File from byte array file size

odhiambo-george · February 7, 2018, 11:19am

Greetings,

Why is it that when i upload a byte array (string) encoded as a Base64 string using POSTMAN the uploaded file is just 3KB in size but when i upload the same file from an android client using REST api the upload file size is a whooping 571KB?

Regards,
George

oleg-vyalyh · February 8, 2018, 11:58am

Hi, George.

What is your appId.
Please, provide small code snippet where you upload file.

odhiambo-george · February 8, 2018, 3:29pm

Hi Oleg,

850D233C-6AC2-244C-FFC5-ED60D85BFB00

I am making an asynchronous HTTP request to thebackendless server using RxJava and Retrofit as below

@Headers("Content-Type: text/plain")
@PUT("files/binary/photos/{fileName}?overwrite=true")
Single&lt;String&gt; uploadFileFromByteArray(@Body String base64ImageString, @Path("fileName") String fileName);

Regards,
George

oleg-vyalyh · February 9, 2018, 4:47pm

Hi, George.
I’ve tried load file to your app with curl and with Android-sdk (Backendless.Files.upload( )) – all files have the same size.
Also, i tried with simple URL/URLConnection, and i didn’t make any encode/decode operations, they are not necessary.

Also pay attention to the “Content-Type” header. It should be like in documentattion:
https://backendless.com/docs/rest/doc.html#file-upload

odhiambo-george · February 9, 2018, 5:38pm

Am using SAVE BYTE ARRAY DOCUMENTATION, just below what you sent. See attached

anton-govorushkin · February 12, 2018, 2:56pm

Hi again George,

Did you compare the actual content of both files you uploaded via Postman and Java?
P.S.: Making the call using Retrofix?

Anton

odhiambo-george · February 20, 2018, 1:45pm

Hi Anton, i succeeded getting desired file sizes using the file-upload api as opposed to saving file from byte array.

You can close the topic.

Regards,
George