654:37)

    at Buffer.toString (node:buffer:824:14)

    at createHandler (/project/server/node_modules/parse-server/lib/Routers/FilesRouter.js:153:29)

    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/project/server/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)

    at next (/project/server/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:144:13)

    at handleParseSession (/project/server/node_modules/parse-server/lib/middlewares.js:281:7)

    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/project/server/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)

    at next (/project/server/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:144:13)

    at handleRateLimit (/project/server/node_modules/parse-server/lib/middlewares.js:275:3)

    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) {

  code: 'ERR_STRING_TOO_LONG'

This appears to come from this line: https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/6.3.1/src/Routers/FilesRouter.js#L175

Expected Outcome

The Parse.File to be created.

Environment

Server

• Parse Server version: 6.3.1
• Operating system: Linux
• Local or remote host (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, Digital Ocean, etc): Aptible

Database

• System (MongoDB or Postgres): MongoDB
• Database version: 4.0
• Local or remote host (MongoDB Atlas, mLab, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc): Aptible

Client

• SDK (iOS, Android, JavaScript, PHP, Unity, etc): Android
• SDK version: 4.2.0

Logs

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[mtrezza]

This is an expected limitation of the V8 engine. Large files should be uploaded in a different way, like streaming or multi-part. Not sure what the file adapter already supports. A "workaround" could be to break the base64 conversion up into parts instead of converting the whole string at once. But even then a var would hold the entire file in memory, which may again run into limitations. Maybe the conversion can be made unnecessary if req.body is already a buffer and we could simply const file = new Parse.File(filename, { buffer: fileBuffer }, contentType);.