Receiving Multipart Response on client side (ClosableHttpResponse)
I have a java controller which have to send me some text data and different byte arrays. So I am building n multipart request and writing it to stream from HttpServletResponse.
Now my problem is how to parse the response at client side and extract the multiple parts.
SERVER CODE SNIPPET:-
MultipartEntityBuilder builder = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();
// Prepare payload
builder.addBinaryBody("document1", file);
builder.addBinaryBody("document2", file2);
builder.addPart("stringData", new StringBody(jsonData, ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN));
// Set to request body
HttpEntity entity = builder.build();
postRequest.setEntity(entity);
CLIENT CODE SNIPPET:-
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(finalUrl);
StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(json);
httpPost.setEntity(entity);
httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE);
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(response.getEntity().getContent());
I checked CloseableHttpResponse and HttpEntity but none of them is providing method to parse multipart request.
EDIT 1: This is my sample response I am receiving at client side stream:-
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="numeric"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
01010110
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="stringmessage"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding:8bit
testmessage
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="binarydata"; filename="file1"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
HI, THIS IS MY BINARY DATA
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="ending"
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
ending
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Solution 1:
I have finally got a workaround for it.
I will be using javax mail MimeMultipart.
Below is a code snipped for the solution:-
ByteArrayDataSource datasource = new ByteArrayDataSource(in, "multipart/form-data");
MimeMultipart multipart = new MimeMultipart(datasource);
int count = multipart.getCount();
log.debug("count " + count);
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
BodyPart bodyPart = multipart.getBodyPart(i);
if (bodyPart.isMimeType("text/plain")) {
log.info("text/plain " + bodyPart.getContentType());
processTextData(bodyPart.getContent());
} else if (bodyPart.isMimeType("application/octet-stream")) {
log.info("application/octet-stream " + bodyPart.getContentType());
processBinaryData(bodyPart.getInputStream()));
} else {
log.warn("default " + bodyPart.getContentType());
}
}
Please let me know if anybody else have any standard solution.