Uploading video file to server from iPhone - iphone

Question

I know how to upload images to a server running PHP, but I am stuck on uploading video.
I have used this advice to upload my video file.
Posting method is all ok. What I get on the server is a file of 0 bytes.
My code is below:
- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info {
NSURL *videoURL = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL];
NSData *videoData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:[videoURL path]];
}
This videoData is passed in my POST method.
What should I do instead?

Answer 1

for posting video you need to use this function after image picker delegate
- (NSData *)generatePostDataForData:(NSData *)uploadData
{
// Generate the post header:
NSString *post = [NSString stringWithCString:"--AaB03x\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"upload[file]\"; filename=\"somefile\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: binary\r\n\r\n" encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
// Get the post header int ASCII format:
NSData *postHeaderData = [post dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
// Generate the mutable data variable:
NSMutableData *postData = [[NSMutableData alloc] initWithLength:[postHeaderData length] ];
[postData setData:postHeaderData];
// Add the image:
[postData appendData: uploadData];
// Add the closing boundry:
[postData appendData: [#"\r\n--AaB03x--" dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES]];
// Return the post data:
return postData;
}
- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info{
//assign the mediatype to a string
NSString *mediaType = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaType];
//check the media type string so we can determine if its a video
if ([mediaType isEqualToString:#"public.movie"]){
NSLog(#"got a movie");
NSURL *videoURL = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL];
NSData *webData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:videoURL];
[self post:webData];
[webData release];
}
for post video use this function
- (void)post:(NSData *)fileData
{
NSLog(#"POSTING");
// Generate the postdata:
NSData *postData = [self generatePostDataForData: fileData];
NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", [postData length]];
// Setup the request:
NSMutableURLRequest *uploadRequest = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.example.com:3000/"] cachePolicy: NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData timeoutInterval: 30 ] autorelease];
[uploadRequest setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[uploadRequest setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Length"];
[uploadRequest setValue:#"multipart/form-data; boundary=AaB03x" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[uploadRequest setHTTPBody:postData];
// Execute the reqest:
NSURLConnection *conn=[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:uploadRequest delegate:self];
if (conn)
{
// Connection succeeded (even if a 404 or other non-200 range was returned).
NSLog(#"sucess");
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Got Server Response" message:#"Success" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
}
else
{
// Connection failed (cannot reach server).
NSLog(#"fail");
}
}