How Documenso Stores Uploaded Files In Its Database

In this article, we analyse how Documenso stores an uploaded file into its database by reviewing its source code. Where is this code that does this? You will find the below code snippet in a file named upload/put-file.ts.


const putFileInDatabase = async (file: File) => {
  const contents = await file.arrayBuffer();
  const binaryData = new Uint8Array(contents);
  const asciiData = base64.encode(binaryData);
  return {
    type: DocumentDataType.BYTES_64,
    data: asciiData,
  };
};

    
    

    
    




  
  
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So what exactly is happening here? contents is assigned a value...