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Setting up multipart messages using the DefaultHttpClient

Postby coding_android » Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:14 pm

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  1. import org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntity;
  2. import org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.FileBody;
  3. import org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.StringBody;
  4. import java.io.File;
  5. import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
  6.  
  7. ...
  8.  
  9. MultipartEntity multipart = new MultipartEntity();
  10. File file = new File("/filepath");  // File with some location (filepath)
  11. Charset chars = Charset.forName("UTF-8"); // Setting up the encoding
  12. FileBody fileB = new FileBody(file); // Create a new FileBody with the above mentioned file
  13. multipart.addPart("data", fileB); // Add the part to my MultipartEntity. "data" is parameter name for the file
  14. StringBody stringB;  // Now lets add some extra information in a StringBody
  15.         try {
  16.                 stringB = new StringBody("I am the caption of the file",chars);  // Adding the content to the StringBody and setting up the encoding
  17.                 multipart.addPart("caption", stringB); // Add the part to my MultipartEntity
  18.                 } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
  19.                         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
  20.                         e.printStackTrace();
  21.                 }
  22.                
  23. HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url); // Setting up a HTTP Post method with the target url
  24. post.setEntity(multiPartEntity); // Setting the multipart Entity to the post method
  25. HttpResponse resp = client.execute(post);  // Using some HttpClient (I'm using DefaultHttpClient) to execute the post method and receive the response
  26.  
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In order to use this snippet you have to import the following libraries:

http://james.apache.org/mime4j/index.html - Mime4j
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-cli ... index.html - HttpMime
http://commons.apache.org/io/ - Commons IO

SDK Version compatible: 0.9, 1.0
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Postby thomasmckay » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:13 pm

This is a very useful start for me but I'm stuck still.

Given a byte[] how would I include it in the MultipartEntity?
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Postby thomasmckay » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:27 pm

ByteArrayInputStream byteStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(label);
InputStreamBody is = new InputStreamBody(byteStream, "myimage");
entity.addPart("image", is);

Something along those lines?
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Postby thomasmckay » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:23 pm

Though it took me far too long to solve this, here's what I found.

First, the MultipartEntity works fine for StringBody but fails with any streaming types. When a streaming type body is added (like InputStreamBody) the getContentLength() method will return -1. This, in my case, causes the server side code to choke. My solution was to create a new ByteBody for the Android-created jpeg.

I hope this is helpful to someone flailing away like I was.

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  2.     public class ByteBody extends AbstractBody implements BinaryBody, ContentBody {
  3.  
  4.  
  5.  
  6.         private final byte[] mContent;
  7.  
  8.    
  9.  
  10.         public ByteBody(final byte[] content) {
  11.  
  12.             super();
  13.  
  14.             if (content == null) {
  15.  
  16.                 throw new IllegalArgumentException("File may not be null");
  17.  
  18.             }
  19.  
  20.             this.mContent = content;
  21.  
  22.         }
  23.  
  24.    
  25.  
  26.         public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
  27.  
  28.             return(new ByteArrayInputStream(mContent));
  29.  
  30.         }
  31.  
  32.  
  33.  
  34.         public void writeTo(final OutputStream out, int mode) throws IOException {
  35.  
  36.             if (out == null) {
  37.  
  38.                 throw new IllegalArgumentException("Output stream may not be null");
  39.  
  40.             }
  41.  
  42.             out.write(mContent, 0, mContent.length);
  43.  
  44.         }
  45.  
  46.  
  47.  
  48.         public String getTransferEncoding() {
  49.  
  50.             return MIME.ENC_BINARY;
  51.  
  52.         }
  53.  
  54.  
  55.  
  56.         public String getCharset() {
  57.  
  58.             return null;
  59.  
  60.         }
  61.  
  62.  
  63.  
  64.         public String getMimeType() {
  65.  
  66.             return "application/octet-stream";
  67.  
  68.         }
  69.  
  70.    
  71.  
  72.         public Map<?, ?> getContentTypeParameters() {
  73.  
  74.             return Collections.EMPTY_MAP;
  75.  
  76.         }
  77.  
  78.  
  79.  
  80.         public String getMediaType() {
  81.  
  82.             return "application";
  83.  
  84.         }
  85.  
  86.  
  87.  
  88.         public String getSubType() {
  89.  
  90.             return "octet-stream";
  91.  
  92.         }
  93.  
  94.  
  95.  
  96.         public long getContentLength() {
  97.  
  98.             return this.mContent.length;
  99.  
  100.         }
  101.  
  102.  
  103.  
  104.         public String getFilename() {
  105.  
  106.             return("bytearray");
  107.  
  108.         }
  109.  
  110.     }
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