testing upload file api with postman

Question

I created a restful api to upload a file to an external web service, but I need to send some kind of data in this request to, here is an example of the request :

"file" : <MultiPartFile>,
"data" : {...}

I mapped this request to this class :

@Data
class UploadFileRequest{
   private MultiPartFile file;
   private Data data;
}

here is the api :

@PostMapping
String uploadFile(@RequestBody UploadFileRequest input){
     return service.uploadFile(input.getFile(), input.getData());
}

I want to know how to send this kind of request.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4083702/posting-a-file-and-associated-data-to-a-restful-webservice-preferably-as-json — PeterMmm, Aug 12 '22 at 09:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '22 at 11:15

To test file upload in postman you just need to set the body to form-data and use type file to upload a file. I've tested this with Postman Echo and published an example that you can copy to your collection.

If you navigate to my example you're simply going to find this:

testing upload file api with postman

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