upload image from android to php server

Question

I'm trying to upload a photo from android device to a php website. For this I'm using MultipartEntity encoding.

For this I added to my project as an external jar file httpmime-4.1-beta1.jar.

What I want to upload to the php website is a image stored on the SDcard. To this end I'm doing the following in my code:

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("....the link to the webiste...");

        MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity();
        StringBody sb=new StringBody("....");


        File file=new File("/sdcard/image.jpg");
        FileBody bin = new FileBody(file);
        reqEntity.addPart("android",bin);
        reqEntity.addPart("id", sb);

        httppost.setEntity(reqEntity);

        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
        HttpEntity resEntity = response.getEntity();


       if (resEntity != null) {
            String page = EntityUtils.toString(resEntity);
            System.out.println("PAGE :" + page);
        }

But the problem with this is that the response from php server is always a broken link.

What I wanna try next is to use

 MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);

But unfortunately the jar I imported doesn't has the class for HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE.So I would really appreciate if you could point me in the right direction-what else should I import for this to work....or how should I upload the image to the server. I must say that the server is build to upload photo this way:

method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"
                      name="form" target="_self" id="form">
                    <input type="hidden" name="p" value="a" />

Thanks!

You're probably looking for something like this: stackoverflow.com/questions/5476625/… — pawelzieba
– pawelzieba, Commented Jul 29, 2011 at 8:17

Ovidiu Latcu · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-29 08:55:19Z

2

I would recommend not to use a beta library. You should use apache-mime4j-0.6 .

You will also need httpmime-4.0.1.

These need to be your imports:

      import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
      import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
      import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
      import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
      import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
      import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
      import org.apache.http.entity.mime.HttpMultipartMode;
      import org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntity;
      import org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.FileBody;
      import org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.StringBody;
      import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
      import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;

edited Jul 29, 2011 at 8:55

answered Jul 29, 2011 at 8:11

Ovidiu Latcu

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adrian Over a year ago

Now it tells me:The type org.apache.james.mime4j.message.SingleBody cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files at this lines: MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity();reqEntity.addPart("android",bin); reqEntity.addPart("id", sb);

adrian Over a year ago

Am importat deja librariile alea, am adaugat zeci de jar uri si tot imi da eroare la linia respectiva!

Ovidiu Latcu Over a year ago

import that class too then import org.apache.james.mime4j.message.SingleBody;

adrian Over a year ago

Crezi ca o recunoaste?Nu exista clasa respectiva in librarii!:)

Ovidiu Latcu Over a year ago

@george let us continue this discussion in chat

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