Sending file to REST Service with POST Request

Question

I'm developing a rest service using RESTEasy, the aim of the service is to get a text file from the POST request and parse it. I have done it in 2 ways:

@Path("/HTTPRequestWay")
@POST
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public String uploadFile2(
        @HeaderParam("sourceSystem")String sourceSystem,
        @HeaderParam("payloadType")String payloadType,
        @Context HttpServletRequest request){

    String payloadHTTP = "";
    try {
        payloadHTTP = getBody(request);
    }catch (IOException e){
        e.printStackTrace();
        payloadHTTP = "error";
    }

    return payloadHTTP;
}

@Path("/InputStreamWay")
@POST
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
public String uploadFile2(
        @HeaderParam("sourceSystem")String sourceSystem,
        @HeaderParam("payloadType")String payloadType,
        InputStream payload){

    String payloadInputStream = "none";
    try {
        payloadInputStream = IOUtils.toString(payload, "UTF-8");
    }catch (IOException e){
        e.printStackTrace();
        payloadInputStream = "error";
    }
    finally{
        IOUtils.closeQuietly(payload);
    }

    return payloadInputStream ;
}

public static String getBody(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {

    String body = null;
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    BufferedReader bufferedReader = null;

    try {
        InputStream inputStream = request.getInputStream();
        if (inputStream != null) {
            bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
            char[] charBuffer = new char[128];
            int bytesRead = -1;
            while ((bytesRead = bufferedReader.read(charBuffer)) > 0) {
                stringBuilder.append(charBuffer, 0, bytesRead);
            }
        } else {
            stringBuilder.append("");
        }
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        throw ex;
    } finally {
        if (bufferedReader != null) {
            try {
                bufferedReader.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                throw ex;
            }
        }
    }

    body = stringBuilder.toString();
    return body;
}

i was trying to parse the file either with the HttpServletRequest (getting the body) or putting a parameter in the method (InputStream) .My doubt is about this second case why my method can convert the file i'm sending in the parameter (InputStream payload)? It looks like magic to me why does it works the second way and which is the better? Thanks

Check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24890675/file-upload-using-rest-api-in-java — Sheetal Mohan Sharma, May 26 '16 at 15:01

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 26 '16 at 14:47

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It's not magic, it simply injects the InputStream from the HttpServletRequest. Take a loot at the docs.

Resteasy can automatically marshal and unmarshal a few different message bodies.

One of them is java.io.InputStream.

answered May 26 '16 at 14:47

meskobalazs

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Thanks I got the point. I have made some tries sending text files and also without sending send files but including in the body the contained data of the file as raw and in both cases i receive it correctly so my question is how can i know in my REST Service if the data is the file has been sent or if is just a raw type in the request? – DarkAngeL May 26 '16 at 15:18
You could use the `@Consumes` annotation, and only process multipart data. – meskobalazs May 26 '16 at 20:48

Sending file to REST Service with POST Request

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