Upload image with parameters in Swift

Question

I'm trying to upload an image with parameters in Swift. When I try this code, I can get the parameters but not the image

uploadFileToUrl(fotiño:UIImage){
    var foto =  UIImage(data: UIImageJPEGRepresentation(fotiño, 0.2))


    var request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL:NSURL(string: "URL"))
    request.HTTPMethod = "POST"

    var bodyData = "id_user="PARAMETERS&ETC""


    request.HTTPBody = bodyData.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding);
    request.HTTPBody = NSData.dataWithData(UIImagePNGRepresentation(foto))
    println("miraqui \(request.debugDescription)")
    var response: AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer<NSURLResponse?>=nil
    var HTTPError: NSError? = nil
    var JSONError: NSError? = nil

    var dataVal: NSData? =  NSURLConnection.sendSynchronousRequest(request, returningResponse: response, error: &HTTPError)

    if ((dataVal != nil) && (HTTPError == nil)) {
        var jsonResult = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(dataVal!, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &JSONError)

        if (JSONError != nil) {
            println("Bad JSON")
        } else {
            println("Synchronous\(jsonResult)")
        }
    } else if (HTTPError != nil) {
        println("Request failed")
    } else {
        println("No Data returned")
    }
}

edit 2:

I think that I have some problems with the path of the saved UIImage, because php tells me that the file already exist, which I think is because I send it in blank

func createRequest (#userid: String, disco: String, id_disco: String, pub: String, foto: UIImage) -> NSURLRequest {
    let param = [
        "id_user"  : userid,
        "name_discoteca"    : disco,
        "id_discoteca" : id_disco,
        "ispublic" : pub] // build your dictionary however appropriate

    let boundary = generateBoundaryString()

    let url = NSURL(string: "http....")
    let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url)
    request.HTTPMethod = "POST"
    request.timeoutInterval = 60
    request.HTTPShouldHandleCookies = false
    request.setValue("multipart/form-data; boundary=\(boundary)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
    var imagesaver = ImageSaver()

    var image = foto  // However you create/get a UIImage
    let documentsPath = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)[0] as String
    let destinationPath = documentsPath.stringByAppendingPathComponent("VipKing.jpg")
    UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image,1.0).writeToFile(destinationPath, atomically: true)


    self.saveImage(foto, withFileName: "asdasd22.jpg")


    var path = self.documentsPathForFileName("asdasd22.jpg")


    self.ViewImage.image = self.loadImageWithFileName("asdasd22.jpg")



  //  let path1 = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("asdasd22", ofType: "jpg", inDirectory: path) as String! 

    **//path1 always crash**


    println(param.debugDescription)
    println(path.debugDescription)
    println(boundary.debugDescription)




    request.HTTPBody = createBodyWithParameters(param, filePathKey: "asdasd22.jpg", paths: [path], boundary: boundary)

    println(request.debugDescription)


    return request
}

Answer 1

AlamoFire now supports Multipart:

https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire#uploading-multipartformdata

Here's a blog post with sample project that touches on using Multipart with AlamoFire.

http://www.thorntech.com/2015/07/4-essential-swift-networking-tools-for-working-with-rest-apis/

The relevant code might look something like this (assuming you're using AlamoFire and SwiftyJSON):

func createMultipart(image: UIImage, callback: Bool -> Void){
    // use SwiftyJSON to convert a dictionary to JSON
    var parameterJSON = JSON([
        "id_user": "test"
    ])
    // JSON stringify
    let parameterString = parameterJSON.rawString(encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, options: nil)
    let jsonParameterData = parameterString!.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: true)
    // convert image to binary
    let imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 0.7)
    // upload is part of AlamoFire
    upload(
        .POST,
        URLString: "http://httpbin.org/post",
        multipartFormData: { multipartFormData in
            // fileData: puts it in "files"
            multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(fileData: jsonParameterData!, name: "goesIntoFile", fileName: "json.txt", mimeType: "application/json")
            multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(fileData: imageData, name: "file", fileName: "iosFile.jpg", mimeType: "image/jpg")
            // data: puts it in "form"
            multipartFormData.appendBodyPart(data: jsonParameterData!, name: "goesIntoForm")
        },
        encodingCompletion: { encodingResult in
            switch encodingResult {
            case .Success(let upload, _, _):
                upload.responseJSON { request, response, data, error in
                    let json = JSON(data!)
                    println("json:: \(json)")
                    callback(true)
                }
            case .Failure(let encodingError):
                callback(false)
            }
        }
    )
}

let fotoImage = UIImage(named: "foto")
    createMultipart(fotoImage!, callback: { success in
    if success { }
})

Answer 2

Thank you @Rob, your code is working fine, but in my case, I am retriving image from gallary and taking name of the image by using code:

let filename = url.lastPathComponent

But this code, displaying image extension as .JPG (in capital letter), but server not accepting extensions in captital letter, so i changed my code as:

 let filename =  (path.lastPathComponent as NSString).lowercaseString

and now my code is working fine.

Thank you :)