Aerogear Controller Upload Multipart Form (a file)

[iampowers]

I'm attempting to upload a image through a form using the aerogear controller. The following is what I've done (and been successful at):

1. I created a new MediaType

{code}public static final MediaType MULTI_PART_FORM = new MediaType("multipart/form-data", JspViewResponder.class);{code}

2. I then created a custom consumer in which I implemented the <T> T unmarshall(HttpServletRequest request, Class<T> type) method to use Apache's ServletFileUpload class. It returns a List of FileItems.

3. From there, I parsed through the fields to map it to a bean (a part of my data model).

4. My jsp uses a simple form tag with an encoding type of 'multipart/form-data' with an input of type 'file'.

I feel like there should be an easier way to do this...does anyone have a better solution?

Thanks,

Nick

[beve]

Hi!

I feel like there should be an easier way to do this...does anyone have a better solution?

I looks like you've got it right there, and I'm pretty sure you are the first one to try this out  

We would definitely like to make things as simple as possible though. Are you able to share your solution as looking at the code might gives some ideas?

Would you be interested in contributing the media type perhaps?

cheers,

/Dan

[iampowers]

I am willing to share my solution. I also don't mind contributing to the media type (although, I'm not certain what that entails).

Shall I just post it here or send it some other way?

[beve]

The easiest way would be to create a repository on GitHub and add a link to that respository in this thread. 

To contribute you can clone aerogear-controller, and then create a pull request for adding the media type. Don't worry if you are not familiar with git or GitHub, I'd be happy to take you through the steps and assist.

Below are a few links to some documention that you might find useful.

Contributing to AeroGear

AeroGear GitHub workflow

Feel free to email me directly if you have any questions (email info can be found on my profile)

thanks,

/Dan