Multipart File upload using Springfox and Swagger-ui

Question

I'm using Spring MVC as a rest controller and I've integrated Swagger-ui with my controller using Springfox. I'd like to have a method that is able to upload a file via the Swagger-ui interface. I only need two parameters, a long acting for an object id and the file to be uploaded.

@RestController
public class controller{
    @RequestMapping(value="/upload", method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public void uploadFile(@RequestParam Long id,
                           @RequestParam MultipartFile file){
          //do some stuff
    }
}

I've tried almost everything and I can't get a file upload button to appear. However, if I do:

@RestController
public class Controller{
    @RequestMapping(value="/upload", method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public void uploadFile(@RequestParam Long id,
                           @RequestPart File file){
         //do some stuff
    }
}

The file upload button appears, but it always throws http code 415 when trying to upload a file. Besides, I need the input to be a MultipartFile, not a regular File. Even if I use the @RequestPart annotation with Multipart File, the choose file to upload button does not appear. How can I get this to work???? Even:

@RestController
public class Controller{
    @RequestMapping(value="/upload", method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public void uploadFile(@RequestPart String metaData,
                           @RequestPart MultipartFile file){
        //do some stuff
    }
}

Won't work. If someone could give a walkthrough of how to get this button to appear for MultipartFile? I'd be forever grateful.

Answer 1

I think you are missing the consumes attribute of the @RequestMapping in your second snippet. See the following example

@RequestMapping(
    path = "/upload", 
    method = RequestMethod.POST, 
    consumes = MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity<String> handleUpload(
        @RequestPart("file") MultipartFile file, 
        @RequestParam("someId") Long someId,         
        @RequestParam("someOtherId") Long someOtherId) { 
    return new ResponseEntity<>();
}