Multipart Support

In Spring, the Servlet stack support Multipart by Servlet 3.0+ built-in multipart feature or Apache Commons IO. The new WebFlux stack also add Multipart support.

The Part presents a part in a multipart/form-data request, it could be a FilePart orFormFieldPart in a browser or any content type outside of browser .

Like the general @Controller, it accepts a reactive Part parameter wrapped with Mono or Flux.

For example, the following method demonstrates the possible parameters can be processed in WebFlux.

@PostMapping("/requestBodyMap")
Mono<String> requestBodyMap(
    @RequestPart("fileParts") FilePart fileParts,
	@RequestPart("fileParts") Mono<FilePart> filePartsMono,
	@RequestPart("fileParts") Flux<FilePart> filePartsFlux,
    @RequestBody Mono<MultiValueMap<String, Part>> partsMono) {
      
}

For the complete codes, check spring-reactive-sample/multipart.

Now let’s go to a more complex example File upload and download - which is more close to the real world application.

1. Create a Mongo GridfsTemplate bean.

   @Bean
   public ReactiveGridFsTemplate reactiveGridFsTemplate() throws Exception {
       return new ReactiveGridFsTemplate(reactiveMongoDbFactory(), mappingMongoConverter());
   }
   

2. Create a Controller to handle upload and download.

   @RestController()
   @RequestMapping(value = "/multipart")
   @RequiredArgsConstructor
   public class MultipartController {
   
       private final ReactiveGridFsTemplate gridFsTemplate;
   
       @PostMapping("")
       public Mono<ResponseEntity> upload(@RequestPart Mono<FilePart> fileParts) {
           return fileParts
               .flatMap(part -> this.gridFsTemplate.store(part.content(), part.filename()))
               .map((id) -> ok().body(Map.of("id", id.toHexString())));
       }
       
       @GetMapping("{id}")
       public Flux<Void> read(@PathVariable String id, ServerWebExchange exchange) {
           return this.gridFsTemplate.findOne(query(where("_id").is(id)))
               .log()
               .flatMap(gridFsTemplate::getResource)
               .flatMapMany(r -> exchange.getResponse().writeWith(r.getDownloadStream()));
       }
      
   }
   

   In the above codes, upload is used for uploading, the gridFstemplate store the filePart content and return the id to client. The read method reads content from Mongo according the provided id, write the content into the web response.

3. There is a MultipartBodyBuilder can be used to build multipart in client. The following is an example use MultipartBodyBuilder in testing codes.

   @SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
   @Slf4j
   public class DemoApplicationTests {
   
       @LocalServerPort
       private int port;
   
       WebTestClient client;
   
       @BeforeEach
       public void setup() {
           this.client = WebTestClient.bindToServer()
               .baseUrl("http://localhost:" + this.port)
               .build();
       }
   
       private MultiValueMap<String, HttpEntity<?>> generateBody() {
           MultipartBodyBuilder builder = new MultipartBodyBuilder();
           builder.part("fileParts", new ClassPathResource("/foo.txt", DemoApplicationTests.class));
           return builder.build();
       }
   
       @Test
       public void testUpload() throws IOException {
           byte[] result = client
               .post()
               .uri("/multipart")
               .bodyValue(generateBody())
               .exchange()
               .expectStatus().isOk()
               .expectBody().returnResult().getResponseBody();
   
           ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
           Map bodyMap = objectMapper.readValue(result, Map.class);
   
           String fileId = (String) bodyMap.get("id");
           log.debug("updated file id:" + fileId);
           assertNotNull(fileId);
   
           client
               .get()
               .uri("/multipart/{id}", fileId)
               .exchange()
               .expectStatus().isOk();
   
       }
   
   }
   

For the complete codes, check spring-reactive-sample/multipart-data-mongo and spring-reactive-sample/boot-data-mongo-gridfs.