Question

I’m trying to upload a video file from the device to the YouTube api. I have the authorization part working, but their documentation has me embedding the video data right into the XML payload (between multipart request entity codes), and I’m not entirely clear on what the correct way is to read the file in, encode it, and print it back out to the request. My assumption is that I need to load it into a byte[] and then spit that back out to string while encoding it, but I’d rather have some authoritative guidance than play trial-and-error games in the dark.

TIA

Answer 1

I think you want to do this

InputStreamBody metadata = new InputStreamBody(xmlMetadata, "application/atom+xml; charset=UTF-8");
FileBody content = new FileBody(new File("video.mp4"), "application/octet-stream");
MultipartEntity reqEntity = new MultipartEntity();
reqEntity.addPart("metadata", metadata);
reqEntity.addPart("content", content);
post.setEntity(reqEntity);
client.execute(post);