multipart_form 0.1.0 · OCaml Package

Multipart-form.

The MIME type multipart/form-data is used to express values submitted through a <form>. This module helps the user to extract these values from an input.

module Field_name : sig ... end

module Content_type : sig ... end

module Content_encoding : sig ... end

module Content_disposition : sig ... end

module Field : sig ... end

module Header : sig ... end

type 'id emitters = Header.t -> (string option -> unit) * 'id

Type of emitters.

An emitters is able to produce from the given header a pusher which is able to save contents and a unique ID to be able to get the content furthermore.

type 'a elt = {

header : Header.t;
body : 'a;

}

Type of a simple element.

An element is a part in sense of the multipart/form-data format. A part can contains multiple parts. It has systematically a Header.t.

type 'a t =

| Leaf of 'a elt
| Multipart of 'a t option list elt

Type of multipart/form-data contents.

a Leaf is a content with a simple header.
a Multipart is a list of possibly empty (option) sub-elements - indeed, we can have a multipart inside a multipart.

val parser : emitters:'id emitters -> Content_type.t -> 'id t Angstrom.t

parser ~emitters content_type creates an angstrom's parser which can process a multipart/form-data input. For each Leaf, the parser calls emitters to be able to save contents and get a reference of it.

A simple use of it is to generate an unique ID and associate it to a Buffer.t such as:

let gen = let v = ref (-1) in fun () -> incr v ; !v in
let tbl = Hashtbl.create 0x10 in
let emitters () =
  let idx = gen () in
  let buf = Buffer.create 0x100 in
  (function None -> ()
          | Some str -> Buffer.add_string buf str), idx in
parser ~emitters content_type

With such style, a mapping exists between the returned value t and tbl. At the end, the user is able to extract contents with these values.

In some contexts, something else such as an Lwt_stream.t/asynchronous stream can be used instead a Buffer.t.

type 'a stream = unit -> 'a option

val of_stream : 
  string stream ->
  Content_type.t ->
  (int t * (int * string) list, [> `Msg of string ]) result

of_stream stream content_type returns, if it succeeds, a value t with an associative list of unique ID and contents.

val of_string : 
  string ->
  Content_type.t ->
  (int t * (int * string) list, [> `Msg of string ]) result

of_string str content_type returns, if it succeeds, a value t with an associative list of unique ID and contents.

package multipart_form

Multipart-form.