Alamofire upload huge file

Question

I am using Alamofire to upload assets (image/video) as multipart form data. It works fine for file sizes below 300MB (app). When I try to upload a file greater than 300MB, app crashes.

if let video = self.avPlayerItem?.asset as? AVURLAsset {
    if let assetData = NSData(contentsOfURL: video.URL) {
        multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(data: assetData, name: "file", fileName: "video", mimeType: "video/mp4") // Execution stops here
    }
}

I also get the below message from Xcode

How would I support uploading huge sized videos using Alamofire?

Answer 1

Use Stream to upload instead of converting file to NSData which lead to memory problem and occur crash while uploading huge files. sample code

  if let imageUrl = info[UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL] as? NSURL{
        let assetLibrary = ALAssetsLibrary()
        assetLibrary.assetForURL(imageUrl , resultBlock: { (asset: ALAsset!) -> Void in
            if let actualAsset = asset as ALAsset? {
                let assetRep: ALAssetRepresentation = actualAsset.defaultRepresentation()

                let size = assetRep.size()
                let stream = NSInputStream(URL: assetRep.url())

                Alamofire.upload(
                    .POST,
                    "SERVER_URL",
                    headers: [:],
                    multipartFormData: { multipartFormData in

                         multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(stream: stream!, length: UInt64(size), name: "fileparameter", fileName: "fileName", mimeType: "video/mp4")

                    },
                    encodingCompletion: { encodingResult in
                        switch encodingResult {
                        case .Success(let upload, _, _):
                            upload.progress { bytesWritten, totalBytesWritten, totalBytesExpectedToWrite in
                                dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
                                    let percent = (Float(totalBytesWritten) / Float(totalBytesExpectedToWrite))
                                    print(percent)
                                }
                            }
                            upload.validate()
                            upload.responseJSON { response in
                                print(response);
                            }
                        case .Failure(let encodingError):
                            print(encodingError)
                            let error = NSError(domain: "", code: 404, userInfo: [NSLocalizedDescriptionKey: "Image Uploading Failed. Please try again."])
                            let result = Result<AnyObject, NSError>.Failure(error)
                            let response = Response(request: nil, response: nil, data: nil, result: result)
                             print(response);

                        }
                    }
                )

            }
            }, failureBlock: { (error) -> Void in
        })
    }