Adds a streamy multipart form post capability to Net::HTTP
. Also supports other
methods besides POST
.
- Appears to actually work. A good feature to have.
- Encapsulates posting of file/binary parts and name/value parameter parts, similar to most browsers' file upload forms.
- Provides an
UploadIO
helper class to prepare IO objects for inclusion in the params hash of the multipart post object.
bundle add multipart-post
require 'net/http/post/multipart'
url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/upload')
File.open("./image.jpg") do |jpg|
req = Net::HTTP::Post::Multipart.new url.path,
"file" => UploadIO.new(jpg, "image/jpeg", "image.jpg")
res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) do |http|
http.request(req)
end
end
To post multiple files or attachments, simply include multiple parameters with
UploadIO
values:
require 'net/http/post/multipart'
url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/upload')
req = Net::HTTP::Post::Multipart.new url.path,
"file1" => UploadIO.new(File.new("./image.jpg"), "image/jpeg", "image.jpg"),
"file2" => UploadIO.new(File.new("./image2.jpg"), "image/jpeg", "image2.jpg")
res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) do |http|
http.request(req)
end
To post files with other normal, non-file params such as input values, you need to pass hashes to the Multipart.new
method.
In Rails 4 for example:
def model_params
require_params = params.require(:model).permit(:param_one, :param_two, :param_three, :avatar)
require_params[:avatar] = model_params[:avatar].present? ? UploadIO.new(model_params[:avatar].tempfile, model_params[:avatar].content_type, model_params[:avatar].original_filename) : nil
require_params
end
require 'net/http/post/multipart'
url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/upload')
Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) do |http|
req = Net::HTTP::Post::Multipart.new(url, model_params)
key = "authorization_key"
req.add_field("Authorization", key) #add to Headers
http.use_ssl = (url.scheme == "https")
http.request(req)
end
Or in plain ruby:
def params(file)
params = { "description" => "A nice picture!" }
params[:datei] = UploadIO.new(file, "image/jpeg", "image.jpg")
params
end
url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/upload')
File.open("./image.jpg") do |file|
req = Net::HTTP::Post::Multipart.new(url.path, params(file))
res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) do |http|
return http.request(req).body
end
end
By default, all individual parts will include the header Content-Disposition
as well as Content-Length
, Content-Transfer-Encoding
and Content-Type
for the File Parts.
You may optionally configure the headers Content-Type
and Content-ID
for both ParamPart and FilePart by passing in a parts
header.
For example:
url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/upload')
params = {
"file_metadata_01" => { "description" => "A nice picture!" },
"file_content_01" => UploadIO.new(file, "image/jpeg", "image.jpg")
}
headers = {
'parts': {
'file_metadata_01': {
'Content-Type' => "application/json"
}
}
}
req = Net::HTTP::Post::Multipart.new(uri, params, headers)
This would configure the file_metadata_01
part to include Content-Type
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file_metadata_01"
Content-Type: application/json
{
"description" => "A nice picture!"
}
For FileParts only.
You can include any number of custom parts headers in addition to Content-Type
and Content-ID
.
headers = {
'parts': {
'file_metadata_01': {
'Content-Type' => "application/json",
'My-Custom-Header' => "Yo Yo!"
}
}
}
You can debug requests and responses (e.g. status codes) for all requests by adding the following code:
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.set_debug_output($stdout)
This library aims to adhere to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0. Violations of this scheme should be reported as bugs. Specifically, if a minor or patch version is released that breaks backward compatibility, a new version should be immediately released that restores compatibility. Breaking changes to the public API will only be introduced with new major versions.
As a result of this policy, you can (and should) specify a dependency on this gem using the Pessimistic Version Constraint with two digits of precision.
For example:
spec.add_dependency 'multipart-post', '~> 2.1'