Spring boot large file upload and download support - spring-boot

Question

I have a spring boot web application which will handle large file (max size of 5g) upload and then save it to s3. The request and response may last for a long time.
So what is the best practice to handle the upload and download like this? How to make a good performance to prevent my server down when download or upload large files?

Answer 1

you can use multipart/form-data
#RequestMapping(value = "/agency/create", method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes = "multipart/form-data")
public ResponseEntity<List<String>> createAgency(
#RequestParam(value = "username", required = true) String username,
#RequestParam(value = "pic1", required = true)MultipartFile pic1File,
MultipartHttpServletRequest request, ModelAndView modelAndView) {
List<String> requestKeys=new ArrayList<String>();
List<String> originalFileName=new ArrayList<String>();
request.getFileNames().forEachRemaining(requestKeys::add);
for(String multipartFile:requestKeys) {
originalFileName.add(request.getFile(multipartFile).getOriginalFilename());
}
storageService.store(pic1File);
return new ResponseEntity<List<String>>(originalFileName, HttpStatus.CREATED);
}

Answer 2

Posting in case someone finds this useful in the future. This works with a REST controller as of Spring Boot 2.4.2.
Class annotations:
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/api")
Method declaration:
#RequestMapping(path = "/file-upload/{depot}/{fileName}", method = {RequestMethod.POST, RequestMethod.PUT})
public ResponseEntity<String> fileUpload(
#PathVariable(name = "depot") String depot,
#PathVariable(name = "fileName") String fileName,
InputStream inputStream,
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
The above is the Spring Boot configuration for a REST Controller that worked for me for large file upload. The key was adding InputStream inputStream directly.