Use multipart in lifecycle strapi v4?

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I am trying to make a request with some data and on top of that, so I decided to make my request multipart and want to send a file along that I will be uploading and then connecting to the images field I guess, how can I do that?

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I am using the lifecycle to do some validating

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And to create something after clicking a button

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If you are making request, with file upload lifecycle is not going to help you much

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lifecycle is a database event fired on entity creation

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Ok, lifecycle doesn’t count here

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I am having another issue

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it won’t have the file in there

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When I try to use multipart for something that has relations

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Like an id, it should probably have connect in it, not sure how to structure the code that way

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I am required to install some sort of puglin or configure something to have the files uploaded?

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const formData = new FormData();

const data = {
    …stuff,
    relation: { id: relationId}
}

formData.append('body', JSON.stringify({ data })
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body? Isn’t it data?

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I think body should have attribute data with all the stuff inside

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const data = {};
const formData = new FormData();

form.elements
  .forEach(({ name, type, value, files, ...element }) => {
    if (!['submit', 'file'].includes(type)) {
      data[name] = value;
    } else if (type === 'file') {
      files.forEach((file) => {
        formData.append(`files.${name}`, file, file.name);
      });
    }
  });

formData.append('data', JSON.stringify(data));
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I am confused

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formData.append(‘body’

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Why do this?