On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 15:47 +1100, Scott Yeadon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Using HTTP components 4.0 I wanted to create a POST request using the 
> multipart/mixed content type. However the MultipartEntity does not allow 
> the contentType to be set and is hardcoded to multipart/form-data. 
> Looking through the API it looks as though the HttpMultipart class (and 
> its associated classes) are available to address the various multipart 
> media types, however it appears to be incompatible with HttpPost addPart 
> method as HttpMultipart does not implement the HttpEntity interface. I 
> could not locate an obvious class used for request handling for 
> "HttpMultipart"-based requests. It appears the simplest means to POST a 
> request with multipart/mixed contentType is to create a new entity class 
> implementing HttpEntity (e.g. MultipartMixedEntity) - is that correct or 
> are there other means of doing this with the 4.0 API?
> 

You will be better off just overriding the #generateContentTypre method
of the MultipartEntity class.


> Also, what is the relation between these sets of entity classes - the 
> HttpEntity implentations appear in the "entity" package and the others 
> appear in the "mime" package? Is there some sort of de-lineation or 
> usage rules for these classes I should be aware of?
> 

HttpMime is somewhat special because it is not fully API stable due to
its dependency on Mime4j, which is still considered API unstable.  

Hope this answers your question.

Oleg

> Thanks.
> 
> Scott.
> 
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