Could not find class 'org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.Filebody', referenced from method

Question

What I'm trying to do is to send a picture to a web server. When I call a method in my Android project I get the following error: could not find class 'org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.Filebody', referenced from method com.example.tc.Send.send.

This happens eventhough I've got the following imports:

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntity;
import org.apache.http.entity.mime.content.FileBody;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

This is what the class looks like in which the method lies:

public class Send {
public Send(){
}

public static String send(String path) throws Exception {
    String filePath = path;
    String svar;

    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    try {
        HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("path to web server"); 
        FileBody pic = new FileBody(new File(filePath)); 
        MultipartEntity requestEntity = new MultipartEntity(); 
        requestEntity.addPart("file", pic);

        httppost.setEntity(requestEntity);
        System.out.println("executing request " + httppost.getRequestLine());
        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
        HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
        System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
        System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());

        ByteArrayOutputStream outstream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        response.getEntity().writeTo(outstream);
        byte [] responseBody = outstream.toByteArray();
        svar = new String(responseBody);
        System.out.println(svar);

    } finally {
        try {
            httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
        } 
        catch (Exception ignore) {
        }
    }
    return svar;
}
}

Can anyone see what the problem is?

Solution 1

Add these two dependency

compile "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.2.4"
compile "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:4.3"

Solution 2

You need to have httpmime-4.0.jar in your classpath. You may (i guess you do) have this jar into your project, but is it inside your application during runtime? If i understand it correctly you get this from the android application. You need to have this jar inthe classpath of your android.

Solution 3

• Add dependency :

  compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4.4'