How to upload multipart form data and image to server in android?
If like me you were struggling with multipart upload. Here's a solution using 95% of code from this Android snippet.
public String multipartRequest(String urlTo, Map<String, String> parmas, String filepath, String filefield, String fileMimeType) throws CustomException {
HttpURLConnection connection = null;
DataOutputStream outputStream = null;
InputStream inputStream = null;
String twoHyphens = "--";
String boundary = "*****" + Long.toString(System.currentTimeMillis()) + "*****";
String lineEnd = "\r\n";
String result = "";
int bytesRead, bytesAvailable, bufferSize;
byte[] buffer;
int maxBufferSize = 1 * 1024 * 1024;
String[] q = filepath.split("/");
int idx = q.length - 1;
try {
File file = new File(filepath);
FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
URL url = new URL(urlTo);
connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setUseCaches(false);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Connection", "Keep-Alive");
connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Android Multipart HTTP Client 1.0");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary);
outputStream = new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
outputStream.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd);
outputStream.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + filefield + "\"; filename=\"" + q[idx] + "\"" + lineEnd);
outputStream.writeBytes("Content-Type: " + fileMimeType + lineEnd);
outputStream.writeBytes("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary" + lineEnd);
outputStream.writeBytes(lineEnd);
bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
buffer = new byte[bufferSize];
bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
while (bytesRead > 0) {
outputStream.write(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
}
outputStream.writeBytes(lineEnd);
// Upload POST Data
Iterator<String> keys = parmas.keySet().iterator();
while (keys.hasNext()) {
String key = keys.next();
String value = parmas.get(key);
outputStream.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd);
outputStream.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + key + "\"" + lineEnd);
outputStream.writeBytes("Content-Type: text/plain" + lineEnd);
outputStream.writeBytes(lineEnd);
outputStream.writeBytes(value);
outputStream.writeBytes(lineEnd);
}
outputStream.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens + lineEnd);
if (200 != connection.getResponseCode()) {
throw new CustomException("Failed to upload code:" + connection.getResponseCode() + " " + connection.getResponseMessage());
}
inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
result = this.convertStreamToString(inputStream);
fileInputStream.close();
inputStream.close();
outputStream.flush();
outputStream.close();
return result;
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error(e);
throw new CustomException(e);
}
}
private String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try {
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
Calling code:
//setup params
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>(2);
params.put("foo", hash);
params.put("bar", caption);
String result = multipartRequest(URL_UPLOAD_VIDEO, params, pathToVideoFile, "video", "video/mp4");
//next parse result string
Here is the solution which worked for me with no external HTTPCore and such libs. I was facing issue of 64K methods so have no option left to avoid HTTPCore libraries
import java.util.List;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
/**
* This utility class provides an abstraction layer for sending multipart HTTP
* POST requests to a web server.
*
* @author www.codejava.net
*/
public class MultipartUtility {
private final String boundary;
private static final String LINE_FEED = "\r\n";
private HttpURLConnection httpConn;
private String charset;
private OutputStream outputStream;
private PrintWriter writer;
/**
* This constructor initializes a new HTTP POST request with content type
* is set to multipart/form-data
*
* @param requestURL
* @param charset
* @throws IOException
*/
public MultipartUtility(String requestURL, String charset)
throws IOException {
this.charset = charset;
// creates a unique boundary based on time stamp
boundary = "===" + System.currentTimeMillis() + "===";
URL url = new URL(requestURL);
httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpConn.setUseCaches(false);
httpConn.setDoOutput(true); // indicates POST method
httpConn.setDoInput(true);
httpConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary);
httpConn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "CodeJava Agent");
httpConn.setRequestProperty("Test", "Bonjour");
outputStream = httpConn.getOutputStream();
writer = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, charset),
true);
}
/**
* Adds a form field to the request
*
* @param name field name
* @param value field value
*/
public void addFormField(String name, String value) {
writer.append("--" + boundary).append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + name + "\"")
.append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=" + charset).append(
LINE_FEED);
writer.append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append(value).append(LINE_FEED);
writer.flush();
}
/**
* Adds a upload file section to the request
*
* @param fieldName name attribute in <input type="file" name="..." />
* @param uploadFile a File to be uploaded
* @throws IOException
*/
public void addFilePart(String fieldName, File uploadFile)
throws IOException {
String fileName = uploadFile.getName();
writer.append("--" + boundary).append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append(
"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + fieldName
+ "\"; filename=\"" + fileName + "\"")
.append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append(
"Content-Type: "
+ URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromName(fileName))
.append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary").append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append(LINE_FEED);
writer.flush();
FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(uploadFile);
byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
int bytesRead = -1;
while ((bytesRead = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
outputStream.flush();
inputStream.close();
writer.append(LINE_FEED);
writer.flush();
}
/**
* Adds a header field to the request.
