I'm trying to modify the open source library of cloudinary so that I can listen to the progress of the upload of my photo. The library class contains a MultipartUtility java class that I modified to listen to the progress of the upload.
The original code before modifications can be found on github: https://github.com/cloudinary/cloudinary_java/blob/master/cloudinary-android/src/main/java/com/cloudinary/android/MultipartUtility.java
I literally modified it to resemble the code from another cloud service CloudFS that supports progress when uploading files / images etc:
https://github.com/bitcasa/CloudFS-Android/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/bitcasa/cloudfs/api/MultipartUpload.java
package com.cloudinary.android;
import com.cloudinary.Cloudinary;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Map;
/**
* This utility class provides an abstraction layer for sending multipart HTTP
* POST requests to a web server.
*
* @author www.codejava.net
* @author Cloudinary
*/
public class MultipartUtility {
private final String boundary;
private static final String LINE_FEED = "\r\n";
private static final String APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM = "application/octet-stream";
private HttpURLConnection httpConn;
private String charset;
private OutputStream outputStream;
private PrintWriter writer;
UploadingCallback uploadingCallback;
public final static String USER_AGENT = "CloudinaryAndroid/" + Cloudinary.VERSION;
Long filesize;
public void setUploadingCallback(UploadingCallback uploadingCallback) {
this.uploadingCallback = uploadingCallback;
}
/**
* This constructor initializes a new HTTP POST request with content type is
* set to multipart/form-data
*
* @param requestURL
* @param charset
* @throws IOException
*/
public MultipartUtility(String requestURL, String charset, String boundary, Map<String, String> headers, Long filesize) throws IOException {
this.charset = charset;
this.boundary = boundary;
this.filesize = filesize;
URL url = new URL(requestURL);
httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpConn.setDoOutput(true); // indicates POST method
httpConn.setDoInput(true);
httpConn.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(filesize); //added this in
if (headers != null) {
for (Map.Entry<String, String> header : headers.entrySet()) {
httpConn.setRequestProperty(header.getKey(), header.getValue());
}
}
httpConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary);
httpConn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", USER_AGENT);
outputStream = httpConn.getOutputStream();
writer = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, charset), true);
}
public MultipartUtility(String requestURL, String charset, String boundary) throws IOException {
this(requestURL, charset, boundary, null, 0L);
}
/**
* Adds a form field to the request
*
* @param name field name
* @param value field value
*/
public void addFormField(String name, String value) {
writer.append("--" + boundary).append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + name + "\"").append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=" + charset).append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append(value).append(LINE_FEED);
writer.flush();
}
/**
* Adds a upload file section to the request
*
* @param fieldName name attribute in {@code <input type="file" name="..." />}
* @param uploadFile a File to be uploaded
* @throws IOException
*/
public void addFilePart(String fieldName, File uploadFile, String fileName) throws IOException {
if (fileName == null) fileName = uploadFile.getName();
FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(uploadFile);
addFilePart(fieldName, inputStream, fileName);
}
public void addFilePart(String fieldName, File uploadFile) throws IOException {
addFilePart(fieldName, uploadFile, "file");
}
public void addFilePart(String fieldName, InputStream inputStream, String fileName) throws IOException {
if (fileName == null) fileName = "file";
writer.append("--" + boundary).append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + fieldName + "\"; filename=\"" + fileName + "\"").append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append("Content-Type: ").append(APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM).append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary").append(LINE_FEED);
writer.append(LINE_FEED);
writer.flush();
int progress = 0;
byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
int bytesRead = -1;
while ((bytesRead = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
progress += bytesRead;
/* int percentage = ((progress / filesize.intValue()) * 100);*/
if (uploadingCallback != null) {
uploadingCallback.uploadListener(progress);
}
}
outputStream.flush();
writer.flush();
uploadingCallback = null;
inputStream.close();
writer.append(LINE_FEED);
writer.flush();
}
public void addFilePart(String fieldName, InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
addFilePart(fieldName, inputStream, "file");
}
/**
* Completes the request and receives response from the server.
*
* @return a list of Strings as response in case the server returned status
* OK, otherwise an exception is thrown.
* @throws IOException
*/
public HttpURLConnection execute() throws IOException {
writer.append("--" + boundary + "--").append(LINE_FEED);
writer.close();
return httpConn;
}
}
The changes I made were to add on the following to the httpURLConnection as recommended by this thread: How to implement file upload progress bar in android: httpConn.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(filesize);
I then created a simple interface to listen for the upload progress:
public interface UploadingCallback {
void uploadListener(int progress);
}
And then I attached it while the HttpURLConnection wrote the photo:
while ((bytesRead = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
progress += bytesRead;
/* int percentage = ((progress / filesize.intValue()) * 100);*/
if (uploadingCallback != null) {
uploadingCallback.uploadListener(progress);
}
}
The code ran but the progress of the upload doesn't seem to be measured correctly. The photo was about 365kb and the upload took about a 10th of a second (I started the upload at 17:56:55.481 and by 17:56:55.554 it was done, thats is just over 0.7 seconds). I do not believe my internet connection is that fast and expect it to take at least 5 seconds. I have a feeling it is measuring the time it took to write the photo to the buffer instead of the time it took to send it to cloudinary's servers.
How can I get it to measure the time it takes to upload the photo so that I can use the data for my progress bar?
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To test this out for yourself, you will need to create a free account on cloudinary website in order to get your cloudname
so you can connect your Android SDK to their services for an unsigned direct upload from android directly to their servers.
EDIT:
This is what I have tried and it still jumps from 0 - 100% in 0.7 seconds when the upload actually finishes in 7 seconds time:
while ((bytesRead = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
progress += bytesRead;
Log.d("MultiPart", "file transferred so far: "
+ progress);
if (uploadingCallback != null) {
uploadingCallback.uploadListener(progress);
}
Log.d("Flushing", "flush the writer");
outputStream.flush();
writer.flush();
}