Do you know if is possible to return a GridFS file to a string instead of a file?
I mean like requesting it with a post request and returning the content of the file in the response.

Getting this warning for mongoose version 5.12.8 and above when using gridfile.

Thanks (again) for the package.

Really easy to use, loving it.

I have managed to populate the metadata field when uploading (I've changed some variable names, sorry about any funky naming):

const upload = new Upload({
  filename: req.file.originalname,
  metadata: {
    tmpName: req.file.filename,
    version: 1
  },
});
uploaded = await upload.upload(fileStream);

This upload gets associated to a parent document that contains some more advanced metadata specific to how the file is used.

I would now like to add the id of the parent doc to the upload metadata. Something like this:

Parent.create(req.body)
    .then(async (data) => {
      uploaded.metadata.template_id = data._id;

      // also tried await
      uploaded.save().then(updated => {
        return res.status(201).json(data);
      })
    })
    .catch((err) => {...});

Everything I've tried so far looks like it should work, I.e returning the data has the expected values in the metadata. but it doesn't actually make it to the database.

Have you come across this issue before and if so how did you tackle it?

Thanks for this plugin, it seemed to be exactly what I was looking for however trying to install it on a fresh project using mongoose 6.1.5 results in the error

Found: [email protected]
node_modules/mongoose
  mongoose@"^6.1.5" from the root project 

Could not resolve dependency:
peer mongoose@"^5.0.0" from [email protected]
node_modules/gridfile
  gridfile@"*" from the root project
Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps
to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.