Angular File Upload

Question

I\'m a beginner with Angular, I want to know how to create Angular 5 File upload part, I\'m trying to find any tutorial or doc, but I don\'t see anything a

Answer 1

First, you need to set up HttpClient in your Angular project.

Open the src/app/app.module.ts file, import HttpClientModule and add it to the imports array of the module as follows:

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';  
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';  
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';  
import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';

@NgModule({  
  declarations: [  
    AppComponent,  
  ],  
  imports: [  
    BrowserModule,  
    AppRoutingModule,  
    HttpClientModule  
  ],  
  providers: [],  
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]  
})  
export class AppModule { }

Next, generate a component:

$ ng generate component home

Next, generate an upload service:

$ ng generate service upload

Next, open the src/app/upload.service.ts file as follows:

import { HttpClient, HttpEvent, HttpErrorResponse, HttpEventType } from  '@angular/common/http';  
import { map } from  'rxjs/operators';

@Injectable({  
  providedIn: 'root'  
})  
export class UploadService { 
    SERVER_URL: string = "https://file.io/";  
    constructor(private httpClient: HttpClient) { }
    public upload(formData) {

      return this.httpClient.post(this.SERVER_URL, formData, {  
         reportProgress: true,  
         observe: 'events'  
      });  
   }
}

Next, open the src/app/home/home.component.ts file, and start by adding the following imports:

import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild, ElementRef  } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpEventType, HttpErrorResponse } from '@angular/common/http';
import { of } from 'rxjs';  
import { catchError, map } from 'rxjs/operators';  
import { UploadService } from  '../upload.service';

Next, define the fileUpload and files variables and inject UploadService as follows:

@Component({  
  selector: 'app-home',  
  templateUrl: './home.component.html',  
  styleUrls: ['./home.component.css']  
})  
export class HomeComponent implements OnInit {
    @ViewChild("fileUpload", {static: false}) fileUpload: ElementRef;files  = [];  
    constructor(private uploadService: UploadService) { }

Next, define the uploadFile() method:

uploadFile(file) {  
    const formData = new FormData();  
    formData.append('file', file.data);  
    file.inProgress = true;  
    this.uploadService.upload(formData).pipe(  
      map(event => {  
        switch (event.type) {  
          case HttpEventType.UploadProgress:  
            file.progress = Math.round(event.loaded * 100 / event.total);  
            break;  
          case HttpEventType.Response:  
            return event;  
        }  
      }),  
      catchError((error: HttpErrorResponse) => {  
        file.inProgress = false;  
        return of(`${file.data.name} upload failed.`);  
      })).subscribe((event: any) => {  
        if (typeof (event) === 'object') {  
          console.log(event.body);  
        }  
      });  
  }

Next, define the uploadFiles() method which can be used to upload multiple image files:

private uploadFiles() {  
    this.fileUpload.nativeElement.value = '';  
    this.files.forEach(file => {  
      this.uploadFile(file);  
    });  
}

Next, define the onClick() method:

onClick() {  
    const fileUpload = this.fileUpload.nativeElement;fileUpload.onchange = () => {  
    for (let index = 0; index < fileUpload.files.length; index++)  
    {  
     const file = fileUpload.files[index];  
     this.files.push({ data: file, inProgress: false, progress: 0});  
    }  
      this.uploadFiles();  
    };  
    fileUpload.click();  
}

Next, we need to create the HTML template of our image upload UI. Open the src/app/home/home.component.html file and add the following content:

   choose file  
   Upload  
   

Check out this tutorial and this post