I've got WPF application I'm writing that posts files to one of social networks.
Upload itself working just fine, but I'd like to provide some indication of how far along I am with the uploading.
I tried a bunch of ways to do this:
1) HttpWebRequest.GetStream method:
using (
var FS = File.Open(
localFilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
{
long len = FS.Length;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ProtocolVersion = HttpVersion.Version11;
request.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=--AaB03x";
//predata and postdata is two byte[] arrays, that contains
//strings for MIME file upload (defined above and is not important)
request.ContentLength = predata.Length + FS.Length + postdata.Length;
request.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = false;
using (var reqStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
reqStream.Write(predata, 0, predata.Length);
int bytesRead = 0;
int totalRead = 0;
do
{
bytesRead = FS.Read(fileData, 0, MaxContentSize);
totalRead += bytesRead;
reqStream.Write(fileData, 0, bytesRead);
reqStream.Flush(); //trying with and without this
//this part will show progress in percents
sop.prct = (int) ((100*totalRead)/len);
} while (bytesRead > 0);
reqStream.Write(postdata, 0, postdata.Length);
}
HttpWebResponse responce = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse();
using (var respStream = responce.GetResponseStream())
{
//do things
}
}
2) WebClient way (much shorter):
void UploadFile (url, localFilePath)
{
...
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.UploadProgressChanged += new UploadProgressChangedEventHandler(UploadPartDone);
client.UploadFileCompleted += new UploadFileCompletedEventHandler(UploadComplete);
client.UploadFileAsync(new Uri(url), localFilePath);
done.WaitOne();
//do things with responce, received from UploadComplete
JavaScriptSerializer jssSer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
return jssSer.Deserialize<UniversalJSONAnswer>(utf8.GetString(UploadFileResponce));
//so on...
...
}
void UploadComplete(object sender, UploadFileCompletedEventArgs e)
{
UploadFileResponce=e.Result;
done.Set();
}
void UploadPartDone(object sender, UploadProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
//this part expected to show progress
sop.prct=(int)(100*e.BytesSent/e.TotalBytesToSend);
}
3) Even TcpClient way:
using (
var FS = File.Open(
localFilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
{
long len = FS.Length;
long totalRead = 0;
using (var client = new TcpClient(urli.Host, urli.Port))
{
using (var clearstream = client.GetStream())
{
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(clearstream))
using (var reader = new StreamReader(clearstream))
{
//set progress to 0
sop.prct = 0;
// Send request headers
writer.WriteLine("POST " + urli.AbsoluteUri + " HTTP/1.1");
writer.WriteLine("Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--AaB03x");
writer.WriteLine("Host: " + urli.Host);
writer.WriteLine("Content-Length: " + (predata.Length + len + postdata.Length).ToString());
writer.WriteLine();
//some data for MIME
writer.Write(utf8.GetString(predata));
writer.Flush();
int bytesRead;
do
{
bytesRead = FS.Read(fileData, 0, MaxContentSize);
totalRead += bytesRead;
writer.BaseStream.Write(fileData, 0, bytesRead);
writer.BaseStream.Flush();
sop.prct = (int) ((100*totalRead)/len);
} while (bytesRead > 0)
writer.Write(utf8.GetString(postdata));
writer.Flush();
//read line of response and do other thigs...
respStr = reader.ReadLine();
...
}
}
}
}
In all cases the file was successfully sent to the server.
But always progress looks like this: for a few seconds it runs from 0 to 100 and then waits until file actually uploading (about 5 minutes - file is 400MB).
So I think the data from a file is buffered somewhere and I'm tracking not uploading, but buffering data. And then must wait until it's uploaded.
My questions are:
1) Is there any way to track actual uploading data? That the method Stream.Write() or Flush() (which as I read somewhere, does not work for NetworkStream) did not return until it receives confirmation from the server that the TCP packets received.
2) Or can I deny buffering (AllowWriteStreamBUffering for HttpWebRequest doesn't work)?
3) And does it make sense to go further "down" and try with Sockets?
updated:
To avoid any doubts in the way of progress displaying on UI, I rewrote the code to log a file.
so, here is code:
using (var LogStream=File.Open("C:\123.txt",FileMode.Create,FileAccess.Write,FileShare.Read))
using (var LogWriter=new StreamWriter(LogStream))
using (var FS = File.Open(localFilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
{
long len = FS.Length;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Timeout = 7200000; //2 hour timeout
request.Method = "POST";
request.ProtocolVersion = HttpVersion.Version11;
request.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=--AaB03x";
//predata and postdata is two byte[] arrays, that contains
//strings for MIME file upload (defined above and is not important)
request.ContentLength = predata.Length + FS.Length + postdata.Length;
request.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = false;
LogWriter.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("o") + " Start write into request stream. ");
using (var reqStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
reqStream.Write(predata, 0, predata.Length);
int bytesRead = 0;
int totalRead = 0;
do
{
bytesRead = FS.Read(fileData, 0, MaxContentSize);
totalRead += bytesRead;
reqStream.Write(fileData, 0, bytesRead);
reqStream.Flush(); //trying with and without this
//sop.prct = (int) ((100*totalRead)/len); //this part will show progress in percents
LogWriter.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("o") + " totalRead= " + totalRead.ToString() + " / " + len.ToString());
} while (bytesRead > 0);
reqStream.Write(postdata, 0, postdata.Length);
}
LogWriter.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("o") + " All sent!!! Waiting for responce... ");
LogWriter.Flush();
HttpWebResponse responce = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse();
LogWriter.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("o") + " Responce received! ");
using (var respStream = responce.GetResponseStream())
{
if (respStream == null) return null;
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(respStream))
{
string resp = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
JavaScriptSerializer jssSer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
return jssSer.Deserialize<UniversalJSONAnswer>(resp);
}
}
}
and here is result (I cut the middle):
2011-11-19T22:00:54.5964408+04:00 Start write into request stream.
2011-11-19T22:00:54.6404433+04:00 totalRead= 1048576 / 410746880
2011-11-19T22:00:54.6424434+04:00 totalRead= 2097152 / 410746880
2011-11-19T22:00:54.6434435+04:00 totalRead= 3145728 / 410746880
2011-11-19T22:00:54.6454436+04:00 totalRead= 4194304 / 410746880
2011-11-19T22:00:54.6464437+04:00 totalRead= 5242880 / 410746880
2011-11-19T22:00:54.6494438+04:00 totalRead= 6291456 / 410746880
.......
2011-11-19T22:00:55.3434835+04:00 totalRead= 408944640 / 410746880
2011-11-19T22:00:55.3434835+04:00 totalRead= 409993216 / 410746880
2011-11-19T22:00:55.3464837+04:00 totalRead= 410746880 / 410746880
2011-11-19T22:00:55.3464837+04:00 totalRead= 410746880 / 410746880
2011-11-19T22:00:55.3464837+04:00 All sent!!! Waiting for responce...
2011-11-19T22:07:23.0616597+04:00 Responce received!
as you can see program thinks that it uploaded ~400MB for about 2 seconds. And after 7 minutes file actually uploads and I receive responce.
updated again:
Seems to this is happening under WIndows 7 (not shure about x64 or x86).
When I run my code uder XP everything works perfectly and progress is shown absolute correctly
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