I am trying to write a Jersey client app which can post multi part form data to a Restful Jersey service. I need to post a CSV file with the data and a JSON with meta-data. I am using Jersey client 1.18.3. Here is my code (some names have been changed for company confidentiality )...
Client client = Client.create();
WebResource webResource = client.resource("http://localhost:8080/mariam/service/playWithDad");
FileDataBodyPart filePart = new FileDataBodyPart("file",
new File("C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/input/games.csv"));
String playWithDadMetaJson
= "{\n"
+ " \"sandboxIndicator\": true,\n"
+ " \"skipBadLines\": false,\n"
+ " \"fileSeparator\": \"COMMA\",\n"
+ " \"blockSize\": false,\n"
+ " \"gameUUID\": \"43a004c9-2130-4e75-8fd4-e5fccae31840\",\n"
+ " \"useFriends\": \"false\"\n"
+ "}\n"
+ "";
MultiPart multipartEntity = new FormDataMultiPart()
.field("meta", playWithDadMetaJson, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE)
.bodyPart(filePart);
ClientResponse response = webResource.type(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA_TYPE).post(multipartEntity);
Right now I am getting a compile error at the last line saying it cannot convert from void to ClientResponse.
I got some guidance on the RestFul service itself previously from this post..
Java Rest Jersey : Posting multiple types of data (File and JSON)
Follow jersey documentation, they provide sample client code. Here is the snippet to post a multipart request:
final MultiPart multiPartEntity = new MultiPart()
.bodyPart(new BodyPart().entity("hello"))
.bodyPart(new BodyPart(new JaxbBean("xml"), MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_TYPE))
.bodyPart(new BodyPart(new JaxbBean("json"), MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE));
final WebTarget target = // Create WebTarget.
final Response response = target
.request()
.post(Entity.entity(multiPartEntity, multiPartEntity.getMediaType()));