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Implementing the Publication

Order of the HTTP parts​

The publication method needs to support any HTTP part order. One cannot expect for instance that the JSON part messageToPublish be the first HTTP part to be received. There are two reason for this:

  • Several HTTP client do not give control on the order of the HTTP parts

  • In order to support end to end streaming for the Document Sender.

    The messageToPublish can contain SHA-256 digests of the published documents. This means that the Document Sender might need to compute it. Computation of the digest requires to fully read the documents streams.

Note: The filename can contain encoded character. The filename must be decoded if it contains characters outside of the ISO-8859-1 charset (so french accents etc.).

In an end to end scenarios, the digest computation must occur during HTTP transfer to the Document Provider. The messageToPublish digests values cannot be known to the Document Sender before the Documents are fully sent to the Document Provider and the messageToPublish part can only be specified as last part of the exchange.