How to upload video as multipart request using OkHTTP? [ Android ]

Question

I need to upload video to an API, and this is how I've implemented the OKHTTP request:

 private void makeRequest(Uri uri)
{
    pr1.show();

    try
    {
        String path = uri.toString();
        Log.e("PATH",path);
        File file = new File(new URI(path));
        try {

            RequestBody requestBody = new MultipartBody.Builder()
                    .setType(MultipartBody.FORM)
                    .addFormDataPart("file", file.getName(),
                            RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("video/mp4"), file))
                    .addFormDataPart("title", "damn")
                    .build();

            Request request = new Request.Builder()
                    .url(URL)
                    .header("SproutVideo-Api-Key","XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX")
                    .post(requestBody)
                    .build();

            client.newCall(request)
                    .enqueue(new Callback() {
                        @Override
                        public void onFailure(final Call call, IOException e)
                        {

                        }

                        @Override
                        public void onResponse(Call call, final Response response) throws IOException {
                            String res = response.body().string();
                            Log.e("SUCCESS",""+res);
                            pr1.dismiss();


                        }
                    });


        } catch (Exception ex) {
            // Handle the error
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e){}

}

However, I am unable to complete a successful request.

Log at this line Log.e("PATH",path); shows :

content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/video%3A75611

And when I add a line break at this line : client.newCall(request) , and run the debugger, the app doesn't end at any point, so I assume the request is not getting completed. What is possibly causing this? Is this the correct way of implementation?

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with the OkHTTP library, but one thing I noticed that will cause a problem is that the field for the video should be source_video , not file as outlined here .

You might also want to add some logging to your catch statements to see what, if anything might be failing silently since you seem to be ignoring any potential failures.