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LuckyLuke
LuckyLuke

Reputation: 49057

Spring MVC file upload without multipart/form-data?

I have a path like POST /animals/1/images. I have read in the documentation that you can declare MultipartFile as a parameter and it will contain the file. But is this right? I mean, when you only have one file to upload (or an array of files) do I need to use the content type multipart/form-data? If not, how should the method signature be?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4828

Answers (2)

Tarcisio Cardoso
Tarcisio Cardoso

Reputation: 11

You can use this code fragment:

@POST
@Path("/uploadfile")
public void upload(File file) {
  //TODO code goes here


}

Upvotes: 1

Mateusz Kubuszok
Mateusz Kubuszok

Reputation: 27535

As far as I know if you are uploading any file with POST via HTTP protocol, you have to use multipart/form-data. The form-data is just a name since usually (always?) when you are sending something via HTTP you use form.

Using MultipartFile parameter is a valid solution for this case - of course unless you prefer to write a whole Command object with MultipartFile as its only property, which would be preferred way, according to conventions.

Upvotes: 0

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