[aerogear-dev] Multipart client thoughts

First a few caveats: 1. There is no server side implementation / spec yet so the client "solution" should be rather pluggable. 2. I've only looked at iOS as a sanity check on my ideas. I've been working on some PoC's for multipart on Android. After a few false starts here is the idea I've come up with to support multipart/from-data content types (ie uploading files). Add a new configuration option to a Pipe's configuration: a request builder. The request builder will be a callback/closure/class that consumes the data arguments from a pipes save request and produces the body of the request. In Android it can be an interface which is implemented and in iOS it can be a block which is passed to AFHttpClient's multipartFormRequestWithMethod. I'm not sure what the implications to JavaScript would be. Specifically in Android the gson specific request code will be refactored into a GSONRequestBuilder, and we will write (and define the behavior of) a MultipartRequestBuilder. Also PipeConfig.setGsonBuilder will become deprecated (a good move IMHO). wdyt? Summers