I'm sending an image from an Android phone to an AppEngine. The AppEngine is throwing content exceptions. My process of elimination has failed so I suspect I've done something larger wrong. Do I have a content type problem or a larger problem?
The AppEngine log shows the following errors depending on the content type [content type --> resulting error]:
multipart/mixed stream --> org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException: the request was rejected because no multipart boundary was found the request was rejected because no multipart boundary was found
image/jpg --> org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase$InvalidContentTypeException: the request doesn't contain a multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed stream, content type header is image/jpg
binary/octet-stream --> org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase$InvalidContentTypeException: the request doesn't contain a multipart/form-data or multipart/mixed stream, content type header is binary/octet-stream
ANDROID CODE:
static void apachePost(File file) {
File file = new File(directory, fileName);
try {
String url = "http://chexserve.appspot.com/chexappengine";
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
FileEntity entity = new FileEntity(file, "multipart/mixed stream");
httpPost.setEntity(entity);
Log.v(Constants.CHEX,
"executing request " + httpPost.getRequestLine());
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
Log.v(Constants.CHEX, "received http response " + response);
HttpEntity resEntity = response.getEntity();
httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
APPENGINE CODE:
public class ChexAppEngineServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final Logger LOG = Logger
.getLogger(ChexAppEngineServlet.class.getName());
/** Processes the incoming request */
#Override
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
LOG.info("LOG: received post");
System.out.println("PRINTLN: received post " + request);
try {
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload();
FileItemIterator iter;
iter = upload.getItemIterator(request);
if (iter.hasNext()) {
FileItemStream imageItem = iter.next();
InputStream imgStream = imageItem.openStream();
System.out.println("PRINTLN: created imgStream " + imgStream);
// construct our entity objects
Blob imageBlob = new Blob(IOUtils.toByteArray(imgStream));
MyImage myImage = new MyImage(imageItem.getName(), imageBlob);
System.out.println("PRINTLN: created my image " + myImage);
} else {
System.out.println("PRINTLN: no file in post");
LOG.info("LOG: no file in post");
}
} catch (FileUploadException e) {
LOG.info("failed to parse post request: " + e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Update:
AppEngine is still rejecting the request with "the request was rejected because no multipart boundary was found" error after I changed the Android's entity line to:
FileEntity entity = new FileEntity(file, "multipart/mixed");
According to the documentation [http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/preference-api.html],"The multipart boundary string to use in conjunction with the MultipartRequestEntity. When not set a random value will be generated for each request."
Further, there are no setter methods for the boundary.
How can I set the boundary?
The content type is "multipart/mixed", not "multipart/mixed stream". Also valid should be "multipart/form-data". If you're just uploading the image, though, you can upload it as image/jpeg, and read the raw data from the request on the server, by calling (If I recall correctly), request.getInputStream() - no need to use the Apache forms library at all.
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I am trying to upload an image from my android application on the server through a wcf webservice method. It is throwing me an error as "The server cannot service the request because the media type is unsupported".
The code used to upload the image is as below :
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost("http://myWebServicelink/Service1.svc/UploadFile/");
ByteArrayBody bab = new ByteArrayBody(sendData,fileName);
MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
reqEntity.addPart("f", bab);
reqEntity.addPart("fileName", new StringBody(fileName));
postRequest.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response= httpClient.execute(postRequest);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
String result= EntityUtils.toString(entity);
The UploadFile method accepts two parameters as string UploadFile(byte[] f, string fileName);
and returns a string as "OK" if the image is transferred or throws an error if not.
The webservice method is as follows :
public string UploadFile(byte[] f, string fileName)
{
// the byte array argument contains the content of the file
// the string argument contains the name and extension
// of the file passed in the byte array
try
{
// instance a memory stream and pass the
// byte array to its constructor
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(f);
// instance a filestream pointing to the
// storage folder, use the original file name
// to name the resulting file
FileStream fs = new FileStream
(System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/TransientStorage/") +
fileName, FileMode.Create);
// write the memory stream containing the original
// file as a byte array to the filestream
ms.WriteTo(fs);
// clean up
ms.Close();
fs.Close();
fs.Dispose();
// return OK if we made it this far
return "OK";
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// return the error message if the operation fails
return ex.Message.ToString();
}
}
Why is it throwing this error, i am able to figure out. What am i missing here ?
