How to send Image or file to the external API using HTTP Client?-CodePudding

I have an API to save images and files

this is the code to save the image request from the API

$file = $request->file('gambar');
$fileName = $file->getClientOriginalName();
$file->storeAs('images/berita', $fileName);

$berita = new Berita;
$berita->judul = $request->judul;
$berita->kategori_id = $request->kategori_id;
$berita->isi = $request->isi;
$berita->gambar = $fileName;
$berita->tgl = $request->tgl;
$berita->user_id = $request->user_id;
$berita->save();

return response()->json([
    'message' => 'Data berita Added Successfully!',
    'Added berita' => $berita
], Response::HTTP_OK);

I already try the API in postman, and everything went well, image sucessfully uploaded.

Then on the client side, I'm using HTTP Client from Laravel to POST the data to the API. And here's the code.

$Berita = Http::withToken('xxx')
      ->attach('attachment', file_get_contents($request->file('gambar')))
      ->post('https://api.xxx.my.id/xxx', [
           'judul' => $request->judul,
           'kategori_id' => $request->kategori_id,
           'isi' => $request->isi,
           'gambar' => file_get_contents($request->file('gambar')),
           'tgl' => $request->tgl,
           'user_id' => $request->user_id
      ]);

return $Berita;

All the data send successfully, except the gambar which contains the image that i sent. It says that in my API validation.

The gambar must be a file of type: jpeg, jpg, png.

It thought that means the image that i send is sent as a string, so it didn't receive it as a file.

By the way, here's the Laravel documentation about HTTP Client: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/http-client#multi-part-requests

Does anyone knows how to correctly using it? I think i've misused it.

CodePudding user response：

I think there is problem with attachment.

  return Http::withToken('xxx')
          ->attach('gambar', file_get_contents($request->file('gambar')), , 'gambar.png')
          ->post('https://api.xxx.my.id/xxx', [
               'judul' => $request->judul,
               'kategori_id' => $request->kategori_id,
               'isi' => $request->isi,
               'tgl' => $request->tgl,
               'user_id' => $request->user_id
          ]);

return Http::withToken('xxx')
      ->attach('gambar', $request->file('gambar'), 'gambar.png')
      ->post('https://api.xxx.my.id/xxx', [
           'judul' => $request->judul,
           'kategori_id' => $request->kategori_id,
           'isi' => $request->isi,
           'tgl' => $request->tgl,
           'user_id' => $request->user_id
      ]);

CodePudding user response：

This is because the server cannot read your data.

You should send the data using the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type, you can achieve this as Laravel documentation says:

$response = Http::asForm()->post('http://example.com/users', [
    'name' => 'Sara',
    'role' => 'Privacy Consultant',
]);