Uploading images using Apache HTTPComponents (HTTPClient, MultipartEntityBuilder)

Imageuploader.java

//The following is in snippet form.
//It shows 2 ways to upload files, the first is the cannonical way, if you have the image on disk
//the second is a way to upload it without having to write a modified image to disk (in this instance, a cropped image)

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPut;
import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
import org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntityBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;

private CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.createDefault();

private void reportImage(File file) throws IOException
{
    URI putUri;
    try {
        putUri = this.preparePutURI(file.getName());
    } catch (URISyntaxException e){
        throw new IOException("Problem making the uri to send", e);
    }

    HttpPut httpPut = new HttpPut(putUri);
    try {
        MultipartEntityBuilder mpeBuilder = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();

        mpeBuilder.addBinaryBody("image", file);

        HttpEntity content = mpeBuilder.build();

        httpPut.setEntity(content);
        client.execute(httpPut);
    } finally {
        httpPut.reset();
    }
}

private void reportCroppedImage(File imageFile, Rectangle rect) throws IOException
{
	URI putUri;
	try{
		putUri = this.preparePutURI(imageFile.getName());
	}catch (URISyntaxException e) {
		throw new IOException("Problem making the uri to send", e);
	}

	HttpPut httpPut = new HttpPut(putUri);
	try {
		MultipartEntityBuilder mpeBuilder = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();

		BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(imageFile);
		BufferedImage croppedImage = image.getSubimage(rect.x, rect.y, rect.width, rect.height);
		
		
		ByteArrayOutputStream croppedJPG = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
		ImageIO.write(croppedImage, PostProductionHandler.INTERMEDIATE_FILE_FORMAT, croppedJPG);
		byte[] croppedJPGForTransfer = croppedJPG.toByteArray();

                //the following line makes this identical to adding a file to body
		mpeBuilder.addBinaryBody("image", croppedJPGForTransfer, ContentType.DEFAULT_BINARY, "file");

		HttpEntity content = mpeBuilder.build();
		httpPut.setEntity(content);
		client.execute(httpPut);
	}
	finally         {
		httpPut.reset();
	}
}

private URI preparePutURI(String reportingName) throws URISyntaxException
{
    //makes a URI
}