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fix: handle multipart uploads without content-length - #16301

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Summary

  • accept multipart requests when a body stream is present even if Content-Length is missing
  • add base-case coverage for multipart eligibility and request parsing without Content-Length
  • wait for multipart parser completion before returning parsed files to avoid temp-file race/empty-file reads
  • stop forcing manual FormData Content-Length in the test REST client helper

What This Fixes

The Azure streaming upload MIME test intermittently failed because multipart FormData requests could be skipped or race file reads in certain no-Content-Length paths, producing empty-file upload behavior.

This test would fail:

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'url')
  test/storage-azure/streamingUploads.int.spec.ts:61:56
   59|       })
   60|     ).json()
   61|     const response = await restClient.GET(newMedia.doc.url.replace(/^\…
     |                                                        ^
   62|     expect(response.headers.get('content-type')).toEqual('image/png')
   63|   })

Validation

  • pnpm exec vitest run packages/payload/src/uploads/fetchAPI-multipart/isEligibleRequest.spec.ts packages/payload/src/utilities/addDataAndFileToRequest.spec.ts
  • pnpm exec vitest run --project int test/storage-azure/streamingUploads.int.spec.ts -t "preserves mime type when uploaded via rest endpoint" (5 consecutive passes)

@JarrodMFlesch JarrodMFlesch changed the title fix(payload): handle multipart uploads without content-length fix: handle multipart uploads without content-length Apr 16, 2026
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## Summary
- accept multipart requests when a body stream is present even if
`Content-Length` is missing
- add base-case coverage for multipart eligibility and request parsing
without `Content-Length`
- wait for multipart parser completion before returning parsed files to
avoid temp-file race/empty-file reads
- stop forcing manual FormData `Content-Length` in the test REST client
helper

## What This Fixes
The Azure streaming upload MIME test intermittently failed because
multipart FormData requests could be skipped or race file reads in
certain no-`Content-Length` paths, producing empty-file upload behavior.

This test would fail:
```ts
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'url')
 ❯ test/storage-azure/streamingUploads.int.spec.ts:61:56
   59|       })
   60|     ).json()
   61|     const response = await restClient.GET(newMedia.doc.url.replace(/^\…
     |                                                        ^
   62|     expect(response.headers.get('content-type')).toEqual('image/png')
   63|   })
```

## Validation
- `pnpm exec vitest run
packages/payload/src/uploads/fetchAPI-multipart/isEligibleRequest.spec.ts
packages/payload/src/utilities/addDataAndFileToRequest.spec.ts`
- `pnpm exec vitest run --project int
test/storage-azure/streamingUploads.int.spec.ts -t "preserves mime type
when uploaded via rest endpoint"` (5 consecutive passes)
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🚀 This is included in version v3.84.0

busbyk added a commit to NWACus/web that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2026
Bump payload and every @payloadcms/* package from 3.81.0 to 3.88.0 and
remove the pnpm patches, which upstream has made redundant:

- payload.patch (multipart bodies without Content-Length) shipped in
  3.84.0 via payloadcms/payload#16301. Its regression test is deleted,
  as the note in that test asked for once we passed 3.84.0.
- @payloadcms/storage-vercel-blob (allowOverwrite) is unconditional
  since 3.87.0 via payloadcms/payload#17385, so the plugin option goes.
- @payloadcms/plugin-mcp: `instructions` is native since 3.84.0
  (payloadcms/payload#15858). `authDepth` was never upstreamed, so the
  plugin's overrideAuth hook now re-fetches the API key's user at depth
  2 before the MCP tools run RBAC checks with it.

Regenerate types and the import map, document the overrideAuth hook and
the 3.88 change that binds MCP API keys to their creator, and relink
drift. No schema changes: migrate:create --skip-empty produced nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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