Re: [Resteasy-developers] new multipart support

[Bill B. <bb...@re...>]

The badness is that it screws up Resteasy.

Like for instance www-urlencoded-form, if any filter does 
httpRequest.getParameter("someFormParam") it will screw up Resteasy as 
Resteasy expects to read form data within the InputStream.

I fixed this in trunk, but a few people ran into this problem.

Mike Chack (mchack) wrote:
> I'll give it some thought. I alsways like to think that simple is better
> but it is hard to know when to draw the line relative to content types.
> 
> BTW., I had a slightly different problem that I was trying to solve. I
> am using a custom servlet filter to implement a security front end. As
> part of this I need the a sessionid as an input parameter. Usually
> passed as a query string parameter. My client was a GWT application that
> was using a form widget to upload a file. The widget was not able to
> submit mulipart form and still present query string parameters. So, I
> had to access multipart form in the servlet filter. Not a great thing I
> found out as the input stream can't be reset.
> 
> By product of this is that I used O'Reilly servlet package here to
> access multipart as it has a Servlet Request Wrapper that parses the
> multipart data and stores files if any in a temp dir, later accessible
> by the upstream servlet.
> 
> Just another twist on the general problem. Any thoughts on this or the
> goodness/badness of having to access form data in a filter?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike Chack 
> O: +1 408.526.4639 
> M: +1 408.504.6594 
> mc...@ci... 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Burke [mailto:bb...@re...] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:02 PM
> To: Mike Chack (mchack)
> Cc: res...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Resteasy-developers] new multipart support
> 
> i.e. Content-Encoding: gzip
> 
> or something like that...
> 
> Bill Burke wrote:
>> I may have some more work to do with it.  I only support a simple 
>> encoding format.  I'm not sure if more complex encoding formats are 
>> popular when using multipart.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Mike Chack (mchack) wrote:
>>> Thanks. That should be really helpful. A day too late. Spent a bunch
> of
>>> time yesterday hacking a solution!!!!! I'll definitely refactor my
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> Mike Chack 
>>> O: +1 408.526.4639 
>>> M: +1 408.504.6594 
>>> mc...@ci... 
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Bill Burke [mailto:bb...@re...] 
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:45 PM
>>> To: res...@li...
>>> Subject: [Resteasy-developers] new multipart support
>>>
>>> I've spent this week doing some new multipart support:
>>>
>>>
> http://bill.burkecentral.com/2008/10/23/jax-rs-multipart-support-with-re
>>> steasy/
>>>
>>> It is written up more extensively in the docbook module.
>>>
> 

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