Possibility of uploading a document with a file stream instead of File object.

[cwmyers]

Hi team,

Firstly, thanks so much for your work on this SDK! Much appreciated.

I was wondering if it was possible to upload a document to onfido via the Java SDK without first creating a File object. The app I'm working on will receive documents from upstream and I would prefer not to save the file to disk first before sending it onto Onfido, mostly because I already have a ByteArray of the document in memory and also because the nature of the content is PII and I'd rather not have those files stored on the server (albeit temporarily).

Currently the uploadDocument methods require a java.io.File object. Would it be possible to have a version that took an InputStream instead? Or should I be using the REST API directly?

Many thanks,
Chris

[ciaran16]

Hi Chris, thanks for opening an issue

We use OpenAPI Generator to automatically generate this client library, and unfortunately it uses java.io.File for uploads. It looks like there is an issue to use InputStream instead but it's been open for quite a while (OpenAPITools/openapi-generator#994).

Using the API directly will probably be the easiest solution if you can use an HTTP request library that can construct multipart requests from an InputStream. Here's the relevant documentation: https://documentation.onfido.com/#upload-document

Thanks,
Ciaran