Java Http Client to upload file over POST

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I'm developing a J2ME client that must upload a file to a Servlet using HTTP.

The servlet part is covered using Apache Commons FileUpload

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) 
{       

    ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload();
    upload.setSizeMax(1000000);

    File fileItems = upload.parseRequest(request);

    // Process the uploaded items
    Iterator iter = fileItems.iterator();
    while (iter.hasNext()) {
        FileItem item = (FileItem) iter.next();
        File file = new File("\files\\"+item.getName());
        item.write(file);
    }
}

Commons Upload seems to be able to upload only multipart file, but no application/octect-stream.

But for the client side there are no Multipart classes, neither, in this case, is possible to use any HttpClient library.

Other option could be to use HTTP Chunk upload, but I haven't found a clear example of how this could be implemented, specially on the servlet side.

My choices are: - Implement a servlet for http chunk upload - Implement a raw client for http multipart creation

I don't know how to implement none of the above options. Any suggestion?

java-me servlets file-upload http java
5 Answers

Following code can be used to upload file with HTTP Client 4.x (Above answer uses MultipartEntity which is deprecated now)

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntityBuilder;
import org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.FileBody;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

String uploadFile(String url, File file) throws IOException
{
    HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url);
    post.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
    _addAuthHeader(post);
    MultipartEntityBuilder builder = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();
    // fileParamName should be replaced with parameter name your REST API expect.
    builder.addPart("fileParamName", new FileBody(file));
    //builder.addPart("optionalParam", new StringBody("true", ContentType.create("text/plain", Consts.ASCII)));
    post.setEntity(builder.build());
    HttpResponse response = getClient().execute(post);;
    int httpStatus = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
    String responseMsg = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "UTF-8");

    // If the returned HTTP response code is not in 200 series then
    // throw the error
    if (httpStatus < 200 || httpStatus > 300) {
        throw new IOException("HTTP " + httpStatus + " - Error during upload of file: " + responseMsg);
    }

    return responseMsg;
}

You will need recent versions of the following Apache libraries: httpclient, httpcore, httpmime.

getClient() can be replaced with HttpClients.createDefault().

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Please find the sample working example for File upload functionality using HttpClient in Java.

package test;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.FileEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

public class fileUpload {
private static void executeRequest(HttpPost httpPost) {
    try {
        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpPost);
        System.out.println("Response Code:  " + response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

public void executeMultiPartRequest(String urlString, File file) throws IOException {
    HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(urlString);
    postRequest = addHeader(postRequest, "Access Token");
    try {
        postRequest.setEntity(new FileEntity(file));
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
    executeRequest(postRequest);
}

private static HttpPost addHeader(HttpPost httpPost, String accessToken) {
    httpPost.addHeader("Accept", "application/json;odata=verbose");
    httpPost.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);
    return httpPost;
}

public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
    fileUpload fileUpload = new fileUpload();
    File file = new File("C:\\users\\bgulati\\Desktop\\test.docx");
    fileUpload.executeMultiPartRequest(
            "Here Goes the URL", file);

}
}
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