fix: #9055, non-standard API response from addThumbs route

Also removed old thumb upload router handler, and updated uploadPost handling in composer to match new response schema

public/openapi/read/post/upload.yaml

@@ -5,55 +5,21 @@ post:
   description: Provided by NodeBB core and used mainly by the composer, this route allows you to upload an image or file to a post.
   responses:
     "200":
-      description: ""
-      content:
-        application/json:
-          schema:
-            type: array
-            items:
-              type: object
-              properties:
-                name:
-                  type: string
-                url:
-                  type: string
-        text/plain:
-          schema:
-            type: array
-            items:
-              type: object
-              properties:
-                name:
-                  type: string
-                url:
-                  type: string
-    "403":
-      description: ""
-      content:
-        application/json:
-          schema:
-            type: string
-            example: Forbidden
-        text/plain:
-          schema:
-            type: string
-            example: Forbidden
-    "500":
       description: ""
       content:
         application/json:
           schema:
             type: object
             properties:
-              path:
+              status:
-                type: string
+                $ref: ../components/schemas/Status.yaml#/Status
-              error:
+              response:
-                type: string
+                type: object
-        text/plain:
+                properties:
-          schema:
+                  images:
-            type: object
+                    type: array
-            properties:
+                    items:
-              path:
+                      type: object
-                type: string
+                      properties:
-              error:
+                        url:
-                type: string
+                          type: string

src/controllers/uploads.js

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ const plugins = require('../plugins');
 const image = require('../image');
 const privileges = require('../privileges');
 
+const helpers = require('./helpers');
+
 const uploadsController = module.exports;
 
 uploadsController.upload = async function (req, res, filesIterator) {
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ uploadsController.upload = async function (req, res, filesIterator) {
 
 	// These checks added because of odd behaviour by request: https://github.com/request/request/issues/2445
 	if (!Array.isArray(files)) {
-		return res.status(500).json('invalid files');
+		return helpers.formatApiResponse(500, res, new Error('[[error:invalid-file]]'));
 	}
 	if (Array.isArray(files[0])) {
 		files = files[0];
@@ -30,10 +32,10 @@ uploadsController.upload = async function (req, res, filesIterator) {
 			/* eslint-disable no-await-in-loop */
 			images.push(await filesIterator(fileObj));
 		}
-		res.status(200).json(images);
+		helpers.formatApiResponse(200, res, { images });
 		return images;
 	} catch (err) {
-		res.status(500).json({ path: req.path, error: err.message });
+		return helpers.formatApiResponse(500, res, err);
 	} finally {
 		deleteTempFiles(files);
 	}

src/controllers/write/topics.js

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Topics.addThumb = async (req, res, next) => {
 		return;
 	}
 
-	const files = await uploadsController.uploadThumb(req, res, next);	// response is handled here, fix this?
+	const files = await uploadsController.uploadThumb(req, res, next);	// response is handled here
 
 	// Add uploaded files to topic zset
 	if (files && files.length) {

src/routes/api.js

@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ module.exports = function (app, middleware, controllers) {
 	var multipartMiddleware = multipart();
 	var middlewares = [middleware.maintenanceMode, multipartMiddleware, middleware.validateFiles, middleware.applyCSRF];
 	router.post('/post/upload', middlewares, uploadsController.uploadPost);
-	router.post('/topic/thumb/upload', middlewares, uploadsController.uploadThumb);
 
 	router.post('/user/:userslug/uploadpicture', middlewares.concat([middleware.exposeUid, middleware.authenticate, middleware.canViewUsers, middleware.checkAccountPermissions]), controllers.accounts.edit.uploadPicture);
 };