Uploading data with file with Guzzle - Laravel - php

Question

I am uploading a file to my API built on laravel. In my code below, the data is sent to the API. But how can i get the file that was uploaded to the API ?
Controller
$file = $request->file('imported-file');
$name = $file->getClientOriginalName();
$path ='/Users/desktop/Folder/laravelapp/public/Voice/';
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$fileinfo = array(
'message' => 'Testing content',
'recipient' => "102425",
);
$res = $client->request('POST', $url, [
'multipart' => [
[
'name' => 'FileContents',
'contents' => file_get_contents($path . $name),
'filename' => $name
],
[
'name' => 'FileInfo',
'contents' => json_encode($fileinfo)
]
],
]);
API Controller
if (!empty('FileInfo')) {
return response()->json([
'status' => 'error',
'file_content' => $request->file('FileContents'),
'media'=>$request->hasFile('FileContents'),
]);
}
This is the response, i get "file":null,"file_content":{},"media":true
Why is the file content empty when media is showing true meaning there is a file ?

Answer 1

There can be multiple reasons :
Check your content type. Sometimes we forget to specify multipart/form-data and the request is sent with generic application/x-form-urlencoded etc.
Secondly if you are using jQuery, then set :
contentType: false,
processData: false,
cache: false
This will help your form request no getting converted to string payload and not forcing ajax to set content type. try using FormData.
Update : Found similar answer in this post has detailed answer for this.