parse-community / parse-community/parse-server

Support passing additional params with file save/upload POST request and expose those in beforeSaveFile/afterSaveFile

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Description

New Feature / Enhancement Checklist
Current Limitation

No official support.

Feature / Enhancement Description

This is the server-side feature request to support the relevant functionality of the client SDK feature requests:
https://github.com/parse-community/Parse-SDK-Android/issues/1201
https://github.com/parse-community/Parse-SDK-iOS-OSX/issues/1766

Example Use Case

See linked client sdk bugs

Alternatives / Workarounds

Custom schemes to pass additional params via headers, or mimicking the JS SDK behavior and recoding the file into a json format with additional metadata/tags. See linked client sdk bugs for details

3rd Party References

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Read the linked Android and iOS SDK issues first to understand the requested parameter behavior. Then trace parse-server's file upload POST handling and the beforeSaveFile/afterSaveFile hooks; done means additional parameters are accepted and exposed consistently in both hooks.

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Assessment

Tech stack
express, javascript, node.js
Domain
api, backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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