Please help.
I am developing a android app where I am using Zend framework to build APIs. I am calling API using this code. This is code in IntentService class.
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
// Set timeout values
client.getParams().setIntParameter(
CoreConnectionPNames.CONNECTION_TIMEOUT,
CONNECTION_TIMEOUT * 1000);
client.getParams().setIntParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.SO_TIMEOUT,
SOCKET_TIMEOUT * 1000);try {
HttpUriRequest httpRequest = null;
HttpResponse response = null;
// Set HttpUriRequest based on type of HTTP method
if (method.equals("GET")) {
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
httpRequest = request;
}
// Get response
response = client.execute(httpRequest);
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
response.getEntity().getContent()));
// Read the response
String responseString = readResponseContent(rd);
Log.e(TAG, "length of response is " + responseString.length());
Log.e(TAG, "response :" + responseString);
// If status code 200 then send response
}catch (Exception e) {
MyLog.e(TAG, "Exception while connecting to URL : " + url);
e.printStackTrace();
sendUnknownError();
}
Now the problem is I have created one API which response is very long. But After getting this I am sending broadcast to where it is called. It returns response in chunks So when it receives response first time but actually response is not yet completed. So that's causing some issues later on. So How can I wait for full response before calling broadcast method.
So I need to wait for it to get full response. How I can do this ?
Just as a demonstration the code will work, I am attempting to fetch some JSON data within my oncreate function. I know it should run on a different thread but I want to be sure the code successfully fetches my JSON before moving it into it's own thread.
The code is below:
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main_activity);
/***************************************************/
final String TAG = "PostFetcher";
final String SERVER_URL = "http://kylewbanks.com/rest/posts";
// final String TAG = "PostsActivity";
// List<Post> posts;
try {
//Create an HTTP client
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(SERVER_URL);
//Perform the request and check the status code
HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
if(statusLine.getStatusCode() == 200) {
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
InputStream content = entity.getContent();
try {
//Read the server response and attempt to parse it as JSON
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(content);
GsonBuilder gsonBuilder = new GsonBuilder();
gsonBuilder.setDateFormat("M/d/yy hh:mm a");
Gson gson = gsonBuilder.create();
List<JsonObject> posts = new ArrayList<JsonObject>();
Log.e(TAG, "Checking: " + posts);
// posts = Arrays.asList(gson.fromJson(reader, JsonObject[].class));
content.close();
} catch (Exception ex) {
Log.e(TAG, "Failed to parse JSON due to: " + ex);
}
} else {
Log.e(TAG, "Server responded with status code: " + statusLine.getStatusCode());
}
} catch(Exception ex) {
Log.e(TAG, "Failed to send HTTP POST request due to: " + ex);
}
}
When I run the code, I get the second to last exception message:
Server responded with status code: 500
Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
You are sending a HttpPost request to (obviously) an website that uses RESTful styled API.
This means, it works with HTTP Verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE).
If you want to read data and the read access never changes data, use GET.
If you want to update or replace data, user PUT or POST (put usually to replace, POST to change/add). However, JavaScript does (or did) only support GET and POST requests, so keep that in mind.
If you want to delete a resource or collection, use DELETE.
That being said: If you want to load data, use Get in your case HttpGet instead of HttpPost.
Also read more about RESTful web APIs.
Edit:
In fact, calling the given URL in Fiddler2 (as stated in the comment on the other answer) results a HTML website reporting the error:
You called this URL via POST, but the URL doesn't end in a slash and
you have APPEND_SLASH set. Django can't redirect to the slash URL
while maintaining POST data. Change your form to point to
kylewbanks.com/rest/posts/ (note the trailing slash), or set
APPEND_SLASH=False in your Django settings.
