On Apr 18, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Jason Hunter wrote: > There's nothing built into MarkLogic that writes the multipart/form-data POST > body for you. You're going to have to format the POST message yourself > according to RFC 1867 with things like the boundary lines and content-type > headers. > > (Note that if you do that, it'd be a great thing to add to the commons shared > code repository on developer.marklogic.com.) > > The complexity you're going to hit is how to send a binary file in the middle > of an otherwise text POST body. MarkLogic doesn't make that easy. You can > set a binary() node as the POST body, but for RFC 1867 you'll have to > construct that binary() node yourself from a sequence of strings (boundary > lines and headers) and raw bytes (actual payload). If you're willing to > base64 or hex encode the binary file as a string and decode it on the server, > then the MarkLogic side will be easy. It's just one big string to manage. >
I'd like to try that first, but how do I get the binary's base64-encoded value, when xdmp:base64-encode() only accepts a string? > But if you can't do that, how would you construct the single binary() node > that's the combination of strings surrounding another binary() node? The > nasty hack that I envision is you'd want to start with the string, get its > hex or base64 encoded value, append the binary's hex or base 64 encoded > value, then convert that encoded byte sequence back to a binary() and POST > that. If I have to resort to this, how do I convert the base64 string to a binary? Thanks, Greg > > -jh- > > On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Murray, Gregory wrote: > >> I need to send an HTTP POST where the data includes multiple string >> parameters but also a binary file. How can I do this kind of >> multipart/form-data POST using xdmp:http-post? >> >> Thanks, >> Greg >> >> Gregory Murray >> Digital Library Application Developer >> Princeton Theological Seminary >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
