'use strict'; var http = require('http'), formidable = require('formidable'), fs = require('fs'), _ = require('lodash'); var options = { host: 'localhost', port: 8989 }; var server = http.createServer(function(req,res) { console.log('POST Detected with incoming Form-data...'); var form = new formidable.IncomingForm(); form.parse(req, function(err, fields, files) { console.log('POST Finished and publishing object back to browser...'); var headers = {}; headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'; headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = req.headers.origin; headers["Access-Control-Allow-Methods"] = "POST, GET, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS"; headers["Access-Control-Allow-Credentials"] = true; headers["Access-Control-Max-Age"] = '86400'; // 24 hours headers["Access-Control-Allow-Headers"] = "X-Requested-With, X-HTTP-Method-Override, Access-Control-Allow-Origin, Content-Type, Accept"; res.writeHead(200, headers); var output = {}; _.extend(output, unflatten(fields)); if (!_.isEmpty(files)) { for (var i in files) { if (files.hasOwnProperty(i)) { output[i] = {}; fs.readFile(files[i].path, function (err, data) { output[i].type = files[i].type; output[i].size = files[i].size; output[i].name = files[i].name; output[i].lastModifiedDate = files[i].lastModifiedDate; output[i].data = 'data:' + files[i].type + ';base64,' + data.toString('base64'); }); } } } console.info(output); res.end(JSON.stringify(output)); }); }); function unflatten(obj, output) { var re = /^([^\[\]]+)\[(.+)\]$/g; output = output || {}; for (var key in obj) { var value = obj[key]; if (!key.toString().match(re)) { var tempOut = {}; tempOut[key] = value; _.extend(output, tempOut); } else { var keys = _.compact(key.split(re)), tempOut = {}; tempOut[keys[1]] = value; output[keys[0]] = unflatten( tempOut, output[keys[0]] ) } } return output; } server.listen(options.port, options.host); console.log("listening on " + options.host + ':' + options.port);