Method: HTTPClient#post_content

Defined in:

lib/httpclient.rb

#post_content(uri, *args, &block) ⇒ Object

Posts a content.

uri

a String or an URI object which represents an URL of web resource.

body

a Hash or an Array of body part. e.g.

{ "a" => "b" } => 'a=b'

Give an array to pass multiple value like

[["a", "b"], ["a", "c"]] => 'a=b&a=c'

When you pass a File as a value, it will be posted as a multipart/form-data. e.g.

{ 'upload' => file }

You can also send custom multipart by passing an array of hashes. Each part must have a :content attribute which can be a file, all other keys will become headers.

[{ 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain', :content => "some text" },
 { 'Content-Type' => 'video/mp4', :content => File.new('video.mp4') }]
=> <Two parts with custom Content-Type header>

header

a Hash or an Array of extra headers. e.g.

{ 'Accept' => '*/*' }

or

[['Accept', 'image/jpeg'], ['Accept', 'image/png']].

&block

Give a block to get chunked message-body of response like

post_content(uri) { |chunked_body| ... }.

Size of each chunk may not be the same.

post_content follows HTTP redirect status (see HTTP::Status.redirect?) internally and try to post the content to redirected URL. See redirect_uri_callback= how HTTP redirection is handled.

If you need to get full HTTP response including HTTP status and headers, use post method.

# File 'lib/httpclient.rb', line 610

def post_content(uri, *args, &block)
  body, header = keyword_argument(args, :body, :header)
  follow_redirect(:post, uri, nil, body, header || {}, &block).content
end