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Decoding error,image format unsupported Azure

I am running a flask server at the backend. I want to read the image from mobile app and send it to the server to detect faces.
This is the java code(client side) for sending image as bytes -
public class client {
public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception{
String url = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/facial";
// 2. create obj for the URL class
URL obj = new URL(url);
// 3. open connection on the url
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","image/jpeg");
con.setDoInput(true);
con.setDoOutput(true);
try {
System.out.println("Reading image from disk. ");
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
baos.flush();
File file = new File("jpeg.jpg");
BufferedImage image1 = ImageIO.read(file);
ImageIO.write(image1, "jpg", baos);
baos.flush();
System.out.println(baos.size());
byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();
baos.close();
System.out.println("Sending image to server. ");
OutputStream out = con.getOutputStream();
DataOutputStream image = new DataOutputStream(out);
image.writeInt(bytes.length);
image.write(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
System.out.println("Image sent to server. ");
image.close();
// close the output stream
out.close();
}catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + e.getMessage());
}
// define object for the reply from the server
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
//Get response from server
int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
System.out.println("Response Code : " + responseCode);
// read in the response from the server
String inputLine;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(inputLine);
System.out.println(inputLine);
}
// close the input stream
in.close();
}
}
This is my server code -
def get_facial(data):
face_api_url = 'https://southeastasia.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/detect'
# Set image_url to the URL of an image that you want to analyze.
headers = {'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': subscription_key,
"Content-Type":"application/octet-stream"
}
params = {
'returnFaceId': 'true',
'returnFaceLandmarks': 'false',
'returnFaceAttributes': 'age,gender,headPose,smile,facialHair,glasses,' +
'emotion,hair,makeup,occlusion,accessories,blur,exposure,noise'
}
response = requests.post(face_api_url, params=params, headers=headers, data=data)
faces = response.json()
res={}
import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
res["status"] = '200'
res["num"] = str(len(faces))
return res
#app.route('/facial',methods=['POST'])
def facial():
import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
data=bytes(request.get_data())
res={}
try:
res = get_facial(data)
except:
res['status'] = '404'
print(res)
return json.dumps(res)
After examining - I sent the same image from another python file and checked the size of the data. It was 102564 bytes and it works but
the same image read and sent from java code is 106208 bytes. I don't know where exactly the mistake is.
Any help is appreciated !!:-)

I found a quick fix to this problem -
Path path = Paths.get("jpeg.jpg");
byte[] fileContents = Files.readAllBytes(path);
image.write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.length);
I don't exactly know why reading from imageio fails. My guess is that its also reading the file headers of the jpg file.

URLEncoder with POST method in Android

I am trying to put data from my android application into PHP file on a web server to be used to make a query from MYSQL server.
I was trying the below command to encode the variable before sending it as I saw a lot of programmer used it on the internet.
Edit: I edited my Android Code to split the String into two segments and concatenate it but I still receive nothing in the PHP variabe.
New Code:
if (operator.equals("GetRow")){
try {
String selectedcoresite = params [1];
URL url = new URL(rowsurl);
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStream OS = httpURLConnection.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(OS, "UTF-8" ));
String key = URLEncoder.encode("selectedcoresite","UTF-8");
String value = URLEncoder.encode(selectedcoresite,"UTF-8");
String data = key+value;
bufferedWriter.write(data);
bufferedWriter.flush();
bufferedWriter.close();
OS.close();
InputStream IS = httpURLConnection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(IS, "iso-8859-1"));
while ((line2 = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
row+= line2;
}
bufferedReader.close();
IS.close();
httpURLConnection.disconnect();
return row;
}catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return null;
}
where the "selectedcoresite" is the key and selectedcoresite in second statement is the variable.
the error with me is that android refuses the command allowing me only to do only one statement without +.
URLEncoder.encode(Name, "UTF-8");
this causes the PHP file not to recognize its input as it depends on the key "selectedcoresite" to put the value.
what should I do?
PHP Simple Code:
<?php
require "init.php";
$coresite = $_POST["selectedcoresite"];
echo json_encode($coresite);
thanks

