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

[LindaLawton]

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;

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[markmcd]

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.

I think @TYMichaelChen meant the general environment, not the specific vars. e.g. I tested on Linux with Node 18.19 and it worked fine.

It looks like you're using Windows - the only thing I can think of is that the / in the path might cause issues. Though you say that fs.existsSync succeeds, and the error is not Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory when opening the stream.

See if #279 helps?

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