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amburnside
amburnside

Reputation: 1903

Get the real filepath of any file in Android

I have an app which I can select an image from the device Gallery. I need to get the real filepath of the file to upload the file to a remote server. I have this working successfully with images only, but I wish to expand my app to include any filetype. My current code fails when trying to get the filepath of a non image. My code so far:

String filepath = "";
try {
  String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
  Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
  if (cursor != null && cursor.getCount() != 0) {
    int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
    cursor.moveToFirst();
    filepath = cursor.getString(column_index);
  }
}
catch(Exception e) {
  Log.e("Path Error",e.toString());
}

I believe my problem lies with "MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA", but I am not sure what to replace it with to handle all file types.

UPDATE

OK, worked out that my code is 99% fine. It does work on multiple file types. The problem is with filenames which contain spaces. How do I handle this. I notice that the filepaths are url encoded ie spaces are replaced with "%20".

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1644

Answers (2)

Kishan Vaghela
Kishan Vaghela

Reputation: 7938

Uri fileUri=Uri.fromfile(fileObject);

USE: setUrl(Uri.decode(fileUri));

Upvotes: 1

amburnside
amburnside

Reputation: 1903

Turns out problem was handling filenames which contained URL encoded spaces i.e "%20"

For anyone that is interested my adapted code is as follows:

String filepath = "";
String uriPath = uri.toString();

// Handle local file and remove url encoding
if(uriPath.startsWith("file://")) {
  filepath = uriPath.replace("file://","");
  try {
    return URLDecoder.decode(filepath, "UTF-8");
  } 
  catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
    e.printStackTrace()
  }
}

try {
  String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA };
  Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
  if (cursor != null && cursor.getCount() != 0) {
    int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA);
    cursor.moveToFirst();
    filepath = cursor.getString(column_index);
  }
}
catch(Exception e) {
  Log.e("Path Error",e.toString());
}
return filepath;

Upvotes: 4

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