Its internal server error..check if there are any exceptions are getting thrown at server side.
It has nothing to do with your android code, the problem is at server.
You can use AsyncTask to run network/filesystem related operations.
I'm sending images and json text from the android client to a tomcat server and the other way around by using Multipart HttpPost's. Sending a Multipart Entity to the server is no big deal, because you can process the parts easily using request.getPart(<name>). But at the client side you can only access the response as a Stream. So I end up appending both, the JSON string and the image to the same ServletOutputStream and have to parse them by hand on the client side. I found apache-mime4j in the web but its hardly documented and I cant find a single example how to use it.
On the server side I build the response like this:
ServletResponse httpResponse = ctx.getResponse();
ResponseFacade rf = (ResponseFacade) httpResponse;
rf.addHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
rf.addHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST");
rf.addHeader("content-type", "multipart/form-data");
httpResponse.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
MultipartResponse multi = new MultipartResponse((HttpServletResponse) httpResponse);
ServletOutputStream out = httpResponse.getOutputStream();
multi.startResponse("text/plain");
out.println(CMD + "#" + content);
multi.endResponse();
multi.startResponse("image/jpeg");
out.write(data);
multi.endResponse();
multi.finish();
ctx.complete();
And on the client side on Android I want to access the text and the image data:
InputStream is = response.getEntity().getContent();
MimeStreamParser parser = new MimeStreamParser();
MultipartContentHandler con = new MultipartContentHandler();
parser.setContentHandler(con);
try {
parser.parse(is);
String json = con.getJSON(); //get extracted json string
byte[] imgBytes = con.getBytes(); //get extracted bytes
} catch (MimeException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
is.close();
}
class MultipartContentHandler implements ContentHandler{
public void body(BodyDescriptor bd, InputStream in) throws MimeException, IOException {
//if MIME-Type is "text/plain"
// process json-part
//else
// process image-part
}
In the method body(BodyDescriptor bd, InputStream in) my whole response is treated as text\plain mime type. So I finally have to parse every byte manually again and the whole apache-mime4j is useless. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks!
Ok i finally solved it myself. No here's what i did:
First I need to create a multipart/mixed Response at the server side. It can be done using apache-mime-4j API:
ServletResponse httpResponse = ctx.getResponse();
ResponseFacade rf = (ResponseFacade) httpResponse;
httpResponse.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
httpResponse.setContentType("multipart/mixed");
MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE, "SEPERATOR_STRING",Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
entity.addPart("json", new StringBody(CMD + "#" + content, "text/plain", Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
entity.addPart("image", new ByteArrayBody(data, "image/jpeg", "file"));
httpResponse.setContentLength((int) entity.getContentLength());
entity.writeTo(httpResponse.getOutputStream());
ctx.complete();
Now at the client side to access the MIME-Parts of the HttpResponse I use the javax.mail API.
ByteArrayDataSource ds = new ByteArrayDataSource(response.getEntity().getContent(), "multipart/mixed");
MimeMultipart multipart = new MimeMultipart(ds);
BodyPart jsonPart = multipart.getBodyPart(0);
BodyPart imagePart = multipart.getBodyPart(1);
But you can't use the native API, instead take this one http://code.google.com/p/javamail-android/
Now you can proceed handling your individual parts.
It is also possible with apache-mime-4j:
HttpURLConnection conn = ...;
final InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
try {
final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("MIME-Version: ").append(conn.getHeaderField("MIME-Version")).append("\r\n");
sb.append("Content-Type: ").append(conn.getHeaderField("Content-Type")).append("\r\n");
sb.append("\r\n");
parser.parse(new SequenceInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(sb.toString().getBytes("US-ASCII")), is));
} catch (final MimeException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
is.close();
}
I have a rest webservice that takes a POST metod with multipart message:
#Path("transferFile")
#POST
#Consumes(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
#Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML)
public String multipartTest(com.sun.jersey.multipart.MultiPart data) {
try {
// get first body part (index 0)
BodyPart bp = multiPart.getBodyParts().get(0);
etc..
