In our current project we have to consume a REST web service that provides data as a multipart document, e.g. a list of videos (or video metadata) where each video is a single part. While it’s common to submit or handle multipart requests (e.g. multipart/form-data), the multipart content type is not widely used for http responses. In consequence, the support of http clients for multipart responses is not as good as for requests. The Play Frameworks WS client for example does not directly support responses of type multipart/*.