part.body.pipe is not a function

Environment details

OS: Linux
Node.js version: 12.9.0
npm version: 6.11.2
googleapis version: 43.0.0

Steps to reproduce

I have the following piece of code:

    const drive = google.drive({
        version: 'v3',
        auth: 'MYAPIKEYHERE'
    });
    const folderId = 'MYFOLDERIDHERE';
    const fileMetadata = {
        name: filename,
        parents: [ folderId ]
    };
    const media = {
        body: file
    };

    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        drive.files.create({
            // @ts-ignore
            resource: fileMetadata,
            media: media,
            fields: 'id'
            // @ts-ignore
        }, (err, result) => {
            if (null !== err) {
                reject(err);
            } else {
                resolve(result.id);
            }
        });
    });

filename is a string and file a Buffer… I tried many combinations from StackOverflow, Github, and Google Docs but all of them gave me the following error:

TypeError: part.body.pipe is not a function
    at createAPIRequestAsync (/home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/node_modules/googleapis-common/build/src/apirequest.js:182:31)
    at Object.createAPIRequest (/home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/node_modules/googleapis-common/build/src/apirequest.js:41:9)
    at Resource$Files.create (/home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/node_modules/googleapis/build/src/apis/drive/v3.js:660:37)
    at /home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/dist/google/drive.js:39:21
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/dist/google/drive.js:38:12)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at /home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/dist/google/drive.js:7:71
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at __awaiter (/home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/dist/google/drive.js:3:12)
    at Object.exports.addToGDrive (/home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/dist/google/drive.js:13:43)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/dist/controllers/invoice.js:21:44)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at /home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/dist/controllers/invoice.js:7:71
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at __awaiter (/home/farm/Documents/InventorySystemAPI/dist/controllers/invoice.js:3:12)

The funny part is that following the Google Docs tutorial when I tried to create a ‘credntials.json’ file, it was given to me an API key.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

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Alfred-Onuadacommented, Apr 23, 2022

Hi, Fazendaaa seems the body key only accepts a readable stream so.

const { Readable } = require('stream') … body: Readable.from(file)

Hope this helps someone

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bcoecommented, Oct 28, 2019

@Fazendaaa @rashikbhasin rather than using a Buffer, could you try passing:

body: fs.createReadStream('./path/to/file')

☝️ I believe this is the API surface that it expects currently (I understand wanting to pass a buffer, this might be a feature request or gap in documentation).