Post: Multipart Upload

Note

This feature is only available on-premises, as of API Fortress version 20.2.0.
This feature also requires that you update the “remotedownloadagent” to the latest version as well.

The following instructions are to show how to make a POST call with an entire file included in the data.

Mounting a Volume

For multipart, API Fortress will look for files in the /data directory, so you’ll have to mount a volume to the /data directory. For example, if you’re using docker-compose, it’s done like this:

• Navigate to the /core/ directory.
• Stop “apifortress” but issuing the following command:
  sudo docker-compose stop apifortress
• Open the “docker-compose.yml” file. 
• There is a section labeled “#APIFORTRESS DASHBOARD”, at the bottom of this section there will be a “volumes” section.  
• Here you will see “# – ./data:/data” you can uncomment this line by getting rid of the “#”
• This will create a folder called “data” in the “/core/” directory.

    volumes:

    - ./tomcat_conf/conf:/usr/local/tomcat/conf

    # - ./bin:/usr/local/tomcat/bin

    - ./data:/data

Make a Multipart POST Call

Now that we have a directory mounted we can make the POST call using a file from the “/data/” folder. 

• You can add a “post parameter” to your POST call to load the file into.
• Give the post parameter a name and craft the value using the following notation: “@file:filename.extension”.
• If the name matches a file in the /data/ directory, then the whole form becomes a form-data type, and the file will be uploaded as a multipart.