Add The Ability To Specify A Different MIME Type (#14)

There are many different mime types for multipart
requests and this change provides the option to
specify a different one.

If a multipart mime type is not specified the
middleware will default to multipart/form-data.

This change also changes the structure of the
middleware a bit. It changes the parent from
UrlEncoded to inherit from Middleware directly
instead. This is because we were overriding most
of the UrlEncoded methods anyway so bringing last
remaining methods over and removing that link in
the dependency chain seemed to make sense.

Another structural code change was to move the
methods that didn't need to be public under the
private keyword. The intent of this was to help
future developers know what they can change
without worrying breaking any external
dependencies.

README.md

@@ -51,6 +51,18 @@ conn = Faraday.new(...) do |f|
 end
 ```
 
+If you need to [specify a different content type for the multipart
+request](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#multipart),
+you can do so by providing the `content_type` option but it must start with
+`multipart/`
+otherwise it will default to `multipart/form-data`:
+
+```ruby
+conn = Faraday.new(...) do |f|
+  f.request :multipart, content_type: 'multipart/mixed'
+  # ...
+end
+```
 
 Payload can be a mix of POST data and multipart values.
 

lib/faraday/multipart/middleware.rb

@@ -5,11 +5,10 @@
 module Faraday
   module Multipart
     # Middleware for supporting multi-part requests.
-    class Middleware < Faraday::Request::UrlEncoded
+    class Middleware < Faraday::Middleware
+      CONTENT_TYPE = 'Content-Type'
       DEFAULT_BOUNDARY_PREFIX = '-----------RubyMultipartPost'
 
-      self.mime_type = 'multipart/form-data'
-
       def initialize(app = nil, options = {})
         super(app)
         @options = options
@@ -28,15 +27,37 @@ def call(env)
         @app.call env
       end
 
+      private
+
+      # @param env [Faraday::Env]
+      # @yield [request_body] Body of the request
+      def match_content_type(env)
+        return unless process_request?(env)
+
+        env.request_headers[CONTENT_TYPE] ||= mime_type
+        return if env.body.respond_to?(:to_str) || env.body.respond_to?(:read)
+
+        yield(env.body)
+      end
+
       # @param env [Faraday::Env]
       def process_request?(env)
         type = request_type(env)
         env.body.respond_to?(:each_key) && !env.body.empty? && (
           (type.empty? && has_multipart?(env.body)) ||
-            (type == self.class.mime_type)
+            (type == mime_type)
         )
       end
 
+      # @param env [Faraday::Env]
+      #
+      # @return [String]
+      def request_type(env)
+        type = env.request_headers[CONTENT_TYPE].to_s
+        type = type.split(';', 2).first if type.index(';')
+        type
+      end
+
       # Returns true if obj is an enumerable with values that are multipart.
       #
       # @param obj [Object]
@@ -97,6 +118,17 @@ def process_params(params, prefix = nil, pieces = nil, &block)
           end
         end
       end
+
+      # Determines and provides the multipart mime type for the request.
+      #
+      # @return [String] the multipart mime type
+      def mime_type
+        @mime_type ||= if @options[:content_type].to_s.match?(%r{\Amultipart/.+})
+                         @options[:content_type].to_s
+                       else
+                         'multipart/form-data'
+                       end
+      end
     end
   end
 end

spec/faraday/multipart/middleware_spec.rb

@@ -315,4 +315,49 @@
       expect(response.body).not_to include('name="b[]"')
     end
   end
+
+  context 'when passing content_type option' do
+    let(:payload) do
+      {
+        xml: Faraday::Multipart::ParamPart.new('<xml><value /></xml>', 'text/xml'),
+        io: Faraday::Multipart::FilePart.new(StringIO.new('io-content'), 'application/octet-stream')
+      }
+    end
+
+    context 'when a multipart mime type is provided' do
+      let(:options) { { content_type: 'multipart/mixed' } }
+
+      it_behaves_like 'a multipart request'
+
+      it 'uses the provided mime type' do
+        response = conn.post('/echo', payload)
+
+        expect(response.headers['Content-Type']).to start_with('multipart/mixed')
+      end
+    end
+
+    context 'when a non-multipart mime type is provided' do
+      let(:options) { { content_type: 'application/json' } }
+
+      it_behaves_like 'a multipart request'
+
+      it 'uses the default mime type' do
+        response = conn.post('/echo', payload)
+
+        expect(response.headers['Content-Type']).to start_with('multipart/form-data')
+      end
+    end
+
+    context 'when no multipart mime type is provided' do
+      let(:options) { {} }
+
+      it_behaves_like 'a multipart request'
+
+      it 'uses the default mime type' do
+        response = conn.post('/echo', payload)
+
+        expect(response.headers['Content-Type']).to start_with('multipart/form-data')
+      end
+    end
+  end
 end