feat: Ability to remove images that I know are being replaced

[wondergod007]

Describe the feature you'd like to request

If I am uploading an image to replace a previously uploaded image, I'd like to pass in the previous image URL so that this can be deleted since I know it will be replaced by the new image being uploaded. This would ensure my file store usage remains low.

Describe the solution you'd like to see

On uploading a new image, I'd like to set a property of the image URL to delete when this image is successfully uploaded.

Additional information

No response

👨‍👧‍👦 Contributing

• [ ] 🙋‍♂️ Yes, I'd be down to file a PR implementing this feature!

[markflorkowski]

We do have some plans to do things like this, for now though, you can pass that information to onUploadComplete() and call deleteFiles() there.

Something like this could work:

export const uploadRouter = {
  imageUploader: f({
    image: {
      maxFileSize: "4MB",
    },
  })
    .input(z.object({
      prevFile: z.string().optional(),
    }))
    .middleware(({ req, input }) => {
      // check for auth
      const user = auth(req);
      if (!user)  throw new Error("Unauthorized");

      // Return some metadata to be stored with the file
      return { userId: user.id, input };
    })
    .onUploadComplete(async ({ file, metadata: { prevFile }}) => {
      if(prevFile) await utapi.deleteFiles(prevFile);
    }),
} satisfies FileRouter;