Title: Media Upload
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Media Upload

 *  Resolved [crea8xion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyouthace/)
 * (@eyouthace)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-9/)
 * Hi Authors,
 * I got this problem when uploading images on server..
 * {
    “code”: “rest_upload_unknown_error”, “message”: “File is empty. Please upload
   something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being 
   disabled in your php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize
   in php.ini.”, “data”: { “status”: 500 } }
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 *  Plugin Author [Daniel Bachhuber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielbachhuber/)
 * (@danielbachhuber)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-9/#post-6821007)
 * Can you share the request you’re making? From the error message, it seems like
   the file isn’t being included.
 *  Thread Starter [crea8xion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyouthace/)
 * (@eyouthace)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-9/#post-6821020)
 * Hi Daniel,
 * I use another method using OkHttp,
 * This one produces
 * E/Response: Response{protocol=http/1.1, code=400, message=Bad Request, url=”urlwithtoken”
 * RequestBody requestBody = new MultipartBuilder()
    .type(MultipartBuilder.FORM).
   addPart( Headers.of(“Content-Disposition”, “form-data; name=\”title\””), RequestBody.
   create(null, q[idx])) .addPart( Headers.of(“Content-Disposition”, “form-data;
   name=\”image\””), RequestBody.create(MEDIA_TYPE_JPG, sourceFile)) .build();
 *  Thread Starter [crea8xion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyouthace/)
 * (@eyouthace)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-9/#post-6821021)
 * While this one is 500
 * MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse(“multipart/form-data; boundary=—011000010111000001101001”);
   
   RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, “—–011000010111000001101001\
   r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\”fileName\”; filename=”+ sourceFile 
   +”\r\nContent-Type: image/jpeg\r\n\r\n\r\n—–011000010111000001101001–“); Request
   request = new Request.Builder() .url(serverUri) .post(body) .addHeader(“content-
   type”, “multipart/form-data; boundary=—011000010111000001101001”) .addHeader(“
   content-disposition”, String.valueOf(sourceFile)) .addHeader(“cache-control”,“
   no-cache”) .build();
 *  Thread Starter [crea8xion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyouthace/)
 * (@eyouthace)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-9/#post-6821022)
 * btw
 * I’m using postman to generate the the 2nd code which is ok.
 * I can upload image using PostMan.
 *  Thread Starter [crea8xion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyouthace/)
 * (@eyouthace)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-9/#post-6821107)
 * Hi All,
 *  I solve this problem and has nothing to do with wp rest api,
    with the beta-
   2.8 just release I can now upload image to the server using the media endpoints…
 *  Below is the code I used with okHttp which you can compile via
    gradle >>> compile‘
   com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.6.0’
 *  OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
    MediaType MEDIA_TYPE_JPG = MediaType.
   parse(“image/jpg”);
 *  File sourceFile = new File(filepath);
 *  Uri uri = new Uri.Builder()
    .scheme(protocol) .authority(domain) .path(“wp-
   json/wp/v2/media”) .appendQueryParameter(“access_token”, accessToken) .build();
 *  String serverUri = String.valueOf(uri);
 *  String[] image = filepath.split(“/”);
    int idx = image .length – 1;
 *  RequestBody requestBody = new MultipartBuilder()
    .type(MultipartBuilder.FORM).
   addFormDataPart(“file”, image [idx], RequestBody.create(MEDIA_TYPE_JPG, sourceFile)).
   build();
 *  Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .url(serverUri) .post(requestBody) .
   build();
 *  Response response = null;
 *  try {
    response = client.newCall(request).execute(); } catch (IOException e){
   e.printStackTrace(); }
 * Hope this helps…

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-upload-9/#post-6821107)
 * Status: resolved