# \[Gatling 2\] Fileuploads **URL:** \ **Category:** Gatling (Open-Source)\ **Created:** [June 21, 2013, 8:39am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453 "2013-06-21T08:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Heim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Andreas\_Heim](https://community.gatling.io/u/Andreas_Heim)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 8:39am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/1 "2013-06-21T08:39:10Z")
Hi guys, I’m struggeling a bit with a simple multipart fileupload. I’ve tried to add a .rawBodyPart() on the post request, but it seems like this is not the thing I am looking for. To clarify, I want to post to an URL, and attach a file from disk to a param (“fileUpload”). This was done via the .upload-method in gatling 1.5, but I cannot seem to find the corresponding way to do it in gatling 2. Thanks, Andreas ---
**Author:** ![Excilys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8797f3/32.png) [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 9:26am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/2 "2013-06-21T09:26:02Z")
We’re completely refactoring multipart support v2 and will have something stable for 2.0.0-M3. What you have to use is rawFileBodyPart There’s a unofficial timestamped version in Excilys’ Nexus named 2.0.0.20130606 that you can try: [http://repository.excilys.com/content/repositories/releases](http://repository.excilys.com/content/repositories/releases)/io/gatling/highcharts/gatling-charts-highcharts/2.0.0.20130605/gatling-charts-highcharts-2.0.0.20130605-bundle.zip Cheers, Stéphane ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Heim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Andreas\_Heim](https://community.gatling.io/u/Andreas_Heim)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 9:31am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/3 "2013-06-21T09:31:58Z")
Ok, So basically we’ll have to construct the request “by hand”? ---
**Author:** ![Excilys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8797f3/32.png) [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 9:43am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/4 "2013-06-21T09:43:36Z")
What do you mean, by hand? ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Heim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Andreas\_Heim](https://community.gatling.io/u/Andreas_Heim)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 10:28am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/5 "2013-06-21T10:28:39Z")
Not very well formulated by me I’m afraid. I’ll try to explain with an example: When uploading a file through a browser, the headers look something like this: Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryIEYgyLofyZbvhndP And the file-part look like this: ------WebKitFormBoundaryIEYgyLofyZbvhndP Content-Disposition: form-data; name=“fileInput”; filename=“pdf-file.pdf” Content-Type: application/pdf When I try with .rawFileBodyPart(“fileInput”, “pdf-file.pdf”, “application/pdf”, “upload”) the headers look good, but the file part looks like this: –ZFkSCQZaqPkGyCnNUZndTiF5b9Y9miM4v Content-Type: application/pdf; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-ID: upload kl. 11:43:36 UTC+2 fredag 21. juni 2013 skrev Stéphane Landelle følgende: ---
**Author:** ![Excilys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8797f3/32.png) [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 10:42am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/6 "2013-06-21T10:42:09Z")
So: - Content-Disposition is not generated, I’ll have to check why - Regarding Content-ID, just dont pass one and you won’t get one - Regarding Content-Type, there’s a charset=utf-8 that shouldn’t probably be there Does this cause your upload not to work? ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Heim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Andreas\_Heim](https://community.gatling.io/u/Andreas_Heim)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 10:46am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/7 "2013-06-21T10:46:50Z")
It is the missing "name=“fileInput”; " that causes the upload to fail, but that is probably a part of the content disposition issue? The back-end should be fairly agnostic to content type and charset (at least in this part of the chain). kl. 12:42:09 UTC+2 fredag 21. juni 2013 skrev Stéphane Landelle følgende: ---
**Author:** ![Excilys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8797f3/32.png) [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 10:52am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/8 "2013-06-21T10:52:48Z")
OK Just one last question: which version do you use? 2.0.0-M2 or 2.0.0.20130605? ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Heim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Andreas\_Heim](https://community.gatling.io/u/Andreas_Heim)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/9 "2013-06-21T12:51:56Z")
Using the timestamped one. ---
**Author:** ![Excilys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8797f3/32.png) [@Excilys](https://community.gatling.io/u/Excilys)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/10 "2013-06-24T10:32:20Z")
I’ve refactored Body and BodyParts APIs so that one gets full control over parts properties: [https://github.com/excilys/gatling/issues/1238](https://github.com/excilys/gatling/issues/1238) I’ll produce a new timestamp ASAP, and we’ll probably release 2.0.0-M3 within a week from now, once we’ll have properly tested it. Cheers, Stéphane ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Heim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Andreas\_Heim](https://community.gatling.io/u/Andreas_Heim)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2013, 9:01am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/gatling-2-fileuploads/453/11 "2013-06-25T09:01:35Z")
Again, thanks a million Stéphane! I’m going to test this asap! Andreas kl. 12:32:20 UTC+2 mandag 24. juni 2013 skrev Stéphane Landelle følgende: