Uploading video using URL swift Alamofire

Question

I need to upload a video to server using alamofire. The user selects the video and I get URL in didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo successfully as follows:

func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
        picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
        if let pickedVideo = info[UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL] as? URL {
            print(pickedVideo)
        }
    }

And then I upload the video using the following code:

Alamofire.upload( multipartFormData: { multipartFormData in
            multipartFormData.append(videoUrl, withName: "video", fileName: "video.mp4", mimeType: "video/mp4")

        }, to: url, encodingCompletion: { encodingResult in
            switch encodingResult {
            case .success(let upload, _, _):
                upload.responseJSON { response in
                    if let JSON = response.result.value as? NSDictionary {
                        completion(true)
                    } else {
                        completion(false)
                        print(response)
                    }
                }
            case .failure(let encodingError):
                print(encodingError)
                completion(false)
            }
        })

It enters in the failure block, and the following error displays:

multipartEncodingFailed(Alamofire.AFError.MultipartEncodingFailureReason.bodyPartFileNotReachableWithError(atURL: file:/private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/C662AB0E-6A4F-40FB-9949-7F0A5AA2BA49/tmp/52C86F07-5DCC-413A-9F8C-71BBF33F793C.MOV -- file:///, error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “52C86F07-5DCC-413A-9F8C-71BBF33F793C.MOV” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file.

Video can't upload via URL, convert it to `Data` object and then upload it. — Rocky, Apr 04 '18 at 11:12

Rocky · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-24T10:23:11.470

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You are trying to upload video by URL, that is not possible, in multipartFormData need data to upload not URL, so firstly convert it to Data then upload it.

Function for show imagePickerController only for Video's:

func showImagePicker(){
        let picker = UIImagePickerController()
        picker.delegate = self
        picker.mediaTypes = [kUTTypeMovie as String]
        self.present(picker, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }

UIImagePickerControllerDelegate function, that work after select video:

func imagePickerController(_ picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : Any]) {
            picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)

            guard let videoUrl = info[UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL] as? URL else {
                return
            }
            do {
                let data = try Data(contentsOf: videoUrl, options: .mappedIfSafe)
                print(data)
//  here you can see data bytes of selected video, this data object is upload to server by multipartFormData upload
            } catch  {
            }
        }

edited May 24 '19 at 10:23

answered Apr 04 '18 at 11:25

Rocky

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the message displaying is "The file “2C6D0E52-482B-4D8E-B3B7-F8B9CDF3E858.MOV” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." – Muneeb Rehman Apr 04 '18 at 11:31
Yes now i am converting my url to data object. – Muneeb Rehman Apr 04 '18 at 11:45
When converting url to data, the data is nil. I think url is not being generated properly – Muneeb Rehman Apr 04 '18 at 11:46
Data object is empty that is why I am unable to upload it. – Muneeb Rehman Apr 04 '18 at 14:13
I think url is not correct, that is why program is unable to convert url into data object, hence returning data object as nil. I am getting such a url: file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/B5BF6C95-3708-4A94-9485-0AE01F0AFF31/tmp/C81EE7B5-B8BA-4915-8851-FCD33B93703A.MOV – Muneeb Rehman Apr 05 '18 at 08:06
what is output of `print(data)` statement? – Rocky Apr 05 '18 at 09:05
Issue was at my end. Thanks @Rocky for your help. – Muneeb Rehman Apr 13 '18 at 07:31
@MuneebRehman What was the issue. ? I am facing the same problem – Raghav Chopra Oct 04 '18 at 05:22
Why `as NSString as String`? – user28434'mstep May 24 '19 at 09:48

abhimuralidharan · Answer 2 · 2019-05-24T09:45:42.993

With Alamofire 5 , you can do this to upload a video to server:

 import Alamofire

 func uploadVideo(videoUrl: URL) { // local video file path..
        let timestamp = NSDate().timeIntervalSince1970 // just for some random name.

        AF.upload(multipartFormData: { (multipartFormData) in
            multipartFormData.append(videoUrl, withName: "image", fileName: "\(timestamp).mp4", mimeType: "\(timestamp)/mp4")
        }, to: endPoint!  ).responseJSON { (response) in
            debugPrint(response)
        }
    }

Note: endPoint is a string . Example: http://172.10.3.7:5000/uploadvideo

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 02 '22 at 21:29

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.responseJSON depreciated use .responseData instead

example: Update responseJSON to responseDecodable in Swift

answered Feb 02 '22 at 21:29

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