REST API Put large data

Question

I have a REST API implemented in microsoft Web API.
In my client i use HttpRequestMessage and HttpResponseMessage.
When i am sending a small class, I serialize it to JSON and then send it.
Soon, my class becomes bigger, and I need to JSON the class, zip it (in memory) and send to server. I can no longer use the same technique, I need to send the zip in chunks.

What is the proper way to achieve it ? I have read this post Posting a File and Associated Data to a RESTful WebService preferably as JSON

Need some good articles, I dont know where to start.

Answer 1

On the client side this should work pretty much out of the box...

        var httpClient = new HttpClient();

        httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.TransferEncodingChunked = true;

        var content = new CompressedContent(new StreamContent(new FileStream("c:\\big-json-file.json",FileMode.Open)),"UTF8");

        var response = httpClient.PostAsync("http://example.org/", content).Result;

You can find an implementation of CompressedContent in WebApiContrib . If you are using earlier than .net 4.5 the request will be buffered client side before sending. Unfortunately the underlying HttpWebRequest doesn't support buffered streaming until .net 4.5