Friday, December 21, 2007

Flex multipart/form-data post request

Flex 2 (and 3) are great tools Adobe sent us to try and fix the harm they did with AS2 ;-)
Almost everything we needed was there, except one thing (acctually more...)
There is no way to create a multipart form in order to send any data we want to the server (we're talking ByteArray).
So I wrote a class, It's a lot like UrlRequest, accepting MultipartVariables object as data, here's a short example:


public function startUpload():void {
loader = new MultipartLoader('http://my.uploads.server.com:3007/uploads/test');
var variables:MultipartVariables = new MultipartVariables();
var myByteArray:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
// we will create a fake file content here, you should replace this
// with th ebinary data you want to upload
for(var i:int=0; i<100000;i++) {
myByteArray.writeUTFBytes("123by\nAR\r\nRA\x65\x0156");
}
variables.add('file_data',myByteArray);
variables.add('another_var','extra data');
loader.variables = variables;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,fileUploaded);
loader.load();
}

private function fileUploaded(event:Event):void {
trace(MultipartLoader(event.target).responseBody);
}

The code can be fetched using svn at: https://multipart-loader.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/multipart-loader

or in the google code page:
http://code.google.com/p/multipart-loader/downloads/list

Would love to hear your comments.

19 comments:

Raz said...

good work!

10x

Unknown said...

Can we post multiple JPEGEncoded data as found on this tutorial (http://henryjones.us/articles/using-the-as3-jpeg-encoder) with this?

I'd like to post multiple user-generated images all at the same time.

ebaggg said...

How do you get access to the byte data to upload the file?! If I use FileReference to browse() and select a file, I don't have access to the bytes.

Unknown said...

Hey Neer, I had a pretty detailed look over this problem recently too. You can check the results out here.

ProfessorX said...

relative paths not allowed. fooey... i just can't seem to get it to work with rails. I am not sure what I am doing wrong

xxxx said...

Hi NeerFri.

Where is the last version of
MultipartLoader.swc file?

I try to use it but without the parameter filename="ruby.pdf" I only pass a parameter called data name="data";

Kind regards and thank you four your help.
Reiner

Unknown said...

Any idea as to why no matter what I do I get a sandbox violation error. I have added a crossdomain file and granted everything access.

Unknown said...

Thought I'd come back and mention the link I posted in a previous comment is now dead, but you can now find it here:

http://blog.mikestead.me/upload-multiple-files-with-a-single-request-in-flash/

Unknown said...

hi,
i'm very new in adobe flex/air,
your post is very interesting, but i don't know where loader comes from

Ganesh Bhat said...

Nice work.
But how can I set cookie on multipart request?

My application does authentication based on that.

Please help

Thanks
Ganesh

Sairam said...

Hi Mike,



Today, I just tried the link you have given below but I am getting the following error:

Error establishing a database connection

Link: http://blog.mikestead.me/upload-multiple-files-with-a-single-request-in-flash/

Unknown said...

Hey sorry about that, I'm having issues with my hosting.

You can find the full source to my solution along with an example and unit tests here:

http://github.com/mikestead/as3urlrequestbuilder

Unknown said...

Also the cached version of the blog page can be found here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6HnouWSH83oJ:blog.mikestead.me/upload-multiple-files-with-a-single-request-in-flash/+as3+url+request+mike+stead&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

Nirmal Kumar Bhogadi said...

Hello Neer,

I am working on an application where in I need to send the multipart data from flex to .NET. The problem is I will not have any URL here. I just need to generate the multipart content and send it to .NET. Can you please suggest me what can I do in this respect.

Thanks,
Nirmal Kumar Bhogadi

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[Charith De Silva] said...

Big thanks to your project. Its just great and resolved my impediment.

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