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Testing @MultipartForm RestEasy Rest Based Web Service

Hello,

Does anyone know how to test the below @MultipartForm RestEasy Webservice? I'm unsure of how to setup the request to the below service, any ideas?

  @POST
    	@Path("/upload")
    	@Consumes("multipart/form-data")
    	public Response create(@MultipartForm FileUploadForm form) 
    	{
    	    System.out.println("test");
    		return null;
    	}


    public class FileUploadForm {
        private byte[] filedata;
    
        public FileUploadForm() {}
    
        public byte[] getFileData() {
            return filedata;
        }
    
        @FormParam("filedata")
        @PartType("application/octet-stream")
        public void setFileData(final byte[] filedata) {
            this.filedata = filedata;
        }
    }

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for_yan

Perhaps this could help:
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/rest.html

for_yan

And maybe this one also:
http://developer.yahoo.com/java/howto-reqRestJava.html#post

cgray1223

ASKER

thanks for the suggestion yan, but unfortunately that didn't help...

Mick Barry

you can httpclient or httpunit to throw requests at it
or try rest-client for a higher level test client
http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/

what exactly do you want to test?

cgray1223

ASKER

I'm unsure how to construct the request for the service. I want to test it, so I can tell the consumer of the service how to setup the call. Any ideas? I tried HttpClient but I don't see how to set the FileIploadForm byte[] data. It would be ideal if the consumer doesn't have to know about the FileUploadForm object and just passess the byte array in the request. I think that is the idea of the @MultipartForm. Thanks for the help!

cgray1223

ASKER

I want to test the service a I posted above, passing in a byte array in the request. I don't think its possible with the google rest client as that only represents string data.

Mick Barry

you can't test the method directly using http, the request and what gets pssed to the method are different things. If you want to test it directly then you would use a unit test instead of a http test

cgray1223

ASKER

If I can't test it how can it be consumed by a mobile app?

Mick Barry

sorry I don't understand. How can what be consumed?

cgray1223

ASKER

The below post REST web service...

@POST
      @Path("/upload")
      @Consumes("multipart/form-data")
      public Response create(@MultipartForm FileUploadForm form)
      {
       System.out.println("test");
            return null;
      }

Mick Barry

the web service accepts multipart http requests, you need to send it one
theres an example here for sending one with httpclient http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpmime/examples/org/apache/http/examples/entity/mime/ClientMultipartFormPost.java

cgray1223

ASKER

Thanks objects, I did see that example, but I didn't see a way to pass the byte array as a MultipartEntity part...

Mick Barry

easiest is to just have the data you want to send in a file

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