This is not strictly a BaseX question but it is in the context of communicating with a BaseX-implemented REST service and I’m hoping someone in this community can answer my question as I’ve not found a solution the interwebs.
I’ve implemented a POST method that expects a multi-part form request with multiple files that then loads those files into a database. The files are all related such that I want something close to an atomic commit for the set of files. Thus the multi-file form approach.
The REST method works and I can use from the command line using curl, i.e:
curl --location http://localhost:9984/now/rest/validation/reports?debug=false \ --form 'files=@"/Users/eliot.kimber/git-basex/product-content-analytics/validation-reports/vancouver/bundle-strategic-portfolio-mgmt_errors_vancouver_2023-08-14T22~11~28Z_1ae692f8_1692054936.xml"' \ --form 'files=@"/Users/eliot.kimber/git-basex/product-content-analytics/validation-reports/vancouver/bundle-tech-technology-industry_errors_vancouver_2023-08-14T22~11~28Z_1ae692f8_1692054971.xml"'
What I haven’t been able to figure out is how to construct the equivalent curl command in a bash script, where the script gets a list of flies to load and then constructs the –form parameters.
Everything I’ve tried results in a “Warning: Trailing data after quoted form parameter” message or some more utter failure.
It must be some subtlety of how to escape the quotes—my googling around produces lots of stack overflow discussions of how to manage the escapes, but nothing I’ve tried has so far worked.
My bash approach is simply:
curlcmd=”curl --location …” for file in ${files[@]}; do curlcmd+=” --form ‘files=@\”${file}\”’ done
And then execute the resulting string:
bash -c $curlcmd
I have a separate script that successfully constructs a curl call to a companion end point that takes one file:
curl \ "--location" "${serverUrl}:${serverPort}/now/rest/validation/report/${fileName}?debug=${debug}" \ "--header" "Content-Type: text/xml" \ "--data-binary" "@${filePath}"
And I’m currently just calling this for each file, which is OK.
But I’d really like to be able to send a set of files as a single REST call.
Thanks,
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