Is there a better way to create a Spring DTO to get a file or a folder containing files than encoding in base64 string?

Asked Aug 08 '17 at 14:27

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At the moment, the file's content is transferred in a JSON like this :

{ 
  "name" : "filename.txt",
  "path" : "src/info/filename.txt",
  "base64content" : "dGhpcyBpcyBhIGZpbGUgd2l0aCBjb250ZW50"
}

I just want to know how you would structure the JSON (and possibly the DTO class object) ?

asked Aug 08 '17 at 14:27

N. Chicoine

Do you really need both the path and the data? – MartinByers Aug 08 '17 at 14:31
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1443158/binary-data-in-json-string-something-better-than-base64 – StanislavL Aug 08 '17 at 14:32
Yes I do need both @MartinByers – N. Chicoine Aug 08 '17 at 14:45
As for your answer @StanislavL, I understand that it says that base64 is pretty standard for binary data transfer and I guess in my situation, where file transfer won't be too frequent, it's okay. – N. Chicoine Aug 08 '17 at 14:48
Base64 is fine but there is alternative described there - a way to pass binary data as multipart/form-data – StanislavL Aug 08 '17 at 14:50
You can write bytes in outputstream. It's fairly fast and consumes a few memory. – nllsdfx Aug 08 '17 at 15:14

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