使用REST WebService和VB.NET的附件

时间:2011-05-26 15:41:05

标签: vb.net rest attachment rt

我目前正在使用VB.NET开发一个应用程序,我正在使用REST WebServices。我已经能够使用REST完成基础知识,但是,我无法添加附件(更具体地说,上传文件,使用附加的REST)。我在网上做了大量的研究,但到目前为止我还没有找到VB.NET中的任何工作实例。要实际上传数据我使用System.Net.WebClient。以下VB.NET代码完成了重要的工作:

Dim Client As New System.Net.WebClient
Dim postBytes As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postString)
Client.UploadData(URL, "POST", postBytes)

我的网址的简化版如下:     "../REST/1.0/ticket/" + ticketNumber + "/comment?user=" + userName + "&pass=" + password

最后,我发布的内容示例如下:

postString = "content=Text: RT Test" + vbLf + "Action: Comment" + vbLf + "Attachment: examplefile.jpg" + vbLf + "attachment_1="

如您所见,postString被转换为字节,然后上传到服务器。但是,我不知道我应该在哪里或如何发布原始附件本身。我们专门使用的服务文档声明使用变量“attachment_1”,我将其添加到postString变量中,但我不确定下一步应该是什么。文件应该转换为字节并附加到postBytes变量吗?我尝试过这样的事情,但是我收到一条错误,说没有找到examplefile.jpg附件。

感谢您的帮助!

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

我们无法使用Client.UploadData(...)并且必须将整个帖子转换为字节,从附件之前的POST字段开始,然后是附件本身,最后是POST字段的其余部分。

Public Sub AddAttachmentToRT(ByVal url As String, ByVal fileName As String, ByVal filePath As String)

    Dim dataBoundary As String = "--xYzZY"
    Dim request As HttpWebRequest
    Dim fileType As String = "image/jpeg" 'Will want to extract this to make it more generic from the uploaded file.

    'Create a POST web request to the REST interface using the passed URL
    request = CType(WebRequest.Create(url), HttpWebRequest)
    request.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=xYzZY"
    request.Method = "POST"
    request.KeepAlive = True

    'Write the request to the requestStream
    Using requestStream As IO.Stream = request.GetRequestStream()

        'Create a variable "attachment_1" in the POST, specify the file name and file type
        Dim preAttachment As String = dataBoundary + vbCrLf _
        + "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=""attachment_1""; filename=""" + fileName + """" + vbCrLf _
        + "Content-Type: " + fileType + vbCrLf _
        + vbCrLf

        'Convert this preAttachment string to bytes
        Dim preAttachmentBytes As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(preAttachment)

        'Write this preAttachment string to the stream
        requestStream.Write(preAttachmentBytes, 0, preAttachmentBytes.Length)

        'Write the file as bytes to the stream by passing its exact location
        Using fileStream As New IO.FileStream(Server.MapPath(filePath + fileName), IO.FileMode.Open, IO.FileAccess.Read)

            Dim buffer(4096) As Byte
            Dim bytesRead As Int32 = fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)

            Do While (bytesRead > 0)

                requestStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead)
                bytesRead = fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)

            Loop

        End Using

        'Create a variable named content in the POST, specify the attachment name and comment text
        Dim postAttachment As String = vbCrLf _
        + dataBoundary + vbCrLf _
        + "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=""content""" + vbCrLf _
        + vbCrLf _
        + "Action: comment" + vbLf _
        + "Attachment: " + fileName + vbCrLf _
        + "Text: Some description" + vbCrLf _
        + vbCrLf _
        + "--xYzZY--"

        'Convert postAttachment string to bytes
        Dim postAttachmentBytes As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postAttachment)

        'Write the postAttachment string to the stream
        requestStream.Write(postAttachmentBytes, 0, postAttachmentBytes.Length)

    End Using

    Dim response As Net.WebResponse = Nothing

    'Get the response from our REST request to RT
    'Required to capture response, without this Try-Catch attaching will fail
    Try
        response = request.GetResponse()

        Using responseStream As IO.Stream = response.GetResponseStream()

            Using responseReader As New IO.StreamReader(responseStream)

                Dim responseText = responseReader.ReadToEnd()

            End Using

        End Using

    Catch exception As Net.WebException

        response = exception.Response

        If (response IsNot Nothing) Then

            Using reader As New IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())

                Dim responseText = reader.ReadToEnd()

            End Using

            response.Close()

        End If

    Finally

        request = Nothing

    End Try

End Sub