uploading a file along with its actual contents in JAVA

Question

 I am trying to upload a file to healthvault. I am able to upload only the "filename, size and content-type" but unable to upload the actual contents.

I am using JAVA SDK R1.3.1 . successfully ran the weight app.

Could you help me in getting the contents also up to healthvault.

Answer 1

I thought I already answered you in this thread. You may want to find the equivalent calls in Java as the sample code given was in C#.

Answer 2

Thanks santhosh for your reply.

I am unable to get the equivalent calls in JAVA. As you mentioned this line your code,

 PersonInfo.SelectedRecord.NewItem(file); , could you tell me its JAVA call? Its not there in the SDK that I have. I am able to get the Content-Type up to the healthvault.

It would be grateful if you could help me in this issue.

Answer 3

Have you downloaded the Java SDK from here and looked at the sample(s) that come along with it? There is a sample describing how to put a Thing type in HealthVault. You can find the Type IDs of Things here.

Answer 4

hi,

Firstly thank you for replying .

Yes santhosh i downloaded the Java SDK from there itself.

I rean the weight application successfully and similarily tried and successfully put blood glucose data up to the healhvault.

But when i try to upload file in a similar approach i get only "filename,file size and content-type" up to healthvault not the contents.

I tried including "data-other" section to which i pass the encoded data. But it throws me an error saying ("data-other" section is an invalid child tag of the type File) . it is because the File schema provides only filename,file size and content-type.

Could you tell me if my approach is wrong. or what else am I supposed to do.

Preferably a sample example code in JAVA would help.

Thank you.

Answer 5

Not sure where you are using File as a XML tag. This is what it should look like (replace the place holders with actual value):

	<info>
		<thing>
			<thing-id/>
			<type-id>bd0403c5-4ae2-4b0e-a8db-1888678e4528</type-id>
			<thing-state>Active</thing-state>
			<data-xml>
				<file>
					<name>FILE NAME HERE</name>
					<size>SIZE HERE</size>
					<content-type/>
				</file>
			</data-xml>
			<data-other content-type="TYPE HERE" content-encoding="base64">BASE64 ENCODED CONTENT HERE</data-other>
		</thing>
	</info>

Answer 6

hi Santhosh,

Thank you for replying. I shal surely try this and let you know if its working.

Answer 7

Hi Santhosh

Thank you so much!! I am now able to upload the encoded file upto the healthvault and I can download the file too.

Mistake that I was making was that I was including <data-other> in side <file> tag. now I am clear as to where to include <data-other>.

Thank you once again .

I have another question. Will the downloaded file be in encoded format. If yes then how do we download it (in decoded form,i.e. to get back the original file).