I would like to do the next curl request (php) using Delphi 2010 and Indy10 (IdHttp component), but I'm not sure if It could be done. I can do GET, PUT and POST (CRUD) with IdHttp component, but in this case I don't know how to implement it. I'm not interested in how to simulate curl commands with Delphi, but how to implement this specific POST to upload a file.
$url = 'http://example.com';
$key = 'YOUR_GENERATED_API_ACCESS_KEY';
$psProductId = 19;
$urlImage = $url.'/api/images/products/'.$psProductId.'/';
//Here you set the path to the image you need to upload
$image_path = '/path/to/the/image.jpg';
$image_mime = 'image/jpg';
$args['image'] = new CurlFile($image_path, $image_mime);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $urlImage);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $key.':');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if (200 == $httpCode) {
echo 'Product image was successfully created.';
}
There are generally two ways to upload a file with HTTP:
a PUT
request with the file data as the HTTP body.
a POST
request using the multipart/form-data
media type, where the HTTP body is a series of MIME parts, with the file data in one part, and usually additional fields in other parts to describe the file, or provide extra input.
To send a multipart/form-data
encoded POST
request with Indy, you need to use the overloaded version of the TIdHTTP.Post()
method that takes a TIdMultipartFormDataStream
object as input. You can then add your file(s) (and other field(s)) to the TIdMultipartFormDataStream
as needed.