# Uploading and Processing Files in Back end-Code

**URL:** <https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/uploading-and-processing-files-in-back-end-code/6262>\
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**Tags:** code, question\
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/uploading-and-processing-files-in-back-end-code/6262 "2021-01-08T02:37:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![gmessina26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@gmessina26](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/gmessina26)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/uploading-and-processing-files-in-back-end-code/6262/1 "2021-01-08T02:37:55Z")

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I have been all over this forum looking for an answer to what seems like a missing feature (one that makes a lot of ideas basically unusable on wix). Putting it simply here is my problem…

1. I need a way to either upload a file to the back end as binary (or some encoding), or upload to a collection and then pull into the back end as binary (this is convenient solution).

2. I need to send it via API as a JSON. (not really the issue, just giving some context)

I have read some older threads that say **request-response** is the way to create a buffer object, but its own git says its deprecated. **Node.js Buffer** is apparently not supported by wix (another old thread).

**what is the officially backed functions I should be using to process this URI?**

A small description of the caveats a resource and I should be able to handle this.

Thank you for your time.