*
* @param name - name of the header field
* @param value - value of the header field
*/
public void addHeaderField(String name, String value) {
writer.append(name + ": " + value).append(LINE_FEED);
writer.flush();
}
/**
* Completes the request and receives response from the server.
*
* @return a list of Strings as response in case the server returned
* status OK, otherwise an exception is thrown.
* @throws IOException
*/
public List<String> finish() throws IOException {
List<String> response = new ArrayList<String>();
writer.append(LINE_FEED).flush();
writer.append("--" + boundary + "--").append(LINE_FEED);
writer.close();
// checks server's status code first
int status = httpConn.getResponseCode();
if (status == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
httpConn.getInputStream()));
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
response.add(line);
}
reader.close();
httpConn.disconnect();
} else {
throw new IOException("Server returned non-OK status: " + status);
}
return response;
}
}
USAGE
private void uploadMedia() {
try {
String charset = "UTF-8";
File uploadFile1 = new File("/sdcard/myvideo.mp4");
String requestURL = Data.BASE_URL+Data.URL_UPLOAD_REACTION_TEST;
MultipartUtility multipart = new MultipartUtility(requestURL, charset);
// multipart.addHeaderField("User-Agent", "CodeJava");
// multipart.addHeaderField("Test-Header", "Header-Value");
multipart.addFormField("friend_id", "Cool Pictures");
multipart.addFormField("userid", "Java,upload,Spring");
multipart.addFilePart("uploadedfile", uploadFile1);
List<String> response = multipart.finish();
Log.v("rht", "SERVER REPLIED:");
for (String line : response) {
Log.v("rht", "Line : "+line);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
PHP Code to accept upload
<?php
$friend_id = $_REQUEST['friend_id'];
$userid = $_REQUEST['userid'];
echo 'friend_id : '.$friend_id. ' userid '.$userid;
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], "./uploads/".$_FILES["uploadedfile"]["name"]);
?>
I know I am late for posting this answer but still if someone wants to upload multiple images to the server in android
String uploadMultipleFiles(Api api, HashMap<String, ArrayList<File>> fileListMap)
throws IOException {
String responseS;
OkHttpClient timeOut = getOkHttpClient(api.getTimeOut());
MultipartBody.Builder multipartBuilder = new MultipartBody.Builder()
.setType(MultipartBody.FORM);
int j = 0;
ArrayList<File> fileList;
for (Map.Entry<String, ArrayList<File>> entry : fileListMap.entrySet()) {
String key = entry.getKey();
fileList = entry.getValue();
multipartBuilder.addFormDataPart("data[" + j + "].name", key);
if (fileList != null) {
for (int i = 0; i < fileList.size(); i++) {
File fileListRequest = fileList.get(i);
if (fileListRequest.exists()) {
String ext = CommonUtils.getExtension(fileListRequest.getName());
/* Changing Media Type whether JPEG or PNG **/
final MediaType MEDIA_TYPE = ext.endsWith("png") ? MEDIA_TYPE_PNG :
ext.endsWith("jpg") ? MEDIA_TYPE_JPG : MEDIA_TYPE_JPEG;
multipartBuilder.addFormDataPart("data[" + j + "].files[" + i + "]",
fileListRequest.getName(),
RequestBody.create(MEDIA_TYPE, fileListRequest));
}
}
}
j++;
}
RequestBody requestBody = multipartBuilder.build();
Request.Builder requestBuilder = new Request.Builder()
.url(Objects.requireNonNull(api.getUrl()))
.post(requestBody);
buildHeaders(requestBuilder);
Response response = timeOut.newCall(requestBuilder.build()).execute();
responseS = response.body().string();
Log.i(api.getName().name(), responseS);
return responseS;
}
Above code is for uploading multiple images to the server and for a single image you need to add only a single line below
multipartBuilder.addFormDataPart("fileName",fileListRequest.getName(),RequestBody create(MEDIA_TYPE,fileListRequest));