Hi Fan,
A couple of things to try.
1. Use a field name to associate to the file: curl -X PUT
"http://localhost:8111"; -F "upload=@file.txt"
2. According to the @Put JavaDoc, you use a String return type with a
String argument. However, you usually don't need a return type from
a PUT since the common paradigm is to redirect to a GET. My
declaration looks like this:
On 07/16/2013 08:20 AM, Fan J wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a novice to Restlet and learning to build something with it. I am using
> Restlet 2.1.2 J2SE package. Now I am stuck with accepting file upload using
> @Put annotation. The following is my code of @Put method.
>
> private static final String tmp = "/tmp/restlet/";
> ...
> @Put
> public String store(Representation entity) throws Exception{
> if(entity == null){
> setStatus(Status.CLIENT_ERROR_BAD_REQUEST);
> return "";
> }
>
> if(!MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA.equals(entity.getMediaType(),
> true)){
> setStatus(Status.CLIENT_ERROR_BAD_REQUEST);
> return "";
> }
>
> DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
> factory.setSizeThreshold(1024000);
>
> RestletFileUpload upload = new RestletFileUpload(factory);
>
> List items = upload.parseRepresentation(entity);
>
> for(FileItem fi : items){
> File file = new File(tmp + fi.getName());
> fi.write(file);
> System.out.println(fi.getName());
> }
>
> setStatus(Status.SUCCESS_OK);
> return "";
> }
> Then I send PUT requests using cURL like these:
>
> curl -T file.txt http://localhost:8111/
> curl -X PUT -T file.txt http://localhost:8111/
> curl -X PUT --data @file.txt http://localhost:8111/
> but finally got a 400 error. I doubt it is probably the problem of my code
> but not syntax of the cURL command. Basically, the problem is that the
> parameter, entity, could not get the uploading file and is still a null as
> the code proceeds. Is there anyone who has similar experience? Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
> dchampion
>
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