Android- POST multipart form data

Question

I would like to send multipart form with video and data such as Email and name. The following is my code and it does not work ,there is no response from the server

Answer 1

Unfortunately I was not successful to use Venky's code. After two day finally I found my solution and hope it helps those that have same problem. Feel free to modify the code since this code is based on my structure. Note: bitmapProfileImage is global variable that holds bitmap image (Bitmap bitmapProfileImage;)

public class ContentDownloader {

        public static String getHttpPutContent(String url, String token, MultipartEntity multipartEntity) {

            try {
                HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
                HttpPut put = new HttpPut(url);
                put.setHeader("token", token);
    //            Log.i(TAG, "Token=> " + token);
                Log.i(TAG, "Try to open=> " + url);

                MultipartEntity reqEntity = multipartEntity;
                put.setEntity(reqEntity);

                HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(put);
                int statusCode = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
                Log.i(TAG, "Connection code: " + statusCode);

                HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity();
                String serverResponse = EntityUtils.toString(entity);
                Log.i(TAG, "Server response=> " + serverResponse);

                if(!isStatusOk(statusCode))
                    return null;

                return serverResponse;

            } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            return null;
        } 

        /**
         *
         * @param statusCode
         * @return True if connection code is 2xx, False otherwise.
         */
        private static boolean isStatusOk(int statusCode) {
            if((statusCode >= HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK)  &&  (statusCode <= HttpURLConnection.HTTP_PARTIAL))
                return true;

            return false;
        }
}

So in your activity/fragment you should have AsyncTask class. Add following code inside doInBackground method:

        @Override
        protected Integer doInBackground(Void... params) {
            String content = "";
            String url = LinkManager.getUserProfileUrl();

            Person person = SpStorage.getPersonInfo(context);

                String imgPath = SpStorage.getProfilePicPath(context);
                String imgName = imgPath.substring(imgPath.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);

                if(bitmapProfileImage == null) {
                    Log.i(TAG, "bitmap is null. Try to get it from profile pic directory...");
                    String file_path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() +
                            File.separator + ImageDownloader.DIRECTORY_NAME + File.separator + PROFILE_PICS;
                    imgPath = new File(file_path, imgName).getAbsolutePath();
                    bitmapProfileImage = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imgPath);
                }

                if(bitmapProfileImage != null) {
                    Log.i(TAG, "Image address: " + imgPath);

                    try {
                        MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
                        reqEntity.addPart("first_name", new StringBody(person.getName()));
                        reqEntity.addPart("last_name", new StringBody(""));
                        reqEntity.addPart("email",new StringBody(person.getEmail()));
                        reqEntity.addPart("birthday", new StringBody(person.getBirthDay()));
                        reqEntity.addPart("gender", new StringBody(person.getGender(person.getGender())));
                        reqEntity.addPart("orientation", new StringBody(person.getOrientation(person.getGender(), person.getLookingFor())));
                        reqEntity.addPart("relationship_status", new StringBody(person.getStatus(person.getStatus())));
                        reqEntity.addPart("city", new StringBody(person.getCity()));
                        reqEntity.addPart("about", new StringBody(person.getAboutMe()));
                        reqEntity.addPart("device_type", new StringBody("Android"));

                        ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                        bitmapProfileImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 0, bos);
                        byte[] data = bos.toByteArray();
                        ByteArrayBody bab = new ByteArrayBody(data, "profilePic.png");
                        reqEntity.addPart("photo", bab);

                        content = ContentDownloader.getHttpPutContent(url, SpStorage.getToken(context), reqEntity);
                    }
                    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                    catch (Exception e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                } else
                    Log.e(TAG, "Image not found :(");


            if(!TextUtils.isEmpty(content)) {
                return 0; // registration successful
            }

            return -1;
        }

Finally, in order to use MultipartEntity, You are needed to download 4 jar files. One is apache-mime4j and the rest are httpclient, httpcore and httpmime. You should extract jar files and copy/paste it int ./libs folder of your project.

Another use full sample