req.file() isn't able to fetch multiple files - html

Question

My html code is
<form action="/file_upload" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="photos" id="photos" accept='image/*' multiple>
<input type="submit" value="Upload" id="upload_my_photos" disabled>
</form>
In sails I am using
uploadFiles = req.file("photos");
This is only fetching just single file.
Edit : I would also like to save the individual files. Below is the code I am using but no files are getting uploaded:
req.file('photos').upload(function (err, uploadedPhotos) {
if (err) return res.serverError(err);
async.eachSeries(uploadedPhotos,
function (uploadedFile, callback) {
sails.log("upload file size and name is " + uploadedFile.size + " " + uploadedFile.filename);
req.file(uploadedFile).upload({
dirname: "path/to/directory",
// saveAs: function (file, cb) { cb(null, file.filename); }
},
function onUploadComplete(err, files) {
if (err) return res.serverError(err);
if (files.length === 0) {
return res.badRequest('No file was uploaded');
}
sails.log("files uploaded");
});
}, function (err) {
// if any of the saves produced an error, err would equal that error
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
return res.status(200).send({ success: false, message: "failed to upload" });
}
});
});

Answer 1

Sails req.file() is representing an incoming multipart file upload from the specified field.
You need to subscribe to the request with a callback in which the uploaded files will be passed as an second argument:
req.file('photos').upload(function (err, uploadedPhotos){
if (err) return res.serverError(err);
return res.json({
message: uploadedPhotos.length + ' file(s) uploaded successfully!',
files: uploadedPhotos
});
});