org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.multipart
Class MultipartRequestEntity

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.multipart.MultipartRequestEntity

All Implemented Interfaces:

RequestEntity

public class MultipartRequestEntity
extends Object
implements RequestEntity

Implements a request entity suitable for an HTTP multipart POST method.

The HTTP multipart POST method is defined in section 3.3 of RFC1867:

The media-type multipart/form-data follows the rules of all multipart MIME data streams as outlined in RFC 1521. The multipart/form-data contains a series of parts. Each part is expected to contain a content-disposition header where the value is "form-data" and a name attribute specifies the field name within the form, e.g., 'content-disposition: form-data; name="xxxxx"', where xxxxx is the field name corresponding to that field. Field names originally in non-ASCII character sets may be encoded using the method outlined in RFC 1522.

This entity is designed to be used in conjunction with the post method to provide multipart posts. Example usage:

  File f = new File("/path/fileToUpload.txt");
  PostMethod filePost = new PostMethod("http://host/some_path");
  Part[] parts = {
      new StringPart("param_name", "value"),
      new FilePart(f.getName(), f)
  };
  filePost.setRequestEntity(
      new MultipartRequestEntity(parts, filePost.getParams())
      );
  HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
  int status = client.executeMethod(filePost);
 

Since:

3.0

Field Summary

protected Part[]

parts The MIME parts as set by the constructor

Constructor Summary

MultipartRequestEntity(Part[] parts, HttpMethodParams params)
Creates a new multipart entity containing the given parts.

Method Summary

long	getContentLength() Gets the request entity's length.
String	getContentType() Gets the entity's content type.
protected byte[]	getMultipartBoundary() Returns the MIME boundary string that is used to demarcate boundaries of this part.
boolean	isRepeatable() Returns true if all parts are repeatable, false otherwise.
void	writeRequest(OutputStream out) Writes the request entity to the given stream.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

parts

protected Part[] parts

The MIME parts as set by the constructor

Constructor Detail

MultipartRequestEntity

public MultipartRequestEntity(Part[] parts,
                              HttpMethodParams params)

Creates a new multipart entity containing the given parts.

Parameters:

parts - The parts to include.

params - The params of the HttpMethod using this entity.

Method Detail

getMultipartBoundary

protected byte[] getMultipartBoundary()

Returns the MIME boundary string that is used to demarcate boundaries of this part. The first call to this method will implicitly create a new boundary string. To create a boundary string first the HttpMethodParams.MULTIPART_BOUNDARY parameter is considered. Otherwise a random one is generated.

Returns:

The boundary string of this entity in ASCII encoding.

isRepeatable

public boolean isRepeatable()

Returns true if all parts are repeatable, false otherwise.

Specified by:

isRepeatable in interface RequestEntity

Returns:

true if the entity can be written to OutputStream more than once, false otherwise.

See Also:

RequestEntity.isRepeatable()

writeRequest

public void writeRequest(OutputStream out)
                  throws IOException

Description copied from interface: RequestEntity

Writes the request entity to the given stream.

Specified by:

writeRequest in interface RequestEntity

Throws:

IOException

getContentLength

public long getContentLength()

Description copied from interface: RequestEntity

Gets the request entity's length. This method should return a non-negative value if the content length is known or a negative value if it is not. In the latter case the EntityEnclosingMethod will use chunk encoding to transmit the request entity.

Specified by:

getContentLength in interface RequestEntity

Returns:

a non-negative value when content length is known or a negative value when content length is not known

getContentType

public String getContentType()

Description copied from interface: RequestEntity

Gets the entity's content type. This content type will be used as the value for the "Content-Type" header.

Specified by:

getContentType in interface RequestEntity

Returns:

the entity's content type

See Also:

HttpMethod.setRequestHeader(String, String)