I managed to upload an image to my server using Cordova File Transfer plugin.
var img = <full path to image>
var url = <url to webservice>
var options = new FileUploadOptions(); //no specified options, using defaults
var ft = new FileTransfer();
ft.upload(img, encodeURI(url), win, fail, options);
var win = function (r) {
console.log('Successfully sent');
}
var fail = function (error) {
console.log("An error has occurred: Code = " + error.code);
};
However, my server had problems reading the image due to the extra header added by the plugin.
--+++++..Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="filename.jpg"..Content-Type: image/jpeg....
Took me awhile to figure this but this is the way I removed the Multipart Header. Here's the solution/work around.
Open: \platforms\android\src\org\apache\cordova\filetransfer\FileTransfer.java
Look for:
sendStream.write(beforeDataBytes);
totalBytes += beforeDataBytes.length;
Comment away or delete these 2 lines. They are the code that adds the multipart header.
Also remove:
sendStream.write(tailParamsBytes);
totalBytes += tailParamsBytes.length;
This code adds a tail for the multipart header.
I have done a MD5 checksum check and they are of the same now.
Please add headers to options
var headers={'headerParam':'headerValue'};
options.headers = headers;
Just refer the example from GitHub.
Just put a 'Content-Type' in Headers.
headers: A map of header name/header values. Use an array to specify more than one value. On iOS, FireOS, and Android, if a header named Content-Type is present, multipart form data will NOT be used. (Object)
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer#example-with-upload-headers-and-progress-events-android-and-ios-only
Based on the source code:
boolean multipartFormUpload = (headers == null) || !headers.has("Content-Type");
if (multipartFormUpload) {
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + BOUNDARY);
}
You can find it is easy to disable the multipart header by setting a dummy header option in your javascript:
options.headers = {"Content-Type":"dummy"}; // set it to something to avoid the plug-in append the header