Android Http Response is incomplete. Returns an unterminated json object

I am using HttpClient 4.3.6 to perform http GET and POST requests. Right now I am using multipartentity to send a few string parameters and an image in the form of a file. I am able to successfully post the data but my problem comes in when I get the HTTP response. The response contains json data.
What happens is the HTTP response is incomplete and when i try to create a json object with the data i get jsonexception error saying:
Unterminated object at character 407.
I noticed that the response does not contain closed braces. Is this a problem on android or should I check the server? Because I am able to see the data properly on postman and on ios. I have never faced this issue before and don't know how to solve this.
This is my code to post and get the response:
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
try {
String url = params[0];
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity();
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, baos);
byte[] imageBytes = baos.toByteArray();
ByteArrayBody bab = new ByteArrayBody(imageBytes, "image.jpg");
entity.addPart("image_data", bab);
entity.addPart("action", new StringBody("1", "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("name", new StringBody("asdfg", "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("user_id", new StringBody("157", "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("birthday", new StringBody("18-04-1995", "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("gender", new StringBody("male", "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("is_jlpt_student", new StringBody(String.valueOf(0), "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("relationship", new StringBody("Father", "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("relationship_id", new StringBody(String.valueOf(10002), "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("is_creator", new StringBody(String.valueOf(1), "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("email", new StringBody(email, "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
httppost.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse resp = httpclient.execute(httppost);
String response = EntityUtils.toString(resp.getEntity());
Log.i("HttpResponse", response);
return response;
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute (String result) {
super.onPostExecute(result);
JSONObject jsonObject = null;
try {
jsonObject = new JSONObject(result);
JSONObject json_data = jsonObject.getJSONObject("data");
String json_userid = json_data.getString("user_id");
String json_username = json_data.getString("name");
String json_email = json_data.getString("email");
String json_country = json_data.getString("country_code");
String json_imagefilename = json_data.getString("image_filename");
String json_imgurl = json_data.getString("image_url");
Toast.makeText(ParentGuardianProfile.this, "ImageFile " + json_imagefilename, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
User new_user = userdao.createUser(json_userid, json_username, json_email,json_imagefilename,json_country,selectedImageUri.toString(), 1);
Log.i("SQLITE", "added user : " + new_user.getmUserName() + new_user.getmId());
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
And my json response is :
{"status":1,"message":"success","data":{"child_id":"381","name":"asdfg","image_filename":"C201603021734476.jpg","image_url":"https:\/\/innokid.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/child\/381.jpg","birthday":"18-04-1995","gender":"male","is_jltp_student":"0","relationship":"Father","relationship_id":"10002","is_creator":1,"rank":1,"qrcode_url":"http:\/\/innokid.azurewebsites.net\/uploads\/qrcode\/child_381.png"
I tried using String buffer as suggested in this post String is being truncated when its too long . But i still get the same result.

Code looks ok at first glance.
How do you got know that the json data is cut? Logcat can truncate text. Debugger should be more reliable in this case.
Try to generate this same request with some tools like curl / SoapUI and validate JSON you got with some formatter / validator (you'll easily find a few of such tools).
It's beyond the range of question, but using raw Android built-in communication libraries seems to be a little bit masochistic. Have you ever consider to use Retrofit?

I think this code is problematic String response = EntityUtils.toString(resp.getEntity());
may be you should use some other function to convert response toString...
Apparently the json is missing two curly brackets '}}' at the end, which can happen due to some bug in the toString code.

I pulled up an old project that was using the org.apache.http stuff and below is how I was parsing the response. As you can see it is rather cumbersome. There are many tested and maintained libraries out there that are better suited to this kind of heavy-lifting.
// Get hold of the response entity (-> the data):
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null) {
// Read the content stream
InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
Header contentEncoding = response.getFirstHeader("Content-Encoding");
if (contentEncoding != null && contentEncoding.getValue().equalsIgnoreCase("gzip")) {
instream = new GZIPInputStream(instream);
}
// Convert content stream to a String
resultString = convertStreamToString(instream);
instream.close();
// Do stuff with resultString here
// Consume Content
entity.consumeContent();
}
And the convertStreamToString() method:
private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
/*
* To convert the InputStream to String we use the
* BufferedReader.readLine() method. We iterate until the BufferedReader
* return null which means there's no more data to read. Each line will
* appended to a StringBuilder and returned as String.
*
* (c) public domain:
* http://senior.ceng.metu.edu.tr/2009/praeda/2009/01/
* 11/a-simple-restful-client-at-android/
*/
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is), 8192);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try {
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return sb.toString();
}

I finally solved this issue by replacing httpclient library with Android Asynchronous Http Client. Now it works fine. Thanks a lot for your help!
However, I still dont understand why the response was truncated when i used httpclient.

