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Hugo Koopmans
Hugo Koopmans

Reputation: 1369

writing multiple documents to Marklogic REST extension using multipart/form-data

I have seen documententaion here:

http://docs.marklogic.com/guide/rest-dev/bulk#id_54649

It starts with " To write multiple documents in a single request, send a POST request to the /v1/documents service with a URL of the following form and set the Content-Type header to multipart/mixed. "

Problem is I use python Requests that, by default, uses content-type multipart/form-data which I cannot change see other SO question

So my question: can I set up Marklogic REST extension so it uses multipart/form-data instead of multipart/mixed

Upvotes: 3

Views: 400

Answers (2)

Charles Foster
Charles Foster

Reputation: 338

XQRS can accept file uploads via multipart/form-data requests no sweat, including multiple uploads of course. It's also a great and simple way of making RESTful Web Services on MarkLogic. Check it out.

Upvotes: 1

grtjn
grtjn

Reputation: 20414

As detailed in the python SO question you are referring to, there are libraries that should allow you to compose a true multipart/mixed request to use against /v1/documents.

Having said that, I think it should be real easy to support multipart/form-data from anywhere inside MarkLogic. It is supported natively, and from the looks of it REST extensions can work with them too.

I ran a quick test with an HTML upload form that uses method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data". Inside the form you can use input field of type file. Regarding REST extensions, just make sure you prefix any input field name with rs: as required for custom params to REST extensions. And if you want to insert the files into the database, you will need to annotate the REST extension post function with %rapi:transaction-mode("update") to make sure it runs in update mode.

You'll have to translate the above to Python of course, but that shouldn't be difficult.

HTH!

Upvotes: 0

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