philiprehberger-multipart

Multipart/form-data builder and parser with MIME type detection and streaming support

Requirements

• Ruby >= 3.1

Installation

Add to your Gemfile:

gem "philiprehberger-multipart"

Or install directly:

gem install philiprehberger-multipart

Usage

require "philiprehberger/multipart"

builder = Philiprehberger::Multipart.build do
  field :name, 'Alice'
  field :email, 'alice@example.com'
end

builder.to_s          # => multipart body string
builder.content_type  # => "multipart/form-data; boundary=..."

File Uploads

builder = Philiprehberger::Multipart.build do
  field :name, 'Alice'
  file :avatar, '/path/to/photo.png'
end

builder.to_s      # => multipart body with file data
builder.boundary  # => the boundary string

Streaming IO Objects

require "stringio"

io = StringIO.new("CSV,data,here")

builder = Philiprehberger::Multipart.build do
  file :upload, io, filename: 'data.csv', content_type: 'text/csv'
end

builder.to_s  # => multipart body streamed from IO

MIME Type Detection

# Auto-detected from filename when content_type is not provided
builder = Philiprehberger::Multipart.build do
  file :doc, '/path/to/report.pdf'       # => application/pdf
  file :img, '/path/to/photo.jpg'        # => image/jpeg
  file :data, '/path/to/config.json'     # => application/json
end

# Direct lookup
Philiprehberger::Multipart::MimeTypes.lookup('photo.jpg')   # => "image/jpeg"
Philiprehberger::Multipart::MimeTypes.lookup('unknown.xyz')  # => "application/octet-stream"

Parsing Multipart Bodies

body = "--boundary\r\n" \
       "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"field\"\r\n" \
       "\r\n" \
       "value\r\n" \
       "--boundary--\r\n"

parts = Philiprehberger::Multipart.parse(body, content_type: 'multipart/form-data; boundary=boundary')

parts.first.name          # => :field
parts.first.body          # => "value"
parts.first.file?         # => false

Streaming Output

builder = Philiprehberger::Multipart.build do
  field :name, 'Alice'
  file :avatar, '/path/to/photo.png'
end

# Stream directly to a file or socket without buffering the full body
File.open('body.dat', 'wb') { |f| builder.write_to(f) }

# Content-Length for HTTP headers
builder.content_length  # => 1234
builder.headers         # => { "Content-Type" => "multipart/form-data; boundary=...", "Content-Length" => "1234" }

Listing Field Names

builder = Philiprehberger::Multipart.build do |b|
  b.field("name", "Alice")
  b.file("avatar", "avatar.png")
end
builder.field_names # => ["name", "avatar"]

Post-Construction Part Lookup

builder = Philiprehberger::Multipart.build do
  field :name, 'Alice'
  file :avatar, '/path/to/photo.png'
end

# Look up a part by name (String or Symbol both work)
builder.part(:avatar)   # => #<Part name=:avatar ...>
builder.part('avatar')  # => same Part

# Tweak attributes after the fact — changes flow through to #to_s
builder.part('avatar').content_type = 'image/webp'

# Returns nil when no part matches
builder.part(:missing)  # => nil

Inspecting the Builder

builder = Philiprehberger::Multipart.build do
  field :name, 'Alice'
  file :avatar, '/path/to/photo.png'
end

builder.size  # => same as builder.content_length
builder.to_h
# => {
#      boundary: "----PhiliprehbergerMultipart...",
#      parts: [
#        { name: "name",   filename: nil,            content_type: nil,         size: 5 },
#        { name: "avatar", filename: "photo.png",    content_type: "image/png", size: 4096 }
#      ]
#    }

Custom Boundary

builder = Philiprehberger::Multipart.build(boundary: 'my-boundary') do
  field :key, 'value'
end

builder.content_type  # => "multipart/form-data; boundary=my-boundary"

API

Method	Description
Multipart.build(boundary: nil, &block)	Build a multipart body using the DSL
Multipart.parse(body, content_type:)	Parse an incoming multipart/form-data body
MimeTypes.lookup(filename)	Look up MIME type from a filename extension
Builder#field(name, value)	Add a text field
Builder#file(name, path_or_io, filename:, content_type:)	Add a file from path or IO object
Builder#part(name)	Look up the first part with a matching name (Symbol or String), or nil
Builder#field_names	Array of part names (as strings) in insertion order
Builder#merge(other)	Append parts from another Builder without re-encoding
Builder#to_s	Render the multipart body as a string
Builder#content_type	Content-Type header value with boundary
Builder#boundary	The multipart boundary string
Builder#write_to(io)	Stream the multipart body to an IO object
Builder#content_length	Byte size of the body for Content-Length headers
Builder#size	Alias for content_length
Builder#to_h	Structured { boundary:, parts: [...] } summary
Builder#headers	Hash with Content-Type and Content-Length headers
Part#name	The field name
Part#value	The part value / body content
Part#body	Alias for value
Part#filename	The original filename (nil for text fields)
Part#content_type	The MIME content type (nil for text fields)
Part#file?	Whether this part is a file upload
Part#text?	Whether this part is a plain text field (inverse of file?)
Part#size	Byte size of the part's value

Development

bundle install
bundle exec rspec
bundle exec rubocop

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License

MIT