How To Upload File/Image Using Multipart/Form-Data From Client Side To Server? – Client Side (Part 2)

In this post, i am going to explain how to send mutipart/form-data from client side.
A HTTP multipart request helps to send files/images and data over to a HTTP server. It is a very common approach used by browsers and any other HTTP clients to upload files to the server.

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Http;
using Xamarin.Forms;

 namespace ClientApi
{
    public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
    {
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

         /// <summary>
        /// Purpose: Post multipart data i.e. image or file
        /// </summary>
        protected async void SaveAttachment(byte[] attachment, string fileName, string attachmentType, string orgFileName)
        {
            try
            {
                using (var httpClient = new HttpClient())
                {
                    MultipartFormDataContent form = new MultipartFormDataContent();

                     form.Add(new StringContent(attachmentType), "AttachmentType");
                    form.Add(new StringContent(orgFileName), "FileName");

                     if (attachment != null)
                        form.Add(new ByteArrayContent(attachment, 0, attachment.Count()), "ByteData", fileName);

                     HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.PostAsync("http://yoursiteurl/UploadFileOrImage", form);

                     string message = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;

                     if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine(message);
                    }
                    else
                        await DisplayAlert("", message, "OK");
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                await DisplayAlert("", ex.Message, "OK");
            }
        }
    }
}
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