I have a JSF 2.0 application running under GlassFish 3.1.1, and I wish to use the new FileUpload component in PrimeFaces 3.0.1, which requires that form data be encoded as multipart/form-data, as in:
<h:form id="quoteform" enctype="multipart/form-data">
However, as soon as I add the above enctype attribute to my form, it no longer works - the bean methods tied to my submit and cancel buttons are never invoked.
I did find a reference to an issue with Mojarra (part of GlassFish I believe) and multipart/form-data encoding, but it's almost two years old - certainly it must have been addressed by now I figure. Is there something else I need to do to use this type of encoding under GlassFish, or something that needs to be updated? And if there is a known issue remaining, what is the culprit?
There is a regression in the current Glassfish 3.1.2 b23, that was introduced as a fix to some previous bug, so I think its still valid.
Details of the probable cause are below and in the glassfish issue
ticket http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-18444 but it can be
summarised by this other gf 3.1.2 user comment "I'm currently
experiencing this with the Magnolia CMS (http://www.magnolia-cms.com/)
where every single form stopped working in glassfish 3.1.2 with the
following exception..."
I deployed a 3.1 version locally of glassfish and I have tested that
the readLine() problem is not there with form multipart, so would
suggest reverting to the 3.1 archived version of glassfish instead of
3.1.2 b23.
http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-18444
"In glassfish 3.1 this
used to work and print out the form data (the content of the
InputStream could still be used after calling getParameter()). This
has changed in glassfish 3.1.2 probably because of the changes for
GLASSFISH-16740.
These changes will cause major problems in web applications that use
multipart formdata, but do not yet use the getParts() method to
retrieve the data, but some proprietary method. Any call to
getParameter() before the files are parsed will cause the parsing of
the multipart formdata to fail. I'm currently experiencing this with
the Magnolia CMS (http://www.magnolia-cms.com/) where every single
form stopped working in glassfish 3.1.2 with the following exception:"
it seems that the issue is related to these open issues on the
deployed GLASSFISH 3.1.2;
http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-18453
http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-18444
http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-16740
"Incompatible breaking changes to getParameter() / getPart()" Affects
Version/s: 3.1.2_b23
So this is affecting any forms in the site that have file upload
multipart form components. I can replicate this problem locally on a
glassfish 3.1.2_b23.
