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objective-chttp-postnsurlconnectionmultipartform-data
user1433743
user1433743

Reputation: 59

send multiple data to server

I managed to send some string with image data to the server. However array which contains the images has more than 1 object. I can perfectly get the first image from server but rest seems to disappear. Is there any way to send multiple data files to server or is there anything wrong in my for loop to send the images ? Server side code seems to work fine since it gets the strings and the first image file so I think there must be something wrong in the objective-c part of my code.

NSString *urlString = @"http://www.somesite.com/cgi-bin/somefile.py";

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

NSString *boundary = @"---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449";
NSString *contentType = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@",boundary];
[request addValue:contentType forHTTPHeaderField: @"Content-Type"];

NSMutableData *body = [NSMutableData data];

NSString *filenames = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"some string"]; //set name here
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"sessionString\"\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[filenames dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"userEmail\"\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[sharedSingletonCenter.emailString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

for (int i = 0; i < [self.pagesArray count]; i++) {
    NSData* imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(self.pagesArray[i]);
    NSLog(@"added %i", i+1);
    [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file_%i\"; filename=\".png\"\r\n", i + 1] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    [body appendData:[@"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    [body appendData:[NSData dataWithData:imageData]];
    [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@--\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    }

// setting the body of the post to the reqeust
[request setHTTPBody:body];

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible:YES];
NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil];
NSString *returnString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:returnData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

NSLog(@"%@", returnString);
NSLog(@"finish");

Upvotes: 2

Views: 821

Answers (1)

Rob
Rob

Reputation: 438232

The problem is that multipart form elements are separated with

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary]

But then terminated with 

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@--\r\n",boundary]

But you're inserting that termination boundary string at the end of each file. You want to change your code to do that only at the end. Thus:

NSMutableData *body = [NSMutableData data];

NSString *filenames = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"some string"]; //set name here
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"sessionString\"\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[filenames dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"userEmail\"\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[sharedSingletonCenter.emailString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

for (int i = 0; i < [self.pagesArray count]; i++) {
    [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    NSData* imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(self.pagesArray[i]);
    NSLog(@"added %i", i+1);
    [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file_%i\"; filename=\".png\"\r\n", i + 1] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    [body appendData:[@"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    [body appendData:[NSData dataWithData:imageData]];
}

[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@--\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

// setting the body of the post to the reqeust
[request setHTTPBody:body];

Upvotes: 2

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