Data Services - uber type for body

[joecrean]

So we can address your issue, please include the following:

Version of MarkLogic Java Client API

Java client 4.2.0 ,

Version of MarkLogic Server

ML 9-0-9.1

See admin gui on port 8001 or run xdmp:version() in Query Console - port 8000)

Java version

JDK 11

I would like to design a Data Service which can process a file of any type into ML. THe file will be passed in the request body. However it doesn't look like there is an uber type - i am required to create type specific interfaces and generate the corresponding java proxies..

Is there any generic way to do this?

[ehennum]

Salutations, Mr Crean. You're right, Data Services doesn't have a format-agnostic document type at present.

It requires a server enhancement. There's is an RFE, which is an active candidate for 10.0-7

In the interim, one workaround is to use the textDocument or binaryDocument type and unquote the document values in the data service endpoint.

Another possibility is to use a data service with one of the pre-defined IO signatures and specify the document type during construction -- see:

https://github.com/marklogic/java-client-api/wiki/Data-Services-for-IO

Note: IO Data Services first showed up in 5.1.0 and only became fully baked in 5.3.0 -- which executes against 10.0-6

[joecrean]

aaaahhh @ehennum great stuff thanks..
for the moment I only have the quoting workaround available to me .. i will give that a whirl.
thanks as always for the great help. If you want to close the ticket that is fine.. i will add a comment to report on how it all went.

[llinggit]

There is another issue tracking this anyDocument datatype work, which is #1296. Closing this one.