Uploading images to server with REST

RentProperty

Hi guys!

We're trying to upload images from our android app to the Aware IM server using the exposed REST service.

We've tried sending the image in base64 format but get the following error when the image is anything more than a couple of KB. "sendto failed: EPIPE (Broken pipe)". The Idea was to send the image as base64 and then just decode it again on the Aware IM Application side...

Is there another way to approach this? Is it possible to specify the content type in the request?

Any help or examples would be appreciated. I'm not sure what exactly the capabilities are of Aware IM regarding rest webservices, since it is not well documented.

Thanks
Werner

chris29

Hi Werner

You should just be able to use a simple POST method using multipart/form-data to do this.

Below is an example webpage that demonstrates how to POST to the AwareIM REST service. In this example you just need to change the action (The URL to the REST service) and the attribute names (Input Name) to match your service. You can add as many Attachments as you like as this depends on the BO you are using to accept the images/documents.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form id="TestAttachementUpload" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="http://localhhost/AwareIM/@@BusinessSpace@@/uploader.json">
<div>
<label for="Subject">Subject</label>
<input name="Subject" type="text" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="Message">Message</label>
<input name="Message" type="text" />
</div>
<div>
<input id="Attachment1" name="Attachment1" type="file" />
<input id="Attachment2" name="Attachment2" type="file" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" id="submit" />
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>