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How to Pass value along with file upload through webclient C# [duplicate]

How can I send a file and form data with the HttpClient?
I have two ways to send a file or form data. But I want to send both like an HTML form. How can I do that? Thanks.
This is my code:
if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var requestContent = new MultipartFormDataContent();
filename = openFileDialog1.FileName;
array = File.ReadAllBytes(filename);
var imageContent = new ByteArrayContent(array);
imageContent.Headers.ContentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("audio/*");
requestContent.Add(imageContent, "audio", "audio.wav");
var values = new Dictionary<string, string>
{
{ "token", "b53b99534a137a71513548091271c44c" },
};
var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(values);
requestContent.Add(content);
var response = await client.PostAsync("localhost", requestContent);
var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
txtbox.Text = responseString.ToString();
}

Here's code I'm using to post form information and a csv file
using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
{
var surveyBytes = ConvertToByteArray(surveyResponse);
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-API-TOKEN", _apiToken);
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
var byteArrayContent = new ByteArrayContent(surveyBytes);
byteArrayContent.Headers.ContentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("text/csv");
var response = await httpClient.PostAsync(_importUrl, new MultipartFormDataContent
{
{new StringContent(surveyId), "\"surveyId\""},
{byteArrayContent, "\"file\"", "\"feedback.csv\""}
});
return response;
}
This is for .net 4.5.
Note the \" in the MultipartFormDataContent. There is a bug in MultipartFormDataContent.
In 4.5.1 MultipartFormDataContent wraps the data with the correct quotes.
Update: This link to the bug no longer works since the have retired Microsoft Connect.

Here's code I'm using a method to send file and data from console to API
static async Task uploaddocAsync()
{
MultipartFormDataContent form = new MultipartFormDataContent();
Dictionary<string, string> parameters = new Dictionary<string, string>();
//parameters.Add("username", user.Username);
//parameters.Add("FullName", FullName);
HttpContent DictionaryItems = new FormUrlEncodedContent(parameters);
form.Add(DictionaryItems, "model");
try
{
var stream = new FileStream(#"D:\10th.jpeg", FileMode.Open);
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri(#"http:\\xyz.in");
HttpContent content = new StringContent("");
content.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("form-data")
{
Name = "uploadedFile1",
FileName = "uploadedFile1"
};
content = new StreamContent(stream);
form.Add(content, "uploadedFile1");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.dsfdsfdsfdsfsdfkhjhjkhjk.vD056hXETFMXYxOaLZRwV7Ny1vj-tZySAWq6oybBr2w");
var response = client.PostAsync(#"\api\UploadDocuments\", form).Result;
var k = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
}

Xamarin Sending POST Data

I am attempting to send POST data to my server and get back a response. For some reason, no POST data is actually getting sent. A request is being sent to my server but the POST array is empty.
Here is my code for sending the request:
public class GlobalMethods
{
public async Task<string> callAjax(string mthd,NameValueCollection parameters)
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var content = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(parameters);
var result = await client.PostAsync("http://dev.adex-intl.com/adex/mvc/receiving/"+mthd, new StringContent(content)).ConfigureAwait(false);
var tokenJson = "";
if (result.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
tokenJson = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
}
return tokenJson;
}
}
And here is my code that calls the above method:
public void loginPressed(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if(String.IsNullOrEmpty(badge.Text)) {
DisplayAlert("Error", "Enter your badge number", "Ok");
} else {
IsBusy = true;
NameValueCollection parameters = new NameValueCollection();
parameters["badgetNumber"] = badge.Text;
GlobalMethods globalMethods = new GlobalMethods();
var results = globalMethods.callAjax("login", parameters);
}
}
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Also, I'm a newbie to Xamarin and C# so I'm not even sure if the way I am attempting to do things is the best way.

You haven't specify the type of content that you want to send, in your case it's 'application/json', you can set it like that:
"var client = new HttpClient();
var content = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(parameters));
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");". Also, I would suggest you to write code like that:
var uri = new Uri(url);
using (var body = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data)))
{
body.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
var request = new HttpRequestMessage
{
Version = new Version(1, 0),
Content = body,
Method = HttpMethod.Post,
RequestUri = uri
};
try
{
using (var response = await _client.SendAsync(request,cancellationToken))
{
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
//Deal with success response
}
else
{
//Deal with non-success response
}
}
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
//Deal with exception.
}
}

You can use PostAsync for async sending data to server. your code should be something like this:
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
var values = new Dictionary<string, string>
{
{ "p1", "data1" },
{ "p2", "data2" }
};
var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(values);
var response = await client.PostAsync("http://www.example.com/index.php", content);
var responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

How to implement a multipart post request in c# wp8.1 (winrt)

