I am making a database for video games, each containing elements like name, genre, and and image of the game. Is it possible to put images into a json object for the db? If not is there a way around this?
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To upload files directly to Mongo DB you can make use of Grid FS. Although I will suggest you to upload the file anywhere in file system and put the image's url in the JSON object for every entry and then when you call the data for specific object you can call for the image using URL.
Tell me which backend technology are you using? I can give more suggestions based on that.
public class UploadToServer extends Activity {
TextView messageText;
Button uploadButton;
int serverResponseCode = 0;
ProgressDialog dialog = null;
String upLoadServerUri = null;
/********** File Path *************/
final String uploadFilePath = "/mnt/sdcard/";
final String uploadFileName = "Quotes.jpg";
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_upload_to_server);
uploadButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.uploadButton);
messageText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.messageText);
messageText.setText("Uploading file path :- '/mnt/sdcard/"
+ uploadFileName + "'");
/************* Php script path ****************/
upLoadServerUri = "http://192.1.1.11/hhhh/UploadToServer.php";
uploadButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
dialog = ProgressDialog.show(UploadToServer.this, "",
"Uploading file...", true);
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
messageText.setText("uploading started.....");
}
});
uploadFile(uploadFilePath + "" + uploadFileName);
}
}).start();
}
});
}
public int uploadFile(String sourceFileUri) {
String fileName = sourceFileUri;
HttpURLConnection connection = null;
DataOutputStream dos = null;
String lineEnd = "\r\n";
String twoHyphens = "--";
String boundary = "*****";
int bytesRead, bytesAvailable, bufferSize;
byte[] buffer;
int maxBufferSize = 1 * 1024 * 1024;
File sourceFile = new File(sourceFileUri);
if (!sourceFile.isFile()) {
dialog.dismiss();
Log.e("uploadFile", "Source File not exist :" + uploadFilePath + ""
+ uploadFileName);
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
messageText.setText("Source File not exist :"
+ uploadFilePath + "" + uploadFileName);
}
});
return 0;
} else {
try {
// open a URL connection to the Servlet
FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(
sourceFile);
URL url = new URL(upLoadServerUri);
// Open a HTTP connection to the URL
connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setDoInput(true); // Allow Inputs
connection.setDoOutput(true); // Allow Outputs
connection.setUseCaches(false); // Don't use a Cached Copy
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Connection", "Keep-Alive");
connection.setRequestProperty("ENCTYPE", "multipart/form-data");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"multipart/form-data;boundary=" + boundary);
connection.setRequestProperty("uploaded_file", fileName);
dos = new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd);
// dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"uploaded_file\";filename=\""
// + fileName + "\"" + lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: post-data; name=uploadedfile;filename="
+ URLEncoder.encode(fileName, "UTF-8") + lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);
// create a buffer of maximum size
bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
buffer = new byte[bufferSize];
// read file and write it into form...
bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
while (bytesRead > 0) {
dos.write(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
bytesAvailable = fileInputStream.available();
bufferSize = Math.min(bytesAvailable, maxBufferSize);
bytesRead = fileInputStream.read(buffer, 0, bufferSize);
}
// send multipart form data necesssary after file data...
dos.writeBytes(lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + twoHyphens + lineEnd);
// Responses from the server (code and message)
int serverResponseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
String serverResponseMessage = connection.getResponseMessage();
Log.i("uploadFile", "HTTP Response is : "
+ serverResponseMessage + ": " + serverResponseCode);
if (serverResponseCode == 200) {
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
String msg = "File Upload Completed.\n\n See uploaded file here : \n\n"
+ " http://www.androidexample.com/media/uploads/"
+ uploadFileName;
messageText.setText(msg);
Toast.makeText(UploadToServer.this,
"File Upload Complete.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
.show();
}
});
}
// close the streams //
fileInputStream.close();
dos.flush();
dos.close();
} catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
dialog.dismiss();
ex.printStackTrace();
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
messageText
.setText("MalformedURLException Exception : check script url.");
Toast.makeText(UploadToServer.this,
"MalformedURLException", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
.show();
}
});
Log.e("Upload file to server", "error: " + ex.getMessage(), ex);
} catch (Exception e) {
dialog.dismiss();
e.printStackTrace();
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
messageText.setText("Got Exception : see logcat ");
Toast.makeText(UploadToServer.this,
"Got Exception : see logcat ",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
Log.e("Upload file to server Exception",
"Exception : " + e.getMessage(), e);
}
dialog.dismiss();
return serverResponseCode;
} // End else block
}
PHP File
<?php
$target_path = "./Upload/";
$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded";
} else {
echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
}
?>
The JSON format can contain only those types of value:
An image is of the type "binary" which is none of those. So you can't directly insert an image into JSON. What you can do is convert the image to a textual representation which can then be used as a normal string.
The most common way to achieve that is with what's called base64. Basically, instead of encoding it as 1 and 0s, it uses a range of 64 characters which makes the textual representation of it more compact. So for example the number '64' in binary is represented as 1000000, while in base64 it's simply one character: =.
There are many ways to encode your image in base64 depending on if you want to do it in the browser or not.
Note that if you're developing a web application, it will be way more efficient to store images separately in binary form, and store paths to those images in your JSON or elsewhere. That also allows your client's browser to cache the images.
Use data URL scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
In this case you use that string directly in html : <img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBOR....">
Source: Stackoverflow.com