How to send Multipart form data and upload PDF wit

Question

Good day Pals, In my microservice and spring-boot app, I have a frontend employee microservice which consumes another microservice with file upload endpoint. The calling service is based on spring rest controller and I am trying to consume a File-Upload endpoint using RestTemplate in a Spring Boot application. In a nutshell, trying to upload a PDF file.

I have explored the following SO post, but its not working for me:

jackson disable fail_on_empty_beans

I am testing this in postman and getting the following error:

org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotWritableException: Could not write content: No serializer found for class java.io.FileDescriptor and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer.

Any help will be appreciated pleasee ....

Below are the main components -

Rest Controller ############

        @RestController 
        
        @RequestMapping(path = “/employee”) 
        

        public class EmployeeController {
            private EmployeeService empService;

            @RequestMapping(value =“/emp/load”, method = RequestMethod.POST)

public
            @ResponseBody
            ResponseEntity<byte[]> handleFileUpload(
        @RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file, @RequestParam String a, @RequestParam String b, @RequestParam String c, @RequestParam String d, @RequestParam String e) throws Exception {
        

return empService.handleFileUpload(file, a, b, c, d, e);
    

            }
        }

The service Implementation

     @Service
            
     public class EmployeeServiceImpl implements EmployeeService{
            
        @Value(“${emp.base.url}")
                

    private String EMP_BASE_URI;
    

public ResponseEntity<byte[]>handleFileUpload(MultipartFile file, String a, String b, String c, String d, String e) {
    

final String uri = EMP_BASE_URI + "/upload";
    

            RestTemplate restTemplate = getMappedRestTemplate();
    

            MultiValueMap<String, Object> params = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, Object>();
    

            params.add("file", file);
    

            params.add(“a”, a);
            
    
            params.add(“b”, b);
    

            params.add(“c”, c);
            
    
            params.add(“d”, d);
    

            params.add(“e”, e);

            HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
    

            headers.set("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data");

            ResponseEntity<byte[]> response = restTemplate.exchange(uri, HttpMethod.POST, new HttpEntity<>(params, headers), byte[].class);

            return new ResponseEntity<>(response.getBody(), response.getStatusCode());
        }    
             
            
            
                




     private RestTemplate getMappedRestTemplate(){
        

                RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
        

                ObjectMapper newObjectMapper = new ObjectMapper();

                
        newObjectMapper.configure(SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS,false);
                
        
                newObjectMapper.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
        

                MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter mappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter=new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter();

                FormHttpMessageConverter formConvertor = new FormHttpMessageConverter();
                
        
                restTemplate.getMessageConverters().add(formConvertor);
        

                restTemplate.getMessageConverters().add(mappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter);

                restTemplate.getMessageConverters().add(new StringHttpMessageConverter());
                
        
                return restTemplate;
        
            }
    }

I am getting the following error:

Failed to write HTTP message: org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotWritableException: Could not write content: No serializer found for class java.io.FileDescriptor and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer (to avoid exception, disable SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS) ) (through reference chain: org.springframework.web.multipart.support.StandardMultipartFile["inputStream"]->java.io.FileInputStream["fd"]); nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: No serializer found for class java.io.FileDescriptor and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer (to avoid exception, disable SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS) ) (through reference chain: org.springframework.web.multipart.support.StandardMultipartFile["inputStream"]->java.io.FileInputStream["fd"])

Please, any help with be appreciated. I have been stuck on this all day.

Answer 1

I have gone for sending the params (including the pdf file as a byte stream i.e. byte[]) as json in the request body using the following method signature:

@RequestMapping(value = "/upload", method = RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.CREATED)
public @ResponseBody Long handleFileUpload(@Valid @RequestBody Invoice uploadedInvoice){
  ...
}