Ionic 3 File-Transport multipart/form-data - http

Question

i am actually working on a mobile app in ionic v3 with angular5
The goal is to be able to take a picture or choose from existing ones and then upload it to the server. The first part is done, but i am struggling with the upload.
The api needs multipart/form-data which must consist of two requests. First with text part and second is the image.
Is there any solution for this?

Answer 1

This is what I have done for similar requirement
takePhoto() {
this.camera.getPicture({
quality: 100,
destinationType: this.camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
sourceType: this.camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA,
encodingType: this.camera.EncodingType.PNG,
saveToPhotoAlbum: true
}).then(imageData => {
this.myPhoto = imageData;
this.uploadPhoto(imageData);
}, error => {
this.functions.showAlert("Error", JSON.stringify(error));
});
}
selectPhoto(): void {
this.camera.getPicture({
sourceType: this.camera.PictureSourceType.PHOTOLIBRARY,
destinationType: this.camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
quality: 100,
encodingType: this.camera.EncodingType.PNG,
}).then(imageData => {
this.myPhoto = imageData;
this.uploadPhoto(imageData);
}, error => {
this.functions.showAlert("Error", JSON.stringify(error));
});
}
private uploadPhoto(imageFileUri: any): void {
this.file.resolveLocalFilesystemUrl(imageFileUri)
.then(entry => (<FileEntry>entry).file(file => this.readFile(file)))
.catch(err => console.log(err));
}
private readFile(file: any) {
const reader = new FileReader();
reader.onloadend = () => {
const formData = new FormData();
const imgBlob = new Blob([reader.result], { type: file.type });
formData.append('evaluationID', this.currentEvaluation.evaluationId);
formData.append('standardID', this.currentEvaluation.id);
formData.append('score', this.currentEvaluation.score);
formData.append('comment', this.currentEvaluation.comment);
formData.append('file', imgBlob, file.name);
this.saveStandard(formData);
};
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
}
And here is code for provider
saveStandard(receivedStandardInfo:any){
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
this.http.post(apiSaveStandard,receivedStandardInfo)
.subscribe(res => {
resolve(res);
}, (err) => {
console.log(err);
reject(err);
});
}).catch(error => { console.log('caught', error.message); });
}