putting data-binary data

[ngw]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is supported at all by faraday, but I'm trying to do and HTTP PUT request with faraday and I'm stuck to what curl calls --data-binary format. The request is:

> curl -X PUT https://your_user_token:@api.80legs.com/v2/urllists/name_of_url_list -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" --data-binary "[\"http://www.example.com/\", \"http://www.sample.com/\", \"http://www.test.com/\"]" -i

What I'm trying to do is:

conn = Faraday.new(url: "https://#{token}:@api.80legs.com/v2/urllists/#{name}") do |faraday|
  faraday.request :multipart
  faraday.response :logger
end
conn.put do |req|
  req.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/octet-stream'
  req.body = url_list.to_s
end

But it doesn't work: https://gist.github.com/ngw/ef5cdb2fb7648016ba1f

Can I do such a request?

[technoweenie]

That exception is from the :logger middleware and has nothing to do with posting binary data. Also, you should take out the :multipart middleware, that'll try to convert the body to a multipart form post. I don't use the logger middleware, but it looks like the response didn't really finish (no status or response headers).

[mislav]

You did almost everything right, but forgot to state the adapter. You should add the adapter line:

conn = Faraday.new(url: "...") do |faraday|
  faraday.request :multipart
  faraday.response :logger
  faraday.adapter :net_http
end

You don't have to take out the :multipart middleware (@technoweenie's response isn't entirely correct), since the middleware will safely ignore requests with an explicit Content-type. You can leave the logger middleware as well.

[O-I]

@ngw I know this is an older issue, but did mislav's answer of making sure to specify the Faraday adapter solve your problem? If it did, would you mind closing the issue when it's convenient for you? And if there is still some issue, please write back and I'll try to help resolve. 😃 Thanks!

[ngw]

Yes, no idea why I forgot to close this... Sorry guys