How do I upload a file with metadata using a REST web service?

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I have a REST web service that currently exposes this URL:

http://server/data/media

where users can POST the following JSON:

{
    "Name": "Test",
    "Latitude": 12.59817,
    "Longitude": 52.12873
}

in order to create a new Media metadata.

Now I need the ability to upload a file at the same time as the media metadata. What’s the best way of going about this? I could introduce a new property called file and base64 encode the file, but I was wondering if there was a better way.

There’s also using multipart/form-data like what a HTML form would send over, but I’m using a REST web service and I want to stick to using JSON if at all possible.

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