Spring MVC file upload without multipart/form-data?

Question

I have a path like POST /animals/1/images. I have read in the documentation that you can declare MultipartFile as a parameter and it will contain the file. But is this right? I mean, when you only have one file to upload (or an array of files) do I need to use the content type multipart/form-data? If not, how should the method signature be?

Answer 1

You can use this code fragment:

@POST
@Path("/uploadfile")
public void upload(File file) {
  //TODO code goes here


}