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How to upload files to server using JSP/Servlet?
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Is there any convenient way to read and parse data from incoming request.
E.g client initiate post request
URLConnection connection = new URL(url).openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setRequestProperty(\"Content-Type\", \"multipart/form-data; boundary=\" + boundary);
PrintWriter writer = null;
try {
OutputStream output = connection.getOutputStream();
writer = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(output, charset), true); // true = autoFlush, important!
// Send normal param.
writer.println(\"--\" + boundary);
writer.println(\"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\\\"param\\\"\");
writer.println(\"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\" + charset);
writer.println();
writer.println(param);
I’m not able to get param using request.getParameter(\"paramName\")
. The following code
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
request.getInputStream()));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (String line; (line = reader.readLine()) != null;) {
System.out.println(line);
}
however displays the content for me
-----------------------------29772313742745
Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"
J.Doe
-----------------------------29772313742745
Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"email\"
abuse@spamcop.com
-----------------------------29772313742745
What is the best way to parse incoming request? I don’t want to write my own parser, probably there is a ready solution.
multipart/form-data
encoded requests are indeed not by default supported by the Servlet API prior to version 3.0. The Servlet API parses the parameters by default using application/x-www-form-urlencoded
encoding. When using a different encoding, the request.getParameter()
calls will all return null
. When you\'re already on Servlet 3.0 (Glassfish 3, Tomcat 7, etc), then you can use HttpServletRequest#getParts()
instead. Also see this blog for extended examples.
Prior to Servlet 3.0, a de facto standard to parse multipart/form-data
requests would be using Apache Commons FileUpload. Just carefully read its User Guide and Frequently Asked Questions sections to learn how to use it. I\'ve posted an answer with a code example before here (it also contains an example targeting Servlet 3.0).
Solutions:
Solution A:
- Download http://www.servlets.com/cos/index.html
- Invoke getParameters() on
com.oreilly.servlet.MultipartRequest
Solution B:
- Download http://jakarta.Apache.org/commons/fileupload/
- Invoke readHeaders() in
org.apache.commons.fileupload.MultipartStream
Solution C:
- Download http://users.boone.net/wbrameld/multipartformdata/
- Invoke getParameter on
com.bigfoot.bugar.servlet.http.MultipartFormData
Solution D:
Use Struts. Struts 1.1 handles this automatically.
Reference: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1045507
Not always there\'s a servlet before of an upload (I could use a filter for example).
Or could be that the same controller ( again a filter or also a servelt ) can serve many actions, so I think that rely on that servlet configuration to use the getPart method (only for Servlet API >= 3.0), I don\'t know, I don\'t like.
In general, I prefer independent solutions, able to live alone, and in this case http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-fileupload/ is one of that.
List<FileItem> multiparts = new ServletFileUpload(new DiskFileItemFactory()).parseRequest(request);
for (FileItem item : multiparts) {
if (!item.isFormField()) {
//your operations on file
} else {
String name = item.getFieldName();
String value = item.getString();
//you operations on paramters
}
}