How use multipart/form-data upload picture/image on Android

Question

This is my code.

I got Http 400 error, can someone help me?

HttpClient   httpClient;
HttpPost     httpPost;
HttpResponse response;
HttpContext  localContext;
FileEntity   tmp = null;   
String       ret = null;

httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient( );
httpClient.getParams().setParameter( ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, CookiePolicy.RFC_2109) ;

httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
tmp      = new FileEntity( data,"UTF-8" );

httpPost.setEntity( tmp );
httpPost.setHeader( "Content-Type", "multipart/form-data" );
httpPost.setHeader( "access_token", facebook.getAccessToken( ) );
httpPost.setHeader( "source",       data.getAbsolutePath( ) );
httpPost.setHeader( "message",      "Caption for the photo" );

localContext = new BasicHttpContext( );
response     = httpClient.execute( httpPost,localContext );

bobince, thanks this is my new id, I will try put OAuth to my connection header.

And this is my old code, I will update it soon.

private void uploadPicture( ) throws ParseException, IOException {
    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    httpclient.getParams( ).setParameter( CoreProtocolPNames.PROTOCOL_VERSION, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1 );

    HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost( "https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos" );
    File file = new File( sdpicturePath );

    // DEBUG
    Log.d( "TSET", "FILE::" + file.exists( ) ); // IT IS NOT NULL
    Log.d( "TEST", "AT:" + fbAccessToken ); // I GOT SOME ACCESS TOKEN

    MultipartEntity mpEntity  = new MultipartEntity( );
    ContentBody cbFile        = new FileBody( file, "image/png" );
    ContentBody cbMessage     = new StringBody( "TEST TSET" );
    ContentBody cbAccessToken = new StringBody( fbAccessToken );

    mpEntity.addPart( "access_token", cbAccessToken );
    mpEntity.addPart( "source",       cbFile        );
    mpEntity.addPart( "message",      cbMessage     );        

    httppost.setEntity( mpEntity );

    // DEBUG
    System.out.println( "executing request " + httppost.getRequestLine( ) );
    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute( httppost );
    HttpEntity resEntity = response.getEntity( );

    // DEBUG
    System.out.println( response.getStatusLine( ) );
    if (resEntity != null) {
      System.out.println( EntityUtils.toString( resEntity ) );
    } // end if

    if (resEntity != null) {
      resEntity.consumeContent( );
    } // end if

    httpclient.getConnectionManager( ).shutdown( );
} // end of uploadPicture( )

Hi, how did you solve this problem? I'm facing the same problem now. — betteroutthanin
– betteroutthanin, Commented Feb 4, 2014 at 22:36

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:09:20Z

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setEntity sets the source of the whole request body, so this would only work if the data file was an already-encoded multipart/form-data block.

To create a multipart/form-data-encoded form submission for use as a POST request body, you'll need a MIME multipart encoder, typically org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntity. Unfortunately, this is not bundled by Android so if you want it you'll have to pull in a newer HttpClient from Apache.

See this question for example code and this thread for background.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:09

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5 Comments

Joseph Over a year ago

Cool!! but now I got error by this... >> {"error":{"type":"OAuthException","message":"Invalid OAuth access token."}}

bobince Over a year ago

OAuth is an application-level problem, not anything to do with file upload or form creation. Sounds like you need to pass oauth_ headers with the request to authorise access to user data.

Joseph Over a year ago

I fined the OAuth on the facebook application info page. thanks a lot.

Jaffar Raza Over a year ago

I am trying to upload video on facebook.. I hope you can help me regarding uploading video using multipart request..

Zon Over a year ago

MultipartEntity is deprecated nowadays, use MultipartEntityBuilder.create() .addBinaryBody("file", file, ContentType.create("image/jpeg"), file.getName()).build();

Krystian · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-14 12:27:17Z

There is my working solution for sending image with post, using apache http libraries:

            ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, baos);
            byte[] imageBytes = baos.toByteArray();

            HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(StaticData.AMBAJE_SERVER_URL + StaticData.AMBAJE_ADD_AMBAJ_TO_GROUP);

            String boundary = "-------------" + System.currentTimeMillis();

            httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "multipart/form-data; boundary="+boundary);

            ByteArrayBody bab = new ByteArrayBody(imageBytes, "pic.png");
            StringBody sbOwner = new StringBody(StaticData.loggedUserId, ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);
            StringBody sbGroup = new StringBody("group", ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);

            HttpEntity entity = MultipartEntityBuilder.create()
                    .setMode(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE)
                    .setBoundary(boundary)
                    .addPart("group", sbGroup)
                    .addPart("owner", sbOwner)
                    .addPart("image", bab)
                    .build();

            httpPost.setEntity(entity);

            try {
                HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
                ...then reading response

Shaw · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-09 15:52:24Z

as for facebook graph api, this code works perfect. however, sometimes, you need to use name instead of filename, graph api seems to conflict with rfc document.

final String BOUNDERY = "3i2ndDfv2rTHiSisAbouNdArYfORhtTPEefj3q2f";
final String CRLF = "\r\n";
StringBuilder sbBody_1 = new StringBuilder();
sbBody_1.append("--" + BOUNDERY + CRLF);
sbBody_1.append("Content-Disposition: form-data; filename=\"source\"" + CRLF);
sbBody_1.append(CRLF);
StringBuilder sbBody_2 = new StringBuilder();
sbBody_2.append(CRLF + "--" + BOUNDERY + "--");
URL url = new URL("https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?access_token=" + accessToken);
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + BOUNDERY);
connection.setChunkedStreamingMode(0);
OutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
out.write(sbBody_1.toString().getBytes());
out.write(bFile);// bFile is byte array of the bitmap
out.write(sbBody_2.toString().getBytes());
out.close();
BufferedReader bips = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
String temp = null;
while ((temp = bips.readLine()) != null) {
    Log.d("fbnb", temp);
}
bips.close();
connection.disconnect();

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