I have an application that uploads photos through a web service. In the past, I loaded a file into a stream, and converted to Base64. Then I posted the resulting string through the write() method of an OutputStreamWriter. Now, the web service has changed, and it expects multipart/form-data and it does not expect Base64.
So somehow I need to post the chararters of this file as is without conversion. I'm sure I'm close, but all I ever get is a content lengh underflow or overflow. The odd thing is that in the debugger I can see that my buffer length is the same length as the string I'm posting. Here's what I'm doing and hopefully enough code:
// conn is my connection
OutputStreamWriter dataStream = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
// c is my file
int bytesRead = 0;
long bytesAvailable = c.length();
while (bytesAvailable > 0) {
byte[] buffer = new byte[Math.min(12288, (int)bytesAvailable)];
bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, Math.min(12288, (int)bytesAvailable));
// assign the string if needed.
if (bytesRead > 0) {
bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
// I've tried many encoding types here.
String sTmp = new String(buffer, "ISO-8859-1");
// HERE'S the issue. I can't just write the buffer,
dataStream.write(sTmp);
dataStream.flush();
// Yes there's more code, but this should be enough to show why I don't know what I'm doing!
change
OutputStreamWriter dataStream = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
with this
DataOutputStream dataStream = new DataOutputStream(conn.getOutputStream());
and directly call dataStream.write(buffer);
let me know how it behave
Edit: edited answer according to comment
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