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Task 2 Command Line Interface

This is a command line utility to merge two pdfs together

Installation

  1. From the root of this repository, run cd task2/cmd_line;
  2. npm install
  3. npm link

Usage

$ pdf-merger <pdf1> <pdf2> <0 or more pdfs>

This will create a pdf called merged.pdf in your current working directory.

Task 2 Web API route

Description

Send a POST request to the endpoint https://must-pdf-merger.netlify.app/.netlify/functions/server deployed as a Netlify serverless function.

This endpoint accepts a POST request with multipart/form-data content and returns a Buffer response.

Endpoint

  • Method: POST
  • URL: https://must-pdf-merger.netlify.app/.netlify/functions/server
  • Content Type: multipart/form-data

Request Body

The request body should contain a file uploaded as file.

Response

The response will be a Buffer containing the content of the uploaded file.

Example Usage

Request

POST https://must-pdf-merger.netlify.app/.netlify/functions/server HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW

----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="example.pdf"
Content-Type: application/pdf

This is the content of the file.
----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

<Buffer 25 50 44 46 ...> <!-- PDF binary data -->