How to properly parse values from this POST body String (returned from spark.RequestWrapper.getBody())

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Sorry if this is a duplicate. I was looking for spark.RequestWrapper.getBody() on here and couldnt find what I was looking for. Basically, when I make a post request with 3 body values (name="Something, id="Something", someNumber=1) then call getBody(), I receive the following.

------WebKitFormBoundaryAFbSXBcWNVOAmQFo
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"

"Something"
------WebKitFormBoundaryAFbSXBcWNVOAmQFo
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="id"

"Something"
------WebKitFormBoundaryAFbSXBcWNVOAmQFo
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="someNumber"

1
------WebKitFormBoundaryAFbSXBcWNVOAmQFo--

I believe this actually comes from IOUtils.toByteArray(servletRequest.getInputStream()), and is cast to a string. Considering it's from servletRequest, I figured this is a pretty common problem, but haven't found a library or solution yet.

Thanks in advance for your help!

P.S. - If this is a duplicate, my apologies. Feel free to flag it and I'll be on my merry way!

Edit - Not Apache Spark. This one: http://sparkjava.com/

Are you trying to handle multi-part request? If so, this is probably what you are looking for: http://stackoverflow.com/q/29373468/396092 — vandershraaf, Dec 08 '15 at 19:55

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '15 at 00:18

When you declare a route, you declare a parameter to access the request. Use this in order to get the request body, like request.body() or request.bodyAsBytes(), as it's done in the documentation. If you're still unable to get a better format, then you'll have to format it yourself in your client application. The best content-type to use for this would be application-json.

How to properly parse values from this POST body String (returned from spark.RequestWrapper.getBody())

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