Upload multiples files to an entry after its creation (and how to add a caption ?)

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Hey @cajazzer thanks for your response.

That’s one of the things I tried. That def works if you are using the /upload API but I am trying to upload against entry creation API /api/<entry>.

In my <entry> I have 2 media types:

"images": {
  "allowedTypes": [
    "images"
  ],
  "type": "media",
  "multiple": true
},
"documents": {
  "allowedTypes": [
    "files"
  ],
  "type": "media",
  "multiple": true
}

So when I upload from the browser I do:

formData.append('data', JSON.stringify({
 // fields
}))

data.images.forEach((f) => {
  formData.append(`files.images`, f, f.name)
})

data.documents.forEach((f) => {
  formData.append(`files.documents`, f, f.name)
})

That’s why I thought setting fileInfo.image may work. But yes setting that or just fileInfo doesn’t seem to work.

These are what I’ve tried so far:

// 1
formData.append(`fileInfo.images`, JSON.stringify([{ caption: 'test' }]))

// 2
formData.append(`fileInfo`, JSON.stringify([{ caption: 'test' }]))

// 3 (your suggestion)
formData.append('data', JSON.stringify({
  // fields
  fileInfo: [
    { caption: 'test' }
  ]
})

// 4
formData.append('data', JSON.stringify({
  // fields
  fileInfo: {
    images: [
      { caption: 'test' }
    ]
  }
})

// 5 - This errors -  error: Invalid id, expected a string or integer, got [object Object]
formData.append('data', JSON.stringify({
  // fields
  images: [
    { caption: 'test' }
  ]
}))

I’ll have another dig into the upload plugin but I think strapi may be handling these /api/entry things differently and then passing down to upload plugin