Now I am trying to write a java client for that. I started with a simple jersey client:
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MultiPart multiPart = new MultiPart();
multiPart.bodyPart( new BodyPart(wavestream,MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM_TYPE));
Client c = Client.create();
WebResource r = c.resource("http://127.0.0.1:8080/webapp:);
response=r.path("transferFile").type(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA).accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML).post(String.class, multiPart);
This works great - everything is ok. However I need this client working on Android and I have trouble with using jersey on that platform. So I used the normal way to send multipart message on android:
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
client.getParams().setParameter("http.socket.timeout", new Integer(90000)); // 90 second
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://127.0.0.1:8080/webapp/transferFile");
httpPost.setHeader("Content-Type", MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA );
//tried with and without base64
byte [] encodedWavestream = Base64.encodeBytesToBytes(wavestream);
InputStream ins = new ByteArrayInputStream(encodedWavestream);
InputStreamBody body = new InputStreamBody(ins, "test" );
int send = ins.available();
MultipartEntity requestContent = new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE );
requestContent.addPart("stream", body);
httpPost.setEntity(requestContent);
HttpResponse Response = client.execute(httpPost);
An this gives an annoying response from the server :
HTTP Status 400 - Bad Request
The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect (Bad Request).
I check the server log files but there is nothing there. So I don't know what's the origin of this error. I have wrote a simple html page with a post formula and 'multipart/form-data' content-type and it also works! An auto-generated request from soapUI also works! Why my client does not work? Can anybody help?
There is bug in Jersey. See Chunked encoding problem.
This problem appears only for few clients (iOS, Android).
If you set the Content-Type to application/octet-stream, then the Jersey MessageWriter for the application/octet-stream will set the Content-Length and
not send as chunked transport method.
There is solution for Jersey Client:
ClientConfig config = new DefaultClientConfig();
config.getProperties().put(ClientConfig.PROPERTY_CHUNKED_ENCODING_SIZE, 32 * 1024);
But it doesn't work for the iOS's or Android's client.
So I tested Apache File Upload. Threre was another bug: "Stream ended unexpectedly".
Only Oreilly upload can upload file correct for all clients.
This is my code:
public Object[] getParametersAndFiles(HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
log.debug("OreillyUpload");
Properties params = new Properties();
LinkedHashMap files = new LinkedHashMap();
File tempDirectory = new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"));
MultipartParser mp = new MultipartParser(request, 1*1024*1024); // 10MB
Part part;
while ((part = mp.readNextPart()) != null) {
String name = part.getName();
if (part.isParam()) {
// it's a parameter part
ParamPart paramPart = (ParamPart) part;
String value = paramPart.getStringValue();
params.put(name, value);
log.debug("param; name=" + name + ", value=" + value);
}
else if (part.isFile()) {
// it's a file part
FilePart filePart = (FilePart) part;
String fileName = filePart.getFileName();
if (fileName != null) {
// the part actually contained a file
File file = new File(tempDirectory,fileName);
long size = filePart.writeTo(file);
files.put(name, file);
log.debug("file; name=" + name + "; filename=" + fileName +
", filePath=" + filePart.getFilePath() +
", content type=" + filePart.getContentType() +
", size=" + size);
}
else {
// the field did not contain a file
log.debug("file; name=" + name + "; EMPTY");
}
}
}
return new Object[] {params, files};
}
And this is Jersey Server code (warning all Jersey Upload anotations (like as "#FormDataParam") should be removed):
#POST
#Path("uploadMarkup")
#Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
// #Consumes(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
//// public void uploadMarkup(
// public JSONWithPadding uploadMarkup(
// #FormDataParam("markupFile") InputStream markupFile,
// #FormDataParam("markupFile") FormDataContentDisposition details,
// #FormDataParam("slideNum") int slideNum) {
public JSONWithPadding uploadMarkup(#Context HttpServletRequest request) {
Object[] data = uploadService.getParametersAndFiles(request);
...
}