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Reputation: 83527

Add file to multipart form request in IntelliJ HTTP Client

I am attempting to POST an HTTP request to the Mindee API using IntelliJ IDEA's HTTP client. Specifically, I want to upload an image of a receipt. According to the documentation, the form data must have the form

{ file: your_file }

So my question is...how do I specify the field name for a file in IntelliJ's HTTP client? What is the syntax?

I've tried a few different things with similar results. I get

POST https://api.mindee.net/products/expense_receipts/v3/predict

HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:18:15 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 84
Connection: keep-alive
Server: nginx/1.15.12
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

{
  "details": {
    "file": [
      "This field is required."
    ]
  },
  "message": "Invalid fields in form"
}

Here are two of my attempts:

POST https://api.mindee.net/products/expense_receipts/v3/predict
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; bundary=boundary
X-Inferuser-Token: <my token>
{
    file: < /path/to/image.jpg
}


POST https://api.mindee.net/products/expense_receipts/v3/predict
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; bundary=boundary
X-Inferuser-Token: <my token>

--boundary

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"
< /path/to/image.jpg

--boundary--

The second seemed the most promising since it took longer to return a response, but I still got the same thing.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3077

Answers (1)

Eugene Morozov
Eugene Morozov

Reputation: 3043

The second attempt request should work okay, but you have a typo in there - bundary instead of boundary.

Upvotes: 3

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