Post multipart request with Android SDK
Update April 29th 2014:
My answer is kind of old by now and I guess you rather want to use some kind of high level library such as Retrofit.
Based on this blog I came up with the following solution: http://blog.tacticalnuclearstrike.com/2010/01/using-multipartentity-in-android-applications/
You will have to download additional libraries to get MultipartEntity running!
1) Download httpcomponents-client-4.1.zip from http://james.apache.org/download.cgi#Apache_Mime4J and add apache-mime4j-0.6.1.jar to your project.
2) Download httpcomponents-client-4.1-bin.zip from http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi and add httpclient-4.1.jar, httpcore-4.1.jar and httpmime-4.1.jar to your project.
3) Use the example code below.
private DefaultHttpClient mHttpClient;
public ServerCommunication() {
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
params.setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.PROTOCOL_VERSION, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
mHttpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(params);
}
public void uploadUserPhoto(File image) {
try {
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("some url");
MultipartEntity multipartEntity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
multipartEntity.addPart("Title", new StringBody("Title"));
multipartEntity.addPart("Nick", new StringBody("Nick"));
multipartEntity.addPart("Email", new StringBody("Email"));
multipartEntity.addPart("Description", new StringBody(Settings.SHARE.TEXT));
multipartEntity.addPart("Image", new FileBody(image));
httppost.setEntity(multipartEntity);
mHttpClient.execute(httppost, new PhotoUploadResponseHandler());
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e(ServerCommunication.class.getName(), e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
}
}
private class PhotoUploadResponseHandler implements ResponseHandler<Object> {
@Override
public Object handleResponse(HttpResponse response)
throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
HttpEntity r_entity = response.getEntity();
String responseString = EntityUtils.toString(r_entity);
Log.d("UPLOAD", responseString);
return null;
}
}
As MultiPartEntity is deprecated. So here is the new way to do it! And you only need httpcore.jar(latest) and httpmime.jar(latest) download them from Apache site.
try
{
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(URL);
MultipartEntityBuilder entityBuilder = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();
entityBuilder.setMode(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
entityBuilder.addTextBody(USER_ID, userId);
entityBuilder.addTextBody(NAME, name);
entityBuilder.addTextBody(TYPE, type);
entityBuilder.addTextBody(COMMENT, comment);
entityBuilder.addTextBody(LATITUDE, String.valueOf(User.Latitude));
entityBuilder.addTextBody(LONGITUDE, String.valueOf(User.Longitude));
if(file != null)
{
entityBuilder.addBinaryBody(IMAGE, file);
}
HttpEntity entity = entityBuilder.build();
post.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
HttpEntity httpEntity = response.getEntity();
result = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);
Log.v("result", result);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
Here is the LIGHT WEIGHTED 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"]);
?>