if you can guarantee small data, and you have some level of confidence that 
your service can't be abused, file uploading into an NSData is maybe OK … 
otherwise you should be using the multipart request file upload API's in WO. 
You'll have to do a little plumbing yourself.

ms

On May 3, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:

> Mike -
> 
> Oh, thanks, and I probably don't want to, but I didn't see the ERRestRoute I 
> kinda expected?
> 
> I just put image data (NSData) into the form on my client app, and figured 
> I'd get it out of the form on the server.
> 
> What's my best rout to implement this type of file upload, given that my 
> model and eo's work ok for the web client already.
> 
> I'm just going from iphone to WO, as I'm sure many of us are.
> 
> 
> On May 3, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> 
>> write it to a file … you probably don't ever want file uploads into 
>> NSData's, btw.
>> 
>> ms
>> 
>> On May 3, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Henrique,
>>> 
>>> Ah, a processor makes sense. I use "S3" and I'm just getting Form-values 
>>> for the filename and nsdata.
>>> 
>>> What I can see is an API with a java.io.File, and not the NSData 
>>> "posterData" which I got from the form values?
>>> 
>>>             NSData posterData = 
>>> (NSData)formValuesDictionary.valueForKeyPath("poster"); 
>>>             ERAttachment attachment = 
>>> ERAttachmentProcessor.processorForType("s3").process(editingContext(), 
>>> posterData, (String)dic.valueForKeyPath("filename"));
>>> 
>>> Am I following you correctly in that I should use this S3 processor API ? I 
>>> guess I'd have to write the NSData to a temp file?
>>> 
>>> Or is there an API I'm confusing which would handle the NSData I get from 
>>> the form?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 3, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Henrique Prange wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Jesse,
>>>> 
>>>> ERAttachment is an abstract class. You can't instantiate it using the 
>>>> createERAttachment method.
>>>> 
>>>> You should create the attachment using the ERAttachmentProcessor instead:
>>>> 
>>>> ERAttachment attachment = 
>>>> ERAttachmentProcessor.processorForType(storageType).process(editingContext,
>>>>  uploadedFile, originalFileName, mimeType, configurationName, ownerID);
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Henrique
>>>> 
>>>> On 02/05/2011, at 15:30, Jesse Tayler wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'm trying to create an ERAttachment via ERRest, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I didn't see an ERRestRoute for uploading file attachments but maybe 
>>>>> that's what I'm missing?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I get a creation error while trying to create ERAttachment, and I realize 
>>>>> I likely should be creating the ERAttachmentData object first, or more 
>>>>> likely, find the ERRestRoute that's best for uploading a new file 
>>>>> attachment?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>           NSData posterData = (NSData)dic.valueForKeyPath("poster");
>>>>>           ERAttachment attachment = 
>>>>> ERAttachment.createERAttachment(editingContext(), true, new 
>>>>> NSTimestamp(), (String)dic.valueForKeyPath("mimetype"), 
>>>>> (String)dic.valueForKeyPath("filename"), false, sizeInteger, 
>>>>> webPathString));
>>>>>           user().setPoster(attachment);
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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