How can i handle multipart post request with akka http? - scala

Question

I wont to handle multipart request.
If I accept a request using such a route
val routePutData = path("api" / "putFile" / Segment) {
subDir => {
entity(as[String]) { (str) => {
complete(str)
}
}
}}
I get the following text(i try to send log4j config):
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="log4j.properties"
Content-Type: application/binary
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss} %t %-5p %c{1} - %m%n
----gc0pMUlT1B0uNdArYc0p--
How can i get array of bytes from file i send and file name?
I try to use entity(as[Multipart.FormData]), and formFields directive, but it didn't help.

Answer 1

You should keep up with the akka docs, but I think that there were not enought examples in the file uploading section. Anyway, you don't need to extract entity as a string or byte arrays, akka already has a directive, called fileUpload. This takes a parameter called fieldName which is the key to look for in the multipart request, and expects a function to know what to do given the metadata and the content of the file. Something like this:
post {
extractRequestContext { ctx =>
implicit val mat = ctx.materializer
fileUpload(fieldName = "myfile") {
case (metadata, byteSource) =>
val fileName = metadata.fileName
val futureBytes = byteSource
.mapConcat[Byte] { byteString =>
collection.immutable.Iterable.from(
byteString.iterator
)
}
.toMat(Sink.fold(Array.emptyByteArray) {
case (arr, newLine) => arr :+ newLine
}
)(Keep.right)
.run()
val filePath = Files.createFile(Paths.get(s"/DIR/TO/SAVE/FILE/$fileName"))
onSuccess(futureBytes.map(bytes => Files.write(filePath, bytes))) { _ =>
complete(s"wrote file to: ${filePath.toUri.toString}")
}
}
}
}

Answer 2

While the above solution looks good, there is also the storeUploadedFile directive to achieve the same with less code, sth like:
path("upload") {
def tempDestination(fileInfo: FileInfo): File = File.createTempFile(fileInfo.fileName, ".tmp.server")
storeUploadedFile("myfile", tempDestination) {
case (metadataFromClient: FileInfo, uploadedFile: File) =>
println(s"Server stored uploaded tmp file with name: ${uploadedFile.getName} (Metadata from client: $metadataFromClient)")
complete(HttpResponse(StatusCodes.OK))
}
}