Introduction
The Local Binary Binaries Provider is a side project of the Binary Binaries Service. The main functionality of this service is to provide access to the content of a zip file via HTTP. In DDB there are cases where binaries associated to an ingest process are not provided on external servers but instead are delivered as zips together with the data to be ingested. To keep the workflow simple and to prevent handling special cases in the Binary Service, these zips can be uploaded to the Local Binary Provider and downloaded from there as if they were external resources.
Technology
The Local Binary Provider Binar iesProvider is implemented as a plain Java Servlet intendend to run on Tomcat 9 with Java 8.
Implementation Details
The application consist of to main classes. The UploadService class is an implementaion of HTTPServlet and handles the HTTP communication and saves the received archives to the filesystem. It delegates the work to the UploadService which unpacks the data synchronously.
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The actual delivery of the unpacked archive contents is handled by Tomcat because the Local Binary Binaries Provider simply unpacks the archive in the Tomcats web-root directory.
API Documentation
METHOD | URL | Description | ||
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| POST | / | Accepts a multipart/form-data request containing the archive file and its name. |
Deployments
There is a deployment in the development network automatically updated by Bamboo and one in the production network responsible for the production and qa-systems.
ToDos / Known issues
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