Already second day trying to implement a multipart post request, but so far I have failed.
Task: to send 1 or 2 pictures to the server.
Please tell me how to do this in Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT). Already tried a huge number of links on the Internet, but nothing happened.
p.s. in the description of the API server written that you must submit a request in the following format.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"files": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "file"
}
}
}
}
Yes, of course. Here is my code. I searched the Internet and eventually tried to implement this. Interestingly, it worked and sent the data to the server. only the North returned the error: "data error", so I sent out in the wrong format. I assume it's because not json created structure, about which I wrote above.
public async static Task<bool> UploadFiles(StorageFile file)
{
var streamData = await file.OpenReadAsync();
var bytes = new byte[streamData.Size];
using (var dataReader = new DataReader(streamData))
{
await dataReader.LoadAsync((uint)streamData.Size);
dataReader.ReadBytes(bytes);
}
System.Net.Http.HttpClient httpClient = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient();
System.Net.Http.MultipartFormDataContent form = new System.Net.Http.MultipartFormDataContent();
form.Add(new System.Net.Http.StringContent(UserLogin), "username");
form.Add(new System.Net.Http.StringContent(UserPassword), "password");
form.Add(new System.Net.Http.ByteArrayContent(bytes, 0, bytes.Length), "files", "items");
form.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("multipart/form-data");
System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.PostAsync(UploadFilesURI, form);
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
httpClient.Dispose();
string sd = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
return true;
}
Sorry for this style of code. Haven't quite figured out how to insert it correctly in the posts

I eventually solved my problem. The code give below
public async static Task<string> UploadFiles(StorageFile[] files)
{
try
{
System.Net.Http.HttpClient client = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.AcceptLanguage.Add(new StringWithQualityHeaderValue("ru"));
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Token", "token=" + SessionToken);
var content = new System.Net.Http.MultipartFormDataContent();
foreach (var file in files)
{
if (file != null)
{
var streamData = await file.OpenReadAsync();
var bytes = new byte[streamData.Size];
using (var dataReader = new DataReader(streamData))
{
await dataReader.LoadAsync((uint)streamData.Size);
dataReader.ReadBytes(bytes);
}
string fileToUpload = file.Path;
using (var fstream = await file.OpenReadAsync())
{
var streamContent = new System.Net.Http.ByteArrayContent(bytes);
streamContent.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("form-data")
{
Name = "files[]",
FileName = Path.GetFileName(fileToUpload),
};
content.Add(streamContent);
}
}
}
var response = await client.PostAsync(new Uri(UploadFilesURI, UriKind.Absolute), content);
var contentResponce = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<API.ResponceUploadFiles.RootObject>(contentResponce);
return result.cache;
}
catch { return ""; }
}

How to send MultipartForm using POST method in (Windows Phone 8.1) C#

Can any one explain how can i make POST request to a URL on web with different type of data, in my case i have an image and two string type values to send to a server in PHP.
here what i already have done
var stream = await file.OpenStreamForReadAsync();
var streamcontent = new StreamContent(stream);
streamcontent.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("form-data")
{
Name = "photo",
FileName = file.Name
};
streamcontent.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("image/jpeg");
MultipartFormDataContent multipart = new MultipartFormDataContent();
multipart.Add(streamcontent);
try
{
descContent = mytextbox.Text;
var stringcontent = new StringContent(descContent);
stringcontent.Headers.ContentType.Parameters.Add(new NameValueHeaderValue("description", descContent));
multipart.Add(stringcontent);
HttpResponseMessage res = await client.PostAsync(new Uri("http://localhost/web/test/index.php"), multipart);
res.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
mytextbox.Text = await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
}
catch (HttpRequestException ex)
{
mytextbox.Text = ex.Message;
}
this code will send the image file but not the description(string), i have searched over the internet but I could not find appropriate answer.
here is the PHP code
if (isset($_FILES['photo']))
{
echo $_FILES["photo"]["name"] . "<br>";
}
else
{
echo "Image: Error<br>";
}
if (isset($_POST['description']))
{
echo $_POST['description'];
}
else
{
echo "Text: Error";
}
any response will be highly appreciated.
thank you

I have search a lot and finally got the way out. here is the code
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://www.yourdomain.com");
MultipartFormDataContent form = new MultipartFormDataContent();
HttpContent content = new StringContent("your string type data you want to post");
form.Add(content, "name");
var stream = await file.OpenStreamForReadAsync();
content = new StreamContent(stream);
content.Headers.ContentDisposition = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("form-data")
{
Name = "image",
FileName = file.Name
};
form.Add(content);
var response = await client.PostAsync("index.php", form);
mytextblock.Text = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
I wrote it on my blog here is the code. :-)
HappyCoding

Upload files with HTTPWebrequest (multipart/form-data)
http://www.paraesthesia.com/archive/2009/12/16/posting-multipartform-data-using-.net-webrequest.aspx/

