I need to submit unicode characters to a form to localize my app to countries with non latin alphabet. There is little documentation about the new MultiPartEntityBuiler and I only found one other post suggesting to use setCharset.
If I don't use Entity.setCharset(Consts.UTF_8); the variables are transformed into "?????" When I use Entity.setCharset(Consts.UTF_8); the variables are blanked (empty content).
Here is the code below. Any idea??
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.util.Log;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
...
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import org.apache.http.Consts;
...
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class AsyncUploader {
public static final int ABORTED = -1,
ERROR = 1,
COMPLETE = 0;
//public final int Upload(String Url, Hashtable<String, String> Data, String Name, File Uploadable)
public final int Upload(String Url, Hashtable<String, String> Data)
{
try
{
//if (Uploadable == null || !Uploadable.exists())
//return ABORTED;
HttpPost Post = new HttpPost(Url);
MultipartEntityBuilder Entity = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();
// TODO To avoid unicode characters turned unto ??? but if we decomment variables are empty...
//Entity.setCharset(Consts.UTF_8);
if (Data != null && Data.size() > 0)
{
for (Entry<String, String> NameValuePair : Data.entrySet())
Entity.addTextBody(NameValuePair.getKey(), NameValuePair.getValue(), ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);
}
//Entity.addPart(Name, new FileBody(Uploadable));
Post.setEntity(Entity.build());
return new _Uploader().execute(Post).get();
}
catch (Exception Error)
{
return ERROR;
}
}
private static class _Uploader
extends AsyncTask<Object, Void, Integer>
{
@Override protected Integer doInBackground(Object... Parameters)
{
try
{
if (Parameters.length < 1 || Parameters[0] == null || !(Parameters[0] instanceof HttpPost))
throw new Exception("Unknown parameter passed in arguments");
HttpPost Request = (HttpPost) Parameters[0];
DefaultHttpClient Client = null;
HttpResponse Response = null;
InputStream Stream = null;
try
{
HttpParams httpParameters = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(httpParameters, HTTP.UTF_8);
HttpProtocolParams.setHttpElementCharset(httpParameters, HTTP.UTF_8);
HttpProtocolParams.setUseExpectContinue(httpParameters, false);
System.setProperty("http.keepAlive", "false");
Client = new DefaultHttpClient(httpParameters);
Client.getParams().setParameter("http.protocol.version", HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
Client.getParams().setParameter("http.protocol.content-charset", HTTP.UTF_8);
HttpRequestRetryHandler Retry = new HttpRequestRetryHandler()
{
@Override public boolean retryRequest(IOException Error, int Count, HttpContext Sender)
{
if (Count >= 2)
return false;
if (Error instanceof NoHttpResponseException)
return true;
else if (Error instanceof ClientProtocolException)
return true;
return false;
}
};
Client.setHttpRequestRetryHandler(Retry);
Response = Client.execute(Request);
Stream = Response.getEntity().getContent();
// Piece of code to get the content of the page
if( Response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK ) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(Stream), 65728);
String line = null;
String bufferOutput = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) sb.append(line);
bufferOutput = sb.toString();
if( bufferOutput.equals("OK") ) return 0;
else return ERR_OTHER;
}
catch (IOException e) { return ERROR; }
catch (Exception e) { return ERROR; }
}
else
{
return Response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
}
}
catch (Exception Error)
{
return ERROR;
}
finally
{
try
{
if (Stream != null)
Stream.close();
}
catch (Exception Error)
{ }
try
{
if (Response != null && Response.getEntity() != null)
Response.getEntity().consumeContent();
}
catch (Throwable Error)
{ }
try
{
if (Client != null && Client.getConnectionManager() != null)
Client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
}
catch (Throwable Error)
{ }
}
}
catch (Exception Error)
{
return ERROR;
}
}
}
}