Question: How to use inside Google Cloud Run?

Question: How to use inside Google Cloud Run?

Is it possible to use Buffer.from(req.rawBody, "base64") instead of req inside Google Cloud Run =>

const form = new Formidable({
  uploadDir: os.tmpdir(),
  keepExtensions: true,
});
const [fields, files] = await form.parse(Buffer.from(req.rawBody, "base64"));

@boustanihani

@boustanihani heya

you should be able to pass request-like object that has a binary req.body and req.headers (nodejs like headers, i think object)

that would be a lot easier and supported with v4. You can try formidable@next with parseMultipart(body, { boundary: 'boundary here' }) or parseMultipartRequest as seen here #1011 (comment)

Thanks, I will wait until v4 gets released and test this.

@boustanihani

@boustanihani I had a need for this as well (I had to preserve the rawBody for some security check). It seems like it's working well with v3 already, as @tunnckoCore mentioned, when you re-construct the request. This worked for me:

  const rawBody = req.body as Buffer;
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const form = formidable({
      keepExtensions: true,
    });

    const stream = new Readable();
    stream.push(rawBody);
    stream.push(null);
    (stream as IncomingMessage).headers = {
      ...req.headers,
      'content-length': rawBody.length.toString(),
    };

    form.parse(stream as IncomingMessage, (err, fields, files) => {
     // parsing fields/files here
   }

When will v4 be ready :) ?

@boustanihani

@boustanihani sorry, a bit packed with other stuff, probably after new year. But it's in preview in the next dist-tag, nothing much to be changed in there apart from some security measures against a big security vulnerability I was reported that all prior versions has - and have a patch ready for v2 & v3 versions.

@PaulvanMotman

Thanks, I am currently using the workaround @PaulvanMotman suggested, it works :)

@tunnckoCore

@tunnckoCore do we have an official example for usage inside Google Cloud Run somewhere?

I checked https://github.com/node-formidable/formidable/tree/master/examples and also the docs but couldn't find anything relevant,

@boustanihani

@boustanihani oh, sorry. Well, we don't have. But it's something close to #594 (eg. formidable-serverless), i believe, no?

@boustanihani oh, sorry. Well, we don't have. But it's something close to #594 (eg. formidable-serverless), i believe, no?

Yes, it's the same subject, but this one is specifically for Cloud Run :)

@boustanihani

@boustanihani oh! gosh, i always mis-read that ;d

well, the new api would be more minimal and standards compliant so it won't have such problems to begin with.

(i'm referring v4)

When do you expect v4 to be officially released?

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tunnckoCore commented on Jul 22, 2025

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