How extract files from response entity

Question

I have a servlet that gives the clients many files in one request. I put files(image,pdf,...) or other data (like json,...) as byte array in the response :

MultipartEntityBuilder builder = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();
ByteArrayBody pic1 = new ByteArrayBody(imageBytes1, "pic1.png");
ByteArrayBody pic2 = new ByteArrayBody(imageBytes2, "pic2.png");

builder.addPart("img1",  pic1);  
builder.addPart("img2",  pic2);  

StringBody sb = new StringBody(responseJson.toString(),ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);

builder.addPart("projectsJson", sb);

String boundary = "***************<<boundary>>****************";
builder.setBoundary(boundary);              

HttpEntity entity = builder.build();

entity.writeTo(response.getOutputStream());

I get the response (in the client side) like :

String body = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
System.out.println("body : " + body);

and the body is :

    --***************<<boundary>>****************
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="pdf1"; filename="test2"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="img1"; filename="fgfgf"
Content-Type: image/png

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How can i extract data`s (images , pdf , json , ... ) from response.

please help me. thanks.

@KenBekov . I have a method(first code above) in my servlet that write response.outputStream : entity.writeTo(response.getOutputStream()); — Habib Zare, Jan 16 '16 at 08:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 16 '16 at 17:57

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Possible, Apache FileUpload will help you. We use it in servlets for upload files.

answered Jan 16 '16 at 17:57

Ken Bekov

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I use that for upload. my question is for download. – Habib Zare Jan 17 '16 at 05:38

Habib Zare · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-18T12:17:54.027

I use the javax.mail API.

For test :

    ByteArrayDataSource ds = new ByteArrayDataSource (response.getEntity().getContent(), "multipart/mixed");
    MimeMultipart multipart = new MimeMultipart(ds);  
for (int i = 0; i < multipart.getCount(); i++) {
    BodyPart bodyPart = multipart.getBodyPart(i);

    System.out.println("body : " + bodyPart.getFileName());
    System.out.println("body : " + bodyPart.getContentType());

    DataHandler handler = bodyPart.getDataHandler();
    System.out.println("handler : " + handler.getName());
    System.out.println("handler : " + handler.getContentType());



    String curContentType = handler.getContentType();

    if (curContentType.equalsIgnoreCase("application/json")) {
        ByteArrayOutputStream arrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        handler.writeTo(arrayOutputStream);
        System.out.println("projectsJson : " + arrayOutputStream);
    } else {
        OutputStream outputStream = null;
        String ext = "";
        if (curContentType.equalsIgnoreCase("image/gif")) {
            ext = ".gif";
        } else if (curContentType.equalsIgnoreCase("image/jpeg")) {
            ext = ".jpg";
        }else if (curContentType.equalsIgnoreCase("image/png")) {
            ext = ".png";
        } else if (curContentType.equalsIgnoreCase("image/bmp")) {
            ext = ".bmp";
        } else if (curContentType.equalsIgnoreCase("application/pdf")
                || (curContentType.equalsIgnoreCase("application/x-pdf"))) {
            ext = ".pdf";
        }

        outputStream = new FileOutputStream(handler.getName()+ext);
        handler.writeTo(outputStream);
        outputStream.flush();
        outputStream.close();

    }
}

This works good.

Also You can use Apache FileUpload.

for test :

    byte[] bodyarr = toByteArr(response.getEntity().getContent());
    byte[] boundary = "*************boundary>>****************".getBytes();

    ByteArrayInputStream bis = new ByteArrayInputStream(bodyarr);
    MultipartStream stream;

    stream = new MultipartStream(bis,boundary);     

    boolean hasNextPart = stream.skipPreamble();

    while (hasNextPart) {
        String header=stream.readHeaders();
        String name = getNameFromHeader(header);

        //if data is image 
        FileOutputStream outputStream = new  FileOutputStream(name+".png");
        stream.readBodyData(outputStream);

        hasNextPart = stream.readBoundary();

    }

Enjoy.

How extract files from response entity

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