How to upload assets to a github release from node.js - node.js

Question

I am trying to automatically post some assets on a Github release I programmatically create.
Here is my upload function:
function uploadFile(fileName, uploadUrl, callback){
var uploadEndPoint = url.parse(uploadUrl.substring(0,uploadUrl.indexOf('{')));
options.host = uploadEndPoint.hostname;
options.path = uploadEndPoint.pathname+'?name=' + fileName;
options.method = 'POST';
options.headers['content-type'] = 'application/zip';
var uploadRequest = https.request(options, callback);
uploadRequest.on('error', function(e) {
console.log('release.js - problem with uploadRequest request: ' + e.message);
});
var readStream = fs.ReadStream(path.resolve(__dirname,'builds',fileName));
readStream.pipe(uploadRequest);
readStream.on('close', function () {
req.end();
console.log('release.js - ' + fileName + ' sent to the server');
});
}
At the end of this I get a 404 not found
I tried auth from token and user/password
I checked the url
I though it might be because of SNI, but I don't know how to check that.
Any clue ? Thanks !

Answer 1

I found a solution to that problem by NOT using the low level node.js modules and using instead restler which is a library that handles SNI.
Here is how is used it:
rest = require('restler'),
path = require('path'),
fs = require('fs');
fs.stat(path.resolve(__dirname,'builds',fileName), function(err, stats){
rest.post(uploadEndPoint.href+'?name=' + fileName, {
multipart: true,
username: GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN,
password: '',
data: rest.file(path.resolve(__dirname,'builds',fileName), null, stats.size, null, 'application/zip')
}).on('complete', callback);
});
Hope that will help someone :)
EDIT on 27/02/2015: We recently switched from restler to request.
var
request = require('request'),
fs = require('fs');
var stats = fs.statSync(filePath);
var options = {
url: upload_url.replace('{?name}', ''),
port: 443,
auth: {
pass: 'x-oauth-basic',
user: GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN
},
json:true,
headers: {
'User-Agent': 'Release-Agent',
'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
'Content-Type': 'application/zip',
'Content-Length': stats.size
},
qs: {
name: assetName
}
};
// Better as a stream
fs.createReadStream(filePath).pipe(request.post(options, function(err, res){
// Do whatever you will like with the result
}));
The upload_uri can be retrieved through a get request on an existing release or in the response directly after the release creation.