Re: [codec-multipart] Who's In Charge

[Eric Dalquist]

Sorry about that last reply being to the wrong email.
Thinking more about the structure of the Encoder and Decoder interfaces 
I need to discuss what I see as the requirements on a multipart encoder 
with you or someone else who is more familiar with the codec package and 
get your options.

The basic idea is you have a Part interface. From that there is a 
StringPart and a FilePart.
The MultipartEncoder would need to take an array of Parts and encode 
them into a multipart message. One big difference is because of the 
possible size of a multipart message the preferred way to get the output 
of the encoder would be via an InputStream. This would allow the message 
to be constructed on the fly and written to the caller. The caller could 
then write the data directly out to whatever needs it, keeping memory 
usage down to a minimum. I'm not sure how this method of encoding would 
be handled by the current Encoder interface.
Also for decoding the opposite would be true. The decoder would need to 
read it's data from an InputStream and return an array of parts. The 
decoder would provide the option for file data to be written to a user 
specified temp directory so the only data stored in the Part objects 
would be a reference to the temp file via a File object.

Let me know what you think of this.
-Eric Dalquist
Gary Gregory wrote:
Hello,
The only person I see in codec-multipart/project.xml is:
       <developer>
           <name>Mark Diggory</name>
           <id>mdiggory</id>
           <email>mdiggory at apache.org</email>
       </developer>
I am the codec 1.3 release manager for now and I cannot say much about
multipart apart from knowing that it exists and that volunteers are
welcome.
Perhaps you could discuss on this list the pros and cons for a multipart
addition to the next feature release of codec. A proposal type of thing
;-)
Gary
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Dalquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 10:29
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Subject: [codec-multipart] Who's In Charge
I'm wondering who I should talk about about the codex-multipart
   

project
 

in the commons sandbox. I have some changes that I really would like
   

to
 

discuss with the maintainer.
-Eric Dalquist
Eric Dalquist wrote:
   

I needed to find a way to reconstruct a submitted multipart form
     

from
 

the files and parameters stored in temp locations. I was directed to
the codec-multipart code and found it did part of what I wanted. I
     

did
 

make some rather extensive changes  to the way it functions to make
     

it
 

fit my application.
The big issues I had were with the inability to control the boundary
and the fact that by using static methods for a majority of the work
the code was not threadsafe. I would be more that willing to submit
     

my
 

changes for review and make modifications to the architecture as
needed to get the code accepted into the codec-multipart project.
Please let me know two who or where I should upload the modified
     

source.
 

-Eric Dalquist
     

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