On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:02:35AM -0800, Sunny Khatri wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> Let me clarify the situation a bit more,
> 
> What we have is a libcurl client talking and sending data to our server 
> (Jetty/
> SOLR). Now as soon as a chunk is posted via curl_easy_perform, SOLR tries to
> parse it and errors out in case the data was not a valid csv (not containing
> all the required expected csv fields). What we want is Server to wait for the
>  next chunk which would give the remaining expected fields and then process
> that csv. 

So, the server is processing data as though it's all been received before it's
actually all available? That's definitely a server bug. Fix the server instead
of trying to hack around the problem client-side!

> For example, we wish to send:   1,value1,value2,value3
> chunk1: 1,value1
> chunk2: value2,value3
> 
> I hope this makes things more clear. 
> 
> Thanks
> Sunny
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Fabian Frank <fabian.frank...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Sunny Khatri <sunny.k...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>         I'm trying to use libcurl to stream data to the server. However, the
>         problem is that as soon as server receives  a chunk 
> (cur_easy_perform),
>         it tries to process that data, even though it's partial, which is
>         expected given chunked encoding is used which sets the the
>         content-length for that particular chunk.
> 
>     What do you mean by "tries to process the data"? Do you control the 
> server?
>     What kind of server/API are you talking to?
>      
> 
>         Is there anything that needs to be set in the header to allow 
> streaming
>         of data. Ideally we want data to be processed at server only when we
>         have send all the required data. Setting content-length is not an
>         option as we don't know in advance what the total size of the data
>         would be.
> 
>     Is this a binary upload? If so, you might use a PUT request.
>      
>     Regards,
>     Fabian
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