create drupal_http_request to REST file resource

This seems to work, should anyone ever wonder....

Some php code to generate the JSON :

function buildFile($filePath)

{

$data = array(

'file' => array(

'file' => base64_encode(file_get_contents($filePath)),

'filepath' => 'sites/default/files/images/'.$filePath,

'filename' => $filePath,

'filesize' => filesize($filePath),

'timestamp' => time()

)

);

$returnData = json_encode($data);

return $returnData;

}

And for the actual request, the following function could accept the data that was returned from the buildFile function. The function uses durpal_http_request, but curl could be used instead.

function restFileRequest($url, $op, $data)

{

$request_headers = array("content-type" => "application/json");

$request = drupal_http_request($url.$op, $request_headers, 'POST', $data);

if ($request->error)

print ("error doing http request");

else

return $request->data;

}