How to multipart data using Android Volley

Question

I am using Volley for calling web request for my app. But as i am Volley for first time. I just want to know that how to upload image/video media data via volley using multipart.

I searched for it many sites, I got some results over

How to send a “multipart/form-data” POST in Android with Volley

But, these methods does'nt look good or efficients. So, Please help me that how to upload media data using volley. Or i should not use Volley, and should go for the previous manual approach

Anyway, all thoughts and answers are extremely appreciated. Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Don't know if you have got an answer, but if you haven't try this:

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Map;  import org.apache.http.HttpEntity; import org.apache.http.entity.mime.HttpMultipartMode; import org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntityBuilder; import org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.FileBody;  import com.android.volley.AuthFailureError; import com.android.volley.NetworkResponse; import com.android.volley.Request; import com.android.volley.Response; import com.android.volley.VolleyLog;  public class MultipartRequest extends Request<String> {  // private MultipartEntity entity = new MultipartEntity();  MultipartEntityBuilder entity = MultipartEntityBuilder.create(); HttpEntity httpentity; private static final String FILE_PART_NAME = "file";  private final Response.Listener<String> mListener; private final File mFilePart; private final Map<String, String> mStringPart;  public MultipartRequest(String url, Response.ErrorListener errorListener,         Response.Listener<String> listener, File file,         Map<String, String> mStringPart) {     super(Method.POST, url, errorListener);      mListener = listener;     mFilePart = file;     this.mStringPart = mStringPart;     entity.setMode(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);     buildMultipartEntity(); }  public void addStringBody(String param, String value) {     mStringPart.put(param, value); }  private void buildMultipartEntity() {     entity.addPart(FILE_PART_NAME, new FileBody(mFilePart));     for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : mStringPart.entrySet()) {         entity.addTextBody(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());     } }  @Override public String getBodyContentType() {     return httpentity.getContentType().getValue(); }  @Override public byte[] getBody() throws AuthFailureError {     ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();     try {         httpentity = entity.build();         httpentity.writeTo(bos);     } catch (IOException e) {         VolleyLog.e("IOException writing to ByteArrayOutputStream");     }     return bos.toByteArray(); }  @Override protected Response<String> parseNetworkResponse(NetworkResponse response) {     return Response.success("Uploaded", getCacheEntry()); }  @Override protected void deliverResponse(String response) {     mListener.onResponse(response); }    } 

In order to make it work you must use this java httpclients: http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi By the time I'm writing this answer (02/07/14) the version I'm using is 4.3.2.

Hope it helps !