request.getInputStream() yields unreadable stream

[Carl Hall <ca...@hallwaytech.com>]

I'm trying to read the raw body of a request so I can proxy it over to
another service but can't seem to read an input stream from the request.

This is the gist of my code:

protected void doPost(SlingHttpServletRequest request,
SlingHttpServletResponse response)
      throws ServletException, IOException {
    InputStream is = request.getInputStream();
    int i = is.read();  // i == -1 , always
}

Should I use a different means to get an input stream for the request body?

Re: request.getInputStream() yields unreadable stream

[Felix Meschberger <fm...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Sling processes the raw request input for multipart/form-data requests
to be able to transparently provide posted form data. This is an
extension ot the Servlet API which explicitly states that the Servlet
Container does not parse multipart/form-data requests.

See [1] and [2] for full details and information on how to get at
uploaded binary data (file uploads).

Regards
Felix

[1] http://sling.apache.org/site/request-parameters.html
[2]
http://sling.apache.org/apidocs/sling5/index.html?org/apache/sling/api/request/RequestParameter.html

On 26.10.2010 22:09, Carl Hall wrote:
> I'm trying to read the raw body of a request so I can proxy it over to
> another service but can't seem to read an input stream from the request.
> 
> This is the gist of my code:
> 
> protected void doPost(SlingHttpServletRequest request,
> SlingHttpServletResponse response)
>       throws ServletException, IOException {
>     InputStream is = request.getInputStream();
>     int i = is.read();  // i == -1 , always
> }
> 
> Should I use a different means to get an input stream for the request body?
>