[Form] Adding DataPart to manually set the Content-Type

ThomasLandauer · web-flow · commit aa84c7d4673f · 2025-05-13T18:49:03.000+02:00
Page: https://symfony.com/doc/6.4/http_client.html#uploading-data
diff --git a/http_client.rst b/http_client.rst
@@ -665,6 +665,15 @@ of the opened file, but you can configure both with the PHP streaming configurat
         $formData->getParts(); // Returns two instances of TextPart both
                                // with the name "array_field"
 
+Usually, the ``Content-Type`` of each form's part is detected automatically. However,
+you can override it by passing a ``DataPart``::
+
+    use Symfony\Component\Mime\Part\DataPart;
+
+    $formData = new FormDataPart([
+        ['json_data' => new DataPart(json_encode($json), null, 'application/json')]
+    ];
+
 By default, HttpClient streams the body contents when uploading them. This might
 not work with all servers, resulting in HTTP status code 411 ("Length Required")
 because there is no ``Content-Length`` header. The solution is to turn the body