HttpUrlConnection.getInputStream returns empty stream in Android

I make a GET request to a server using HttpUrlConnection.
After connecting:
I get response code: 200
I get response message: OK
I get input stream, no exception thrown but:
in a standalone program I get the body of the response, as expected:
{"name":"my name","birthday":"01/01/1970","id":"100002215110084"}
in a android activity, the stream is empty (available() == 0), and thus I can't get
any text out.
Any hint or trail to follow? Thanks.
EDIT: here it is the code
Please note: I use import java.net.HttpURLConnection; This is the standard
http Java library. I don't want to use any other external library. In fact
I did have problems in android using the library httpclient from apache (some of their anonymous .class can't be used by the apk compiler).
Well, the code:
URLConnection theConnection;
theConnection = new URL("www.example.com?query=value").openConnection();
theConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", "UTF-8");
HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) theConnection;
int responseCode = httpConn.getResponseCode();
String responseMessage = httpConn.getResponseMessage();
InputStream is = null;
if (responseCode >= 400) {
is = httpConn.getErrorStream();
} else {
is = httpConn.getInputStream();
}
String resp = responseCode + "\n" + responseMessage + "\n>" + Util.streamToString(is) + "<\n";
return resp;
I see:
200
OK
the body of the response
but only
200
OK
in android

Trying the code of Tomislav I've got the answer.
My function streamToString() used .available() to sense if there is any data received,
and it returns 0 in Android. Surely, I called it too soon.
If I rather use readLine():
class Util {
public static String streamToString(InputStream is) throws IOException {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
String line;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
}
return sb.toString();
}
}
then, it waits for the data to arrive.
Thanks.

You can try with this code that will return response in String:
public String ReadHttpResponse(String url){
StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder();
HttpClient client= new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url);
try {
HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpget);
StatusLine sl = response.getStatusLine();
int sc = sl.getStatusCode();
if (sc==200)
{
HttpEntity ent = response.getEntity();
InputStream inpst = ent.getContent();
BufferedReader rd= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inpst));
String line;
while ((line=rd.readLine())!=null)
{
sb.append(line);
}
}
else
{
Log.e("log_tag","I didn't get the response!");
}
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return sb.toString();
}

The Stream data may not be ready, so you should check in a loop that the data in the stream is available before attempting to access it.
Once the data is ready, you should read it and store in another place like a byte array; a binary stream object is a nice choice to read data as a byte array. The reason that a byte array is a better choice is because the data may be binary data like an image file, etc.
InputStream is = httpConnection.getInputStream();
byte[] bytes = null;
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] temp = new byte[is.available()];
while (is.read(temp, 0, temp.length) != -1) {
baos.write(temp);
temp = new byte[is.available()];
}
bytes = baos.toByteArray();
In the above code, bytes is the response as byte array. You can convert it to string if it is text data, for example data as utf-8 encoded text:
String text = new String(bytes, Charset.forName("utf-8"));

Save and Access the data through web service in remote server in android [duplicate]

I have an idea for an app and am currently learning Android development. I'm fairly familiar with creating simple standalone apps.
I'm also familiar with PHP and webhosting.
What I want to do is, make an android app send an image to a server via the internet and make the server return a processed image. I have no clue how I'd do that.
Can you please tell me how can I go about achieving this or which topics should I look into? Also, what scripts can I use to do the processing on the web server? Particularly, can I use PHP or Java?
Thanks!

For Image Uploading
///Method Communicate with webservice an return Yes if Image uploaded else NO
String executeMultipartPost(Bitmap bm,String image_name) {
String resp = null;
try {
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
bm.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 75, bos);
byte[] data = bos.toByteArray();
HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost("domain.com/upload_image.php");
ByteArrayBody bab = new ByteArrayBody(data, image_name);
MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
reqEntity.addPart("uploaded", bab);
reqEntity.addPart("photoCaption", new StringBody("sfsdfsdf"));
postRequest.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8"));
String sResponse;
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
while ((sResponse = reader.readLine()) != null) {
s = s.append(sResponse);
}
resp=s.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
// handle exception here
Log.e(e.getClass().getName(), e.getMessage());
}
return resp;
}
//PHP Code
<?php
$target = "upload/";
$target = $target . basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']) ;
$ok=1;
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'], $target))
{
echo "yes";
}
else {
echo "no";
}
?>

Normally we do it with http connection, you can pass the image in the
post params, for further reference please see the link

You have to create a simple php web service which accepts parameter as image bytes and which process the image and store in server. For this android app will send image data in bytes to the server using HttpPost.
For retrieving purpose you have to create a other web service which will output the file name of image from where android app can retrieve the image