Connecting to and uploading tracks with Soundcloud API using C# .NET

I'm trying to upload an audio track to the Soundcloud.com using C#.NET, but there aren't any resources for .NET anywhere. Could someone post a link or an example of how to upload an audio file to my Soundcloud.com account using .NET?
Thank you,
Arman

To upload an audio using soundcloud's REST API you need to take care of HTTP POST related issues (RFC 1867). In general, ASP.NET does not support sending of multiple files/values using POST, so I suggest you to use Krystalware library: http://aspnetupload.com/Upload-File-POST-HttpWebRequest-WebClient-RFC-1867.aspx
After that you need to send proper form fields to the https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks url:
Auth token (oauth_token)
Track Title (track[title])
The file (track[asset_data])
Sample code:
using Krystalware.UploadHelper;
...
System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;
var request = WebRequest.Create("https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks") as HttpWebRequest;
//some default headers
request.Accept = "*/*";
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Charset", "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3");
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate,sdch");
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.8,ru;q=0.6");
//file array
var files = new UploadFile[] {
new UploadFile(Server.MapPath("Downloads//0.mp3"), "track[asset_data]", "application/octet-stream")
};
//other form data
var form = new NameValueCollection();
form.Add("track[title]", "Some title");
form.Add("track[sharing]", "private");
form.Add("oauth_token", this.Token);
form.Add("format", "json");
form.Add("Filename", "0.mp3");
form.Add("Upload", "Submit Query");
try
{
using (var response = HttpUploadHelper.Upload(request, files, form))
{
using (var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
lblInfo.Text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
lblInfo.Text = ex.ToString();
}
The example code allows you to upload an audio file from the server (notice the Server.MapPath method to form path to the file) and to get a response in json format (reader.ReadToEnd)

Here is a code snippet to upload track via the SoundCloud API =>
using (HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient()) {
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.ConnectionClose = true;
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.Add(new ProductInfoHeaderValue("MySoundCloudClient", "1.0"));
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("OAuth", "MY_AUTH_TOKEN");
ByteArrayContent titleContent = new ByteArrayContent(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("my title"));
ByteArrayContent sharingContent = new ByteArrayContent(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("private"));
ByteArrayContent byteArrayContent = new ByteArrayContent(File.ReadAllBytes("MYFILENAME"));
byteArrayContent.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/octet-stream");
MultipartFormDataContent content = new MultipartFormDataContent();
content.Add(titleContent, "track[title]");
content.Add(sharingContent, "track[sharing]");
content.Add(byteArrayContent, "track[asset_data]", "MYFILENAME");
HttpResponseMessage message = await httpClient.PostAsync(new Uri("https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks"), content);
if (message.IsSuccessStatusCode) {
...
}

Here another way to get non expiring token and upload track to SoundCloud using C#:
public class SoundCloudService : ISoundPlatformService
{
public SoundCloudService()
{
Errors=new List<string>();
}
private const string baseAddress = "https://api.soundcloud.com/";
public IList<string> Errors { get; set; }
public async Task<string> GetNonExpiringTokenAsync()
{
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
client.BaseAddress = new Uri(baseAddress);
var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new[]
{
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("client_id","xxxxxx"),
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("client_secret","xxxxxx"),
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("grant_type","password"),
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("username","xx#xx.com"),
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("password","xxxxx"),
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("scope","non-expiring")
});
var response = await client.PostAsync("oauth2/token", content);
if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
dynamic data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
return data.access_token;
}
Errors.Add(string.Format("{0} {1}", response.StatusCode, response.ReasonPhrase));
return null;
}
}
public async Task UploadTrackAsync(string filePath)
{
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
client.BaseAddress=new Uri(baseAddress);
var form = new MultipartFormDataContent(Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
var contentTitle = new StringContent("Test");
contentTitle.Headers.ContentType = null;
form.Add(contentTitle, "track[title]");
var contentSharing = new StringContent("private");
contentSharing.Headers.ContentType = null;
form.Add(contentSharing, "track[sharing]");
var contentToken = new StringContent("xxxxx");
contentToken.Headers.ContentType = null;
form.Add(contentToken, "[oauth_token]");
var contentFormat = new StringContent("json");
contentFormat.Headers.ContentType = null;
form.Add(contentFormat, "[format]");
var contentFilename = new StringContent("test.mp3");
contentFilename.Headers.ContentType = null;
form.Add(contentFilename, "[Filename]");
var contentUpload = new StringContent("Submit Query");
contentUpload.Headers.ContentType = null;
form.Add(contentUpload, "[Upload]");
var contentTags = new StringContent("Test");
contentTags.Headers.ContentType = null;
form.Add(contentTags, "track[tag_list]");
var bytes = File.ReadAllBytes(filePath);
var contentFile = new ByteArrayContent(bytes, 0, bytes.Count());
contentFile.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/octet-stream");
form.Add(contentFile, "track[asset_data]", "test.mp3");
var response = await client.PostAsync("tracks", form);
}
}
}