Comments on: How to PUT binary data with REST? http://www.codemonkeyism.com/archives/2008/02/25/how-to-put-binary-data-with-rest/ Programming is hard Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: stephan http://www.codemonkeyism.com/archives/2008/02/25/how-to-put-binary-data-with-rest/#comment-58422 stephan Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:45:05 +0000 http://stephan.reposita.org/archives/2008/02/25/how-to-put-binary-data-with-rest/#comment-58422 @Leonard: Thanks for your reply. Yes, a POST would do as well instead of a POST and PUT. I wasn't clear though, I have the need to add several images to one resource (e.g. different sized images or different quality). Use a POST and several PUTs? How do I add meta information like the file name, people in the picture etc which should go with the pictures? @Leonard: Thanks for your reply. Yes, a POST would do as well instead of a POST and PUT.

I wasn’t clear though, I have the need to add several images to one resource (e.g. different sized images or different quality). Use a POST and several PUTs? How do I add meta information like the file name, people in the picture etc which should go with the pictures?

]]> By: stephan http://www.codemonkeyism.com/archives/2008/02/25/how-to-put-binary-data-with-rest/#comment-58403 stephan Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:38:32 +0000 http://stephan.reposita.org/archives/2008/02/25/how-to-put-binary-data-with-rest/#comment-58403 Thanks, that's what I currently do with REST, doesn't look nice though. Not sure how it scales. Thanks, that’s what I currently do with REST, doesn’t look nice though. Not sure how it scales.

]]> By: Jason Carreira http://www.codemonkeyism.com/archives/2008/02/25/how-to-put-binary-data-with-rest/#comment-58309 Jason Carreira Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:51:06 +0000 http://stephan.reposita.org/archives/2008/02/25/how-to-put-binary-data-with-rest/#comment-58309 Base64 encoded and embedded as a CDATA block is what I'm using for an app right now... It's not for REST web access though. Base64 encoded and embedded as a CDATA block is what I’m using for an app right now… It’s not for REST web access though.

]]> By: Leonard http://www.codemonkeyism.com/archives/2008/02/25/how-to-put-binary-data-with-rest/#comment-58275 Leonard Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:34:01 +0000 http://stephan.reposita.org/archives/2008/02/25/how-to-put-binary-data-with-rest/#comment-58275 As co-author of the "bible" I respectfully ask you to reconsider "declare the binary object a resource and PUT binary data into it." Look at what AtomPub does (specifically, look at pages 279-280 of RWS; I don't like the way RFC 5023 explains it). An AtomPub member can have two representations: an Atom entry containing metadata, and a binary document containing data. They're different representations of a single resource, served from different URLs. The fact that you need two media types is usually a sign that you've either got two resources or two different representations of a resource. If this doesn't work for whatever reason, I'd probably go with MIME multipart. As co-author of the “bible” I respectfully ask you to reconsider “declare the binary object a resource and PUT binary data into it.” Look at what AtomPub does (specifically, look at pages 279-280 of RWS; I don’t like the way RFC 5023 explains it). An AtomPub member can have two representations: an Atom entry containing metadata, and a binary document containing data. They’re different representations of a single resource, served from different URLs.

The fact that you need two media types is usually a sign that you’ve either got two resources or two different representations of a resource. If this doesn’t work for whatever reason, I’d probably go with MIME multipart.

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