On Sep 15, 2010, at 6:39 PM, jameskpublic wrote:
>
> I have a multi-part message with many of the parts being binary data.
> I will eventually flush the the binary data to a database, but I'm
> concerned
> about the memory footprint of the request.
> Do large multi-part mime parts data get cached to disk, and if so,
> does it
> automatically get cleaned up?
Yes. Once the request goes out of scope any body parts temporarily
cached to disk will be removed.
> If it's cached to disk, does the framework support multiple reads of
> the
> data?
> I understand that i can get a reference to an InputStream which will
> allow
> me to read it once, but what if I want to read it twice?
>
It should work, but only when the request is in scope.
Jersey's MIME multipart support uses a library called MIMEPull that
supports caching and reading parts more than once.
Paul.