Hi Billy, Your MyApplication has an associated "decoderService" property that will take care of automatically decoding incoming encoded/zipped representations. It's enabled by default, nothing else to do!
However, there is no "encoderService" available (yet), that's why you need to manually use the EncodeRepresentation. There is a related RFE: http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=208 As for the "multi-part" error this is due to the fact that there is no multi-part client-side support in Restlet (yet). There is a related RFE too: http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=71 In general this is fine because this is generally used from a browser, but in cases like yours this is a limitation indeed. Currently you can only send one representation/file/document at a time. If it's really blocking you, two workarounds: - do two separate POSTs instead of one - create a Zip archive locally containing your two files and send it using a normal POST (no need for Restlet FileUpload on the server in this case). To make your server flexible, you can test the media type of incoming request's entity: if(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA.equals(request.getEntity().getMediaType())) { // use Restlet FileUpload extension } else { // direclty use the incoming entity } In term of documentation we are planning to write some more detailed documentation (maybe a book) during the end of the year, for the 1.1 release. Currently, there is good coverage in the "RESTful Web Services" book: http://www.restlet.org/documentation/books Best regards, Jerome > -----Message d'origine----- > De : news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de billy > Envoyé : mardi 10 juillet 2007 13:42 > À : [email protected] > Objet : Re: How to send files using Restlet > > Hi Thierrry, Jerome: > > I received Thierrry's sample code to put files: > > Component component = new Component(); > component.getServers().add(Protocol.HTTP, 8182); > > component.getDefaultHost().attach("/essai", > new MyApplication(component.getContext())); > component.start(); > > /* Launches a simple client */ > FileRepresentation rep = new FileRepresentation( > "d:\\temp\\test.txt", MediaType.TEXT_ALL, 0); > EncodeRepresentation encodedRep = new > EncodeRepresentation(Encoding.GZIP, > rep); > Client client = new Client(Protocol.HTTP); > Response response = > client.put("http://localhost:8182/essai/";, encodedRep); > System.out.println("******" + response.getStatus()); > > /* Stops the server */ > component.stop(); > > Thanks a lot. The follow-up questions are: > 1) For the server, is there a way to store the file AND the > parameters that > the client may send along? > 2) Does "Encoding.GZIP" mean to zip/compress the file before > sending? If yes, > why there is no corresponding method for the server to unzip > the file? Is > the "Encoding" automatically recognized by the server? > > > > Also, I original had this server code (found in this forum or > other related > forum) to store files and the parameters that clients may send: > > > DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory(); > RestletFileUpload upload = new RestletFileUpload(factory); > try > { > List items = upload.parseRequest(request); > String xml_text=""; > > //récupérer le xml et l'image > int i = 0; > for (final Iterator it = items.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) { > FileItem fi = (FileItem)it.next(); > > File saveTo = new File("c:\\temp\\FileReqReceived" + > i + ".txt"); > fi.write(saveTo); > > i++; > } > } > > > However, I did not know how to send files using Restlet so I > used other > methods to write the client. I tried to use the above server > code to receive > file requests sent by using this code: > > FileRepresentation rep = new FileRepresentation( > "d:\\temp\\test.txt", MediaType.TEXT_ALL, 0); > EncodeRepresentation encodedRep = new > EncodeRepresentation(Encoding.GZIP, > rep); > Client client = new Client(Protocol.HTTP); > Response response = > client.put("http://localhost:8182/essai/";, encodedRep); > System.out.println("******" + response.getStatus()) > > > There was an error: > > the request doesn't contain a multipart/form-data or > multipart/mixed stream, > content type header is text/* > > It seems that the server is expecting multipart/form-data. > How can I modify > the server code so that it can receive both > multipart/form-data and other > types of data? > > I understand lengthy documentation for Restlet may not be > available at the > moment. What other documents would you recommend so that I > can learn from them > and then apply the reasoning, coding style etc. when I write > develop Restlet > applications? > > Regards, billy
