I am working on my first project as a junior developer, but i also got the task of creating the backend API. This is therefore my first time touching any backend so i almost dont know any c# or .NET.
Frontend: Nextjs, typescript
Backend: .NET 6, c#
The problem:
The users need to be able to upload an image to an artist object. As of now i am only using a string that represents the path where the image is stored in the frontend.
I will figure out how i will recieve the image in the frontend, and i will create an endpoint in the API where i can PUT the image.
The question im trying to ask is how do i do the recieving and storing of the image in the .NET?
Artist entity:
namespace BookingAPI.Entities
{
public class Artist
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; } = null!;
public string Description { get; set; }
public string? Image { get; set; }
}
}
CreateArtist in Controller
// POST /events/{eventId}/program/artists
// Create new artist in Program -> Artists
[HttpPost]
[Route("/events/{eventId}/program/artists")]
public async Task<ActionResult<EventArtistDto>> CreateEventArtistAsync(string eventId, CreateEventArtistDto createEventArtistDto)
{
Artist artist = new()
{
Id = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
Name = createEventArtistDto.Name,
Description = createEventArtistDto.Description,
Image = createEventArtistDto.Image,
};
await repository.CreateEventArtistAsync(eventId, artist);
return artist.AsDto(); // add return body?
}
CreateArtost in inMemRepository
public async Task CreateEventArtistAsync(string eventId, Artist artist)
{
var eventIndex = events.FindIndex(existingEvent => existingEvent.Id == eventId);
var existingEvent = events[eventIndex];
var artists = existingEvent.EventProgram.Artists;
artists.Add(artist);
await Task.CompletedTask;
}
Please let me know if i should upload more of the code.
Im really not sure even how to start this code, i am of course googling this at the same time, but though i would make my own question as well so that maybe i could learn this the proper way.
1
First you create endPoint for Upload Image. That time perfectly choice is use IFormFile. Code like this
[HttpPost]
[Route("api/image/upload")]
public async Task<IActionResult> UploadImage([FromForm] IFormFile file)
{
}
Then you get image like byteArray format. For this you should use Stream
var byteArrayImage;
using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
{
await file.CopyToAsync(stream);
byteArrayimage = stream.ToArray();
}
Here we go. Now yo can get Image like ByteArray format. And Finally you can insert to Database or another source.
That’s perfect practice from another way.