WFDASH-WEBAPP/n8n_workfows/SNIPPET-plan-upload-attachments-early-v2.js

// Plan: Upload Attachments Early v2 — does PB admin auth INLINE so binary survives.
// (v1 relied on a pre-computed $json.pb_token from a separate PocketBase
// Admin Auth HTTP node — but that node strips binary, so v1's uploads had
// no bytes to send. v2 inlines the auth via this.helpers.httpRequest.)
//
// On each invocation:
//   1. Read PB admin creds from PocketBase Connection (the Set node upstream)
//   2. POST to /api/collections/_superusers/auth-with-password → get token
//   3. Walk the binary on the incoming item(s), emit one item per attachment
//      with the freshly-minted token + all the upload prep data
//   4. Items carry the binary so the next HTTP node can multipart-upload it
//
// On no-attachments emails, emits one placeholder item with no binary.

const inputs = $input.all();
if (inputs.length === 0) {
  return [{ json: { _attachment_count: 0 }, binary: {} }];
}

// 1. Read PB admin creds from PocketBase Connection (the Set node upstream).
//    We use $('Node Name').item.json so we don't depend on what $json carries
//    (the HTTP node that previously did the auth replaced $json with its
//    own response shape).
let ctx = {};
try {
  ctx = $('PocketBase Connection').item.json || {};
} catch (e) {
  ctx = inputs[0].json || {};
}
const pbUrl = String(ctx.pb_url || '');
const pbEmail = String(ctx.pb_admin_email || '');
const pbPassword = String(ctx.pb_admin_password || '');
const messageId = String(ctx.message_id || '');
const effectiveMessageId = String(ctx._effective_message_id || messageId);

if (!pbUrl || !pbEmail || !pbPassword) {
  throw new Error('PB credentials missing from PocketBase Connection: ' + JSON.stringify({
    hasUrl: !!pbUrl, hasEmail: !!pbEmail, hasPass: !!pbPassword
  }));
}

// 2. POST to PB to mint an admin token. This happens INSIDE the Code node,
//    so binary on the input items is preserved (unlike going through an HTTP
//    Request node, which strips binary).
let pbToken = '';
let pbAdminId = '';
try {
  const authResp = await this.helpers.httpRequest({
    method: 'POST',
    url: pbUrl + '/api/collections/_superusers/auth-with-password',
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json' },
    body: { identity: pbEmail, password: pbPassword },
    json: true,
    timeout: 15000,
  });
  pbToken = String(authResp.token || '');
  pbAdminId = String((authResp.admin && authResp.admin.id) || '');
  if (!pbToken) {
    throw new Error('PB auth returned no token: ' + JSON.stringify(authResp));
  }
} catch (authErr) {
  throw new Error('PB admin auth failed: ' + (authErr.message || authErr));
}

// 3. Walk binary on every input item and emit one upload-prep item per
//    attachment. The binary is re-anchored under a stable `attachment`
//    property so the next HTTP node can reference it predictably.
const out = [];
let attachmentIndex = 0;
for (const input of inputs) {
  const bin = input.binary || {};
  for (const key of Object.keys(bin)) {
    const b = bin[key];
    if (!b) continue;
    const filename = String(b.fileName || 'attachment');
    const contentType = String(b.mimeType || 'application/octet-stream');
    out.push({
      json: {
        pb_url: pbUrl,
        pb_token: pbToken,
        pb_admin_id: pbAdminId,
        email_message_id: effectiveMessageId,
        filename: filename,
        content_type: contentType,
        size_bytes: Number(b.fileSize || 0),
        binary_key: key,
        _upload_index: attachmentIndex,
      },
      binary: { attachment: b },
    });
    attachmentIndex++;
  }
}

if (out.length === 0) {
  // No attachments — emit a placeholder item with no binary so the chain
  // continues. The downstream HTTP POST will see no binary and PB will
  // reject (caught by onError: continueRegularOutput on the HTTP node).
  out.push({
    json: {
      pb_url: pbUrl,
      pb_token: pbToken,
      pb_admin_id: pbAdminId,
      email_message_id: effectiveMessageId,
      filename: '',
      content_type: '',
      size_bytes: 0,
      binary_key: '__none__',
      _upload_index: 0,
      _no_attachments: true,
    },
    binary: {},
  });
}

return out;