example of a multi-part form post in objective-c

iOS-UploadImage.h

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"REST URL PATH"]];
    
    NSData *imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 1.0);

    [request setCachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData];
    [request setHTTPShouldHandleCookies:NO];
    [request setTimeoutInterval:60];
    [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
    
    NSString *boundary = @"unique-consistent-string";
    
    // set Content-Type in HTTP header
    NSString *contentType = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@", boundary];
    [request setValue:contentType forHTTPHeaderField: @"Content-Type"];
    
    // post body
    NSMutableData *body = [NSMutableData data];
    
    // add params (all params are strings)
    [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"--%@\r\n", boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=%@\r\n\r\n", @"imageCaption"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@\r\n", @"Some Caption"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    // add image data
    if (imageData) {
        [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"--%@\r\n", boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
        [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=%@; filename=imageName.jpg\r\n", @"imageFormKey"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
        [body appendData:[@"Content-Type: image/jpeg\r\n\r\n" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
        [body appendData:imageData];
        [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    }
    
    [body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"--%@--\r\n", boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    // setting the body of the post to the reqeust
    [request setHTTPBody:body];
    
    // set the content-length
    NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [body length]];
    [request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
    
    
    [NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request queue:[NSOperationQueue currentQueue] completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response, NSData *data, NSError *error) {
        if(data.length > 0)
        {
            //success
        }
    }];

God bless you.

hi, thanks for posting the code. i am sticking with 2 questions:

1. what exactly is the object "image"
2. name=%@; filename=imageName.jpg\r\n" => if we are selecting image from device library then what will replace the "imageName.jpg"?

Thanks much for your help

Thank you 😄 This helped me a lot.

What to do in case of video ?
How to upload video with multipart?

Finally it worked, thank you for your code, I had extra "s 👯

Thank you very much!

Thanks. worked like charm.

Thanks a lot..
its working fine.

very useful!

Hi. Thanks for the example. Works well.
Im facing issues uploading multiple images using the above code. It only accepts the first image. #ios

Please help to execute this code for multiple images

What if i want to upload gif (to Giphy.com)?

Awesome! So simplistic.

Great!

Thank you, you have just saved me from using AFNetworking and/or others. I'm facing an issue now with the HTTP Body - too long when trying to upload a huge gif file. :(

@Asha149 did you find any solution?

and can we upload an array of images to server? using NSURLConnection

What if you want to post a video using multipart/form-data ?

Thanks man! You saved me...

Thank you! You saved my day