Hi Roland,
Do you mean I should create another RequestEntity class to extend the
current MultipartRequestEntity and override the getContentType() method?
From the getContentType() method, we can find that the contentType is fixed
to be "multipart/form-data". What if I setContentType to the post method
explicitly? Will it take any effect?
I have written some code for this task. My codes look ok but just doesn't
work. I have the following specific questions regarding using HttpClient to
achieve the purpose of sending SOAP with attachment files:
1. SOAP part:
StringPart soapPart = new StringPart("soapPart", soapRequest);
soapPart.setContentType("text/xml");
soapPart.setCharSet(null);
What kind of CharSet should I use? When I use XML Exchanger to send an HTTP
request with SOAP and attachment files, the charset is not set in soapPart
or filePart. However, HttpClient by default add ISO-8859-1 as charset. Is it
compulsary for me to setCharSet as null?
2. Http contentType:
Before executing post method, I set the content type as follows:
post.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "multipart/related; boundary=" +
soapPart.getBoundary());
But the effect is that the Http body is lost inspecting from TCPMonitor.
By the way, I searched the HttpClient documentations and samples from
Apache website, but could not find information about sending SOAP with
attachment files. I think this task should be quite common. If possible,
could you give me some pointer to that?
Regards,
Xinjun
On 5/14/07, Roland Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Xinjun,
> I constructed a PostMethod and set MultipartRequestEntity. I put the
> SOAPRequest as a StringPart, and the attachment as a FilePart.
HttpClient
> does not generate the desired MIME Request. I want to specify the
StringPart
> content-type as "text/xml; charset=UTF-8", but HttpClient just generated
> "text/plain; charset=US-ASCII" even if I explicitly set content-type
header.
You can override MultipartRequestEntity.getContentType() to specify
the value for the Content-Type header. An explicitly set header will
be overwritten.
hope that helps,
Roland
