Cloudant Document Creation Error - 413 (Request Entity Too Large)

[chintankshah]

Hi,

I've created a Bluemix App and using cloudantNoSQLDB service with a lite plan. Now one of my document is in excess of 5 mb (as it contains a few base64 encoded data of images) and when I try to create the doc, I get this 413 - Request Entity Too Large error.

Is it the type of plan I have that's restricting me to create documents of this big size? Please help.

[ricellis]

@chintankshah
Yes, as per #317 (comment) I believe the Cloudant service on Bluemix is limited to 1 MB in a single request. You may be able to workaround the limit by uploading your document and attachments in separate requests.
For example:

Response response = db.save(myDocWithNoAttachments);
response = db.saveAttachment(att1InputStream, "myPic.jpeg", "image/jpeg", response.getId(), response.getRev());
response = db.saveAttachment(att2InputStream, "myOtherPic.jpeg", "image/jpeg", response.getId(), response.getRev());
// etc

If you want to discuss the actual plan limits further I suggest contacting Bluemix or Cloudant support as it is out of scope of the java-cloudant client.

[ricellis]

Closing as answered, please re-open or open a new issue if there are additional questions.