Elasticsearch seems does not support multipart/form-data requests

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the curl command:
curl -v -POST localhost:9200/_bulk --data-binary @requests

the php client code:
$post = array(
"file1"=>"@d:\requests"
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost:9200/_bulk");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 0);

$a=curl_exec($ch);
//$cinfo=curl_getinfo($ch);
print "result:" . $a;

curl_close($ch);

this code returns an error message ""Failed to derive xcontent from
org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.ChannelBufferBytesReference". Because the
request header is something like this:
DefaultHttpRequest(chunked: false)
POST /_bulk HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:9200
Accept: /
Expect: 100-continue
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=----------------------------6a8a98c02c48
Content-Length: 296

and the content is something like this:
------------------------------7490d35780e0
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file1"; filename="d:\requests"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

{ "index" : { "_index" : "test", "_type" : "type1", "_id" : "1" } }
{ "field1" : "value1" }

------------------------------7490d35780e0--

While in elasticsearch code :
public static XContentType xContentType(BytesReference bytes) {
int length = bytes.length() < GUESS_HEADER_LENGTH ? bytes.length()
: GUESS_HEADER_LENGTH;
if (length > 2 && bytes.get(0) == SmileConstants.HEADER_BYTE_1 &&
bytes.get(1) == SmileConstants.HEADER_BYTE_2 && bytes.get(2) ==
SmileConstants.HEADER_BYTE_3) {
return XContentType.SMILE;
}
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
if (bytes.get(i) == '{') {
return XContentType.JSON;
}
}
return null;
}

  The code can not find the character '{' in the first 20 characters,

so it returns an error.

  If I use the curl command with --data-binary @request, or change the

code "$post = array("file1"=>"@d:\requests");" to $post =
file_get_contents("d:\requests"), es can handle the case. At this time,
the request header is :
DefaultHttpRequest(chunked: false)
POST /_bulk HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:9200
Accept: /
Content-Length: 92
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

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anyone give me a help?

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3

Hey there,

if you post in curl with --data-binary your input data is used as is and
put in the POST request.

Your first request however is different, as you are doing a multipart form
data request. This does not send raw text data in the body, but rather does
another encoding on top of it (namely MIME). This is not supported by
elasticsearch - as it is not useful to do another encoding on top as needed
in HTTP for sending files.

Hope this helps,

--Alexander

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:31 AM, asoqa asoqa51@gmail.com wrote:

anyone give me a help?

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Elasticsearch does not support HTML, therefore it does not support
multipart/form-data media type.

Jörg

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