Question for Zend_Rest_Client/Server

[Georgi Sokolov]

Is there an easy way to send binary data over POST to a
Zend_Rest_Server? I didn't see that kind of example on the documentation
but I need to send binary data(image) to a REST service?

Thanks in advance,
Georgi

[Ben Ramsey-5]

On 3/12/08 10:55 AM, Georgi Sokolov wrote:
> Is there an easy way to send binary data over POST to a
> Zend_Rest_Server? I didn't see that kind of example on the documentation
> but I need to send binary data(image) to a REST service?

In version 1.5 of the Zend Framework, you'll be able to easily access the raw
POST data from a controller with $this->getRequest()->getRawBody(). See the
following issue for this:

http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-2723

For now, in your REST server class, you can access raw POST data with the PHP
input stream, like this:

$body = file_get_contents('php://input');

If someone posts binary data (or any other kind of data, for that matter), you
can use this to get the raw value of the POST.

--
Ben Ramsey
http://benramsey.com/

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney-3]

-- Georgi Sokolov <joro@...> wrote
(on Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 04:55 PM +0200):
> Is there an easy way to send binary data over POST to a
> Zend_Rest_Server? I didn't see that kind of example on the documentation
> but I need to send binary data(image) to a REST service?

Typically, if you're sending it via post, you encode it to base64 -- but
it will depend on the service you're posting to.

--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
PHP Developer            | matthew@...
Zend - The PHP Company   | http://www.zend.com/

[Isaak Malik-3]

Ben Ramsey schreef:

> On 3/12/08 10:55 AM, Georgi Sokolov wrote:
>> Is there an easy way to send binary data over POST to a
>> Zend_Rest_Server? I didn't see that kind of example on the documentation
>> but I need to send binary data(image) to a REST service?
>
> In version 1.5 of the Zend Framework, you'll be able to easily access
> the raw POST data from a controller with
> $this->getRequest()->getRawBody(). See the following issue for this:
>
> http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-2723
>
> For now, in your REST server class, you can access raw POST data with
> the PHP input stream, like this:
>
> $body = file_get_contents('php://input');
>
> If someone posts binary data (or any other kind of data, for that
> matter), you can use this to get the raw value of the POST.
>

Or why not convert the binary code with base64_encode() before sending
it to the REST server? This way you don't have to wait for version 1.5
of the ZFW to come out.

--
Isaak Malik
Web Developer
isooik@...

[Ben Ramsey-5]

On 3/12/08 11:22 AM, Isaak Malik wrote:

> Ben Ramsey schreef:
>> On 3/12/08 10:55 AM, Georgi Sokolov wrote:
>>> Is there an easy way to send binary data over POST to a
>>> Zend_Rest_Server? I didn't see that kind of example on the documentation
>>> but I need to send binary data(image) to a REST service?
>>
>> In version 1.5 of the Zend Framework, you'll be able to easily access
>> the raw POST data from a controller with
>> $this->getRequest()->getRawBody(). See the following issue for this:
>>
>> http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-2723
>>
>> For now, in your REST server class, you can access raw POST data with
>> the PHP input stream, like this:
>>
>> $body = file_get_contents('php://input');
>>
>> If someone posts binary data (or any other kind of data, for that
>> matter), you can use this to get the raw value of the POST.
>>
> Or why not convert the binary code with base64_encode() before sending
> it to the REST server? This way you don't have to wait for version 1.5
> of the ZFW to come out.
>

The getRawBody() method in version 1.5 doesn't specifically deal with binary
data. It gets the full entity body of the HTTP request regardless of whether it
is binary or base64-encoded.

Yes, I would recommend base64-encoding your binary data before posting/putting
it to any service, provided that service knows how to handle base64-encoded data.

But my comment above still applies if the data is base64-encoded. You can use
the php://input stream to get the full entity body from the request.

--
Ben Ramsey
http://benramsey.com/