AWS API Gateway Encoding for multipart form-data

Question

My API gateway has a beanstalk reflected with passthrough, I have client that would send a multipart / form-data request to beanstalk directly. Now each time I request using API gateway, this is where the problem lies, as I am unable to open image. Is there a way to make a pure passthrough here?

Answer 1

API Gateway now supports binary payloads. Simply define "multipart/form-data" as a binary media type for your API and proxy the payload directly to a Lambda function. From there you can parse the body to get your file content. There should be libraries available to help parse the multipart body ('parse-multipart' in NodeJS for example).

Answer 2

Contact the AWS team your issue should be resolved in three days as they activate the API Gateway development team and solve the problem.