Apache HttpClient making multipart form post

Question

I\'m pretty green to HttpClient and I\'m finding the lack of (and or blatantly incorrect) documentation extremely frustrating. I\'m trying to implement the following post (

Answer 1

if use org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient package, maybe that can help you!

    HttpConnectionManager httpConnectionManager = new MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager();
    //here should set HttpConnectionManagerParams but not important for you
    HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient(httpConnectionManager);

    PostMethod postMethod = new PostMethod("http://localhost/media");

    FilePart filePart = new FilePart("file", new File(filepath));
    StringPart typePart = new StringPart("type", fileContent.getType(), "utf-8");
    StringPart fileNamePart = new StringPart("fileName", fileContent.getFileName(), "utf-8");
    StringPart timestampPart = new StringPart("timestamp", ""+fileContent.getTimestamp(),"utf-8");
    Part[] parts = { typePart, fileNamePart, timestampPart, filePart };

    MultipartRequestEntity multipartRequestEntity = new MultipartRequestEntity(parts, postMethod.getParams());
    postMethod.setRequestEntity(multipartRequestEntity);
    httpClient.executeMethod(postMethod);
    String responseStr = postMethod.getResponseBodyAsString();