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androidhttppostout-of-memory
Michal W
Michal W

Reputation: 803

Sending big files via http post method using StringEntity with little heap size

Let's think over this situation. You have a small heap, about 15-16MB and you want to send a huge file, but not as big as heap size via REST post. In Android there's a whole API to do it but it requires you to enclose data in StringEntity where there are only up to two params. String which is body and Charset. Let's say you have a file which is about 10MB. Everything is going well until you are putting data into StringEntity where an Exception occurs: OutOfMemory with description about full stack.

How do I solve this problem without chunking data?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 544

Answers (1)

tow
tow

Reputation: 569

Use a FileEntity instead. That will stream the data into the request instead of loading it into memory.

Upvotes: 1

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