Uploading video through http - ios

Question

So this is my attempt:
I first create an "Image picker" which allows me to take the video:
- (IBAction)takeVideo:(UIButton *)sender {
UIImagePickerController *picker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
picker.delegate = self;
picker.allowsEditing = YES;
picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
picker.mediaTypes = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects: (NSString *) kUTTypeMovie, nil];
[self presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:NULL];
}
- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info {
self.movieURL = info[UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL];
[picker dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:NULL];
}
- (void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker {
[picker dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:NULL];
}
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
self.movieController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] init];
self.movieController.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
[self.movieController setContentURL:self.movieURL];
[self.movieController.view setFrame:CGRectMake (15, 125, 292, 390)];
self.movieController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[self.view addSubview:self.movieController.view];
[self.movieController play];
NSString *myString = [self.movieURL absoluteString];
//THE DATA IS RETURNING 0 :
NSData *videoData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:myString];
NSLog(#"%#",[NSByteCountFormatter stringFromByteCount:videoData.length countStyle:NSByteCountFormatterCountStyleFile]);
[self setImageDataToSend:videoData];
}
- (void)moviePlayBackDidFinish:(NSNotification *)notification {
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]removeObserver:self name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:nil];
[self.movieController stop];
[self.movieController.view removeFromSuperview];
self.movieController = nil;
}
I am not receiving any data from the URL though?
I then try and upload it to my site:
-(IBAction)uploadvideotowebsite:(id)sender{
//you can use any string instead "com.mycompany.myqueue"
dispatch_queue_t backgroundQueue = dispatch_queue_create("com.mcompany.myqueue", 0);
//turn on
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible:YES];
dispatch_async(backgroundQueue, ^{
PFUser *user = [PFUser currentUser];
NSString * url = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://******.co.uk/****/imageupload.php"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request=[NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
NSString *boundary = #"---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449";
NSMutableData *body = [[NSMutableData alloc]init];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:#"\r\n--%#\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSString *String = #"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"image\"; filename=\"";
NSString *String2 = #"video";
NSString *String3 = #".MOV\"\r\n";
NSString *connection1 = [String stringByAppendingString: String2];
NSString *done = [connection1 stringByAppendingString: String3];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:done] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[#"Content-Type: audio/basic\r\n\r\n" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:_imageDataToSend];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:#"\r\n--%#--\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[request setHTTPBody:body];
NSString *contentType = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"multipart/form-data; boundary=%#",boundary];
[request addValue:contentType forHTTPHeaderField: #"Content-Type"];
//Send the Request
NSData* returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest: request
returningResponse: nil error: nil];
//serialize to JSON
if (!returnData){
return; // or handle no connection error here
}else{
NSDictionary *result = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:returnData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:nil];
//parsing JSON
bool success = [result[#"success"] boolValue];
if(success){
NSLog(#"Success=%#",result[#"msg"]);
//[self performSegueWithIdentifier:#"toshow" sender:self];
}else{
NSLog(#"Fail=%#",result[#"msg"]);
}
}
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
//turn off
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible:NO];
});
});
}
I am receiving no errors. But I am receiving a file of size 0kb on my site.
Can anybody explain why I am getting no data from the video?

Answer 1

Can anybody explain why I am getting no data from the video?
Sure, here's your mistake:
NSString *myString = [self.movieURL absoluteString];
should be path
NSString *myString = [self.movieURL path];
NSData *videoData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:myString];
NSLog(#"%#",[NSByteCountFormatter stringFromByteCount:videoData.length countStyle:NSByteCountFormatterCountStyleFile]);