I've been trying to post a multipart form in Android for the last couple of days but am not able to send string data and a file altogether. I'm using the following code to upload my file and it works just fine. But when it comes to adding String data to my request it falls short.
Imagine I need to append profile_id=1234&text=HERE IS MY TEXT&global=0 to the request. How can I do that?
String fileName = photoPath;
HttpURLConnection conn = null;
DataOutputStream dos = null;
String lineEnd = "\r\n";
String twoHyphens = "--";
String boundary = "*****";
int bytesRead, bytesAvailable, bufferSize;
byte[] buffer;
int maxBufferSize = 1 * 1024 * 1024;
try {
// open a URL connection to the Servlet
FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(new File(photoPath));
URL url = new URL(Util.URL_POST_FEED);
// Open a HTTP connection to the URL
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setDoInput(true); // Allow Inputs
conn.setDoOutput(true); // Allow Outputs
conn.setUseCaches(false); // Don't use a Cached Copy
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Connection", "Keep-Alive");
conn.setRequestProperty("ENCTYPE", "multipart/form-data");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data;boundary=" + boundary);
conn.setRequestProperty("file", fileName);
dos = new DataOutputStream(conn.getOutputStream());
dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\";filename=\""
+ fileName + "\"" + lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);
// create a buffer of maximum size
bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
buffer = new byte[bufferSize];
// read file and write it into form...
bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
while (bytesRead > 0) {
dos.write(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
}
// send multipart form data necesssary after file data...
dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens + lineEnd);
// Responses from the server (code and message)
int serverResponseCode = conn.getResponseCode();
String serverResponseMessage = conn.getResponseMessage();
Log.i("uploadFile", "HTTP Response is : "
+ serverResponseMessage + ": " + serverResponseCode);
if (serverResponseCode == 200) {
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Toast.makeText(c, "File Upload Complete.",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}
InputStream stream = conn.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isReader = new InputStreamReader(stream);
//put output stream into a string
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isReader);
Log.d("Read", br.readLine());
//close the streams //
fileInputStream.close();
dos.flush();
dos.close();
} catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Toast.makeText(c, "MalformedURLException",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
Log.e("Upload file to server", "error: " + ex.getMessage(), ex);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
Toast.makeText(c, "Got Exception : see logcat ",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
Log.e("Upload file to server Exception", "Exception : "
+ e.getMessage(), e);
}
