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I am trying to get files from my MVC project (asp.net core 3.1)
I created a link
<a asp-action="#nameof(HomeController.Download)" asp-controller="#HomeController.Name" asp-route-fileName="fileName.doc" download>FileName</a>
I created a controller
public async Task<ActionResult> Download(string fileName) {
var path = Path.Combine(_hostingEnvironment.WebRootPath, fileName);
if (!System.IO.File.Exists(path)) {
return NotFound();
}
var fileBytes = await System.IO.File.ReadAllBytesAsync(path);
var response = new FileContentResult(fileBytes, "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document") {
FileDownloadName = fileName
};
return response;
}
In Chrome i get the warning
Download is disallowed. The frame initiating or instantiating the download is sandboxed, but the flag ‘allow-downloads’ is not set. See https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5706745674465280 for more details.
Following the link, how can i add:
add "allow-downloads" to the sandbox attributes list to opt in
The file is downloaded if i click the button from Microsoft Edge
This is what I had to do for my project, hopefully it will point you to the right direction.
In your Startup.cs
services.AddMvc(options =>{
options.Filters.Add(new MyActionFilterAttribute());
}
Then in MyActionFilterAttribute.cs
public class MyActionFilterAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnResultExecuting(ResultExecutingContext filterContext)
{
filterContext.HttpContext.Response.Headers.Add("Content-Security-Policy", "sandbox allow-downloads; " )
}
}
Recently i am trying to upload a file to IPFS and download/retrieve it using ipfs core api. And for this purpose a use .net library ipfs(c#) library. its works fine for a txt file but when i uploaded a pdf file and tries to download it gives me some kind of string.i thought that that string maybe my pdf file all content but that string proves me wrong. when i tries to compare my original pdf file string with (current string) that is totally diffferent..
my pdf file hash : QmWPCRv8jBfr9sDjKuB5sxpVzXhMycZzwqxifrZZdQ6K9o
and my c# code the get this(api) ==>
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var ipfs = new IpfsClient();
const string filename = "QmWPCRv8jBfr9sDjKuB5sxpVzXhMycZzwqxifrZZdQ6K9o";
var text = ipfs.FileSystem.ReadAllTextAsync(filename).Result;
}
my question is whtat i have done wrong and i have done some wrong then how can i get a pdf file ?? how ??
First of all please check if you can access to the file from live environment:
e.g.
https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/QmNtg1uDy1A71udMa2ipTfKghArRQFspfFkncunamW29SA
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/
if the file was uploaded correctly you can IpfsClient package to do this action:
Define property that references on ipfs env (e.g. via infura)
_ipfsClient = new IpfsClient("https://ipfs.infura.io:5001");
Introduce method to download the file by hash
public async Task<byte[]> DownloadAsync(string hash)
{
using (var stream = await _ipfsClient.FileSystem.ReadFileAsync(hash))
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
stream.CopyTo(ms);
return ms.ToArray();
}
}
}
If you use web api - introduce controller to return exactly pdf
public async Task<IActionResult> Get(string hash)
{
var data = await _ipfsDownloadService.DownloadAsync(hash);
return File(data, "application/pdf");
}
How can I upload files to server using JSP/Servlet?
I tried this:
<form action="upload" method="post">
<input type="text" name="description" />
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
However, I only get the file name, not the file content. When I add enctype="multipart/form-data" to the <form>, then request.getParameter() returns null.
During research I stumbled upon Apache Common FileUpload. I tried this:
FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
List items = upload.parseRequest(request); // This line is where it died.
Unfortunately, the servlet threw an exception without a clear message and cause. Here is the stacktrace:
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet UploadServlet threw exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:313)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)
Introduction
To browse and select a file for upload you need a HTML <input type="file"> field in the form. As stated in the HTML specification you have to use the POST method and the enctype attribute of the form has to be set to "multipart/form-data".
<form action="upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="description" />
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
After submitting such a form, the binary multipart form data is available in the request body in a different format than when the enctype isn't set.
Before Servlet 3.0 (Dec 2009), the Servlet API didn't natively support multipart/form-data. It supports only the default form enctype of application/x-www-form-urlencoded. The request.getParameter() and consorts would all return null when using multipart form data. This is where the well known Apache Commons FileUpload came into the picture.
Don't manually parse it!
You can in theory parse the request body yourself based on ServletRequest#getInputStream(). However, this is a precise and tedious work which requires precise knowledge of RFC2388. You shouldn't try to do this on your own or copypaste some homegrown library-less code found elsewhere on the Internet. Many online sources have failed hard in this, such as roseindia.net. See also uploading of pdf file. You should rather use a real library which is used (and implicitly tested!) by millions of users for years. Such a library has proven its robustness.
When you're already on Servlet 3.0 or newer, use native API
If you're using at least Servlet 3.0 (Tomcat 7, Jetty 9, JBoss AS 6, GlassFish 3, etc, they exist already since 2010), then you can just use standard API provided HttpServletRequest#getPart() to collect the individual multipart form data items (most Servlet 3.0 implementations actually use Apache Commons FileUpload under the covers for this!). Also, normal form fields are available by getParameter() the usual way.
First annotate your servlet with #MultipartConfig in order to let it recognize and support multipart/form-data requests and thus get getPart() to work:
#WebServlet("/upload")
#MultipartConfig
public class UploadServlet extends HttpServlet {
// ...
}
Then, implement its doPost() as follows:
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
String description = request.getParameter("description"); // Retrieves <input type="text" name="description">
Part filePart = request.getPart("file"); // Retrieves <input type="file" name="file">
String fileName = Paths.get(filePart.getSubmittedFileName()).getFileName().toString(); // MSIE fix.
InputStream fileContent = filePart.getInputStream();
// ... (do your job here)
}
Note the Path#getFileName(). This is a MSIE fix as to obtaining the file name. This browser incorrectly sends the full file path along the name instead of only the file name.
In case you want to upload multiple files via either multiple="true",
<input type="file" name="files" multiple="true" />
or the old-fashioned way with multiple inputs,
<input type="file" name="files" />
<input type="file" name="files" />
<input type="file" name="files" />
...
then you can collect them as below (unfortunately there is no such method as request.getParts("files")):
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
// ...
List<Part> fileParts = request.getParts().stream().filter(part -> "files".equals(part.getName()) && part.getSize() > 0).collect(Collectors.toList()); // Retrieves <input type="file" name="files" multiple="true">
for (Part filePart : fileParts) {
String fileName = Paths.get(filePart.getSubmittedFileName()).getFileName().toString(); // MSIE fix.
InputStream fileContent = filePart.getInputStream();
// ... (do your job here)
}
}
When you're not on Servlet 3.1 yet, manually get submitted file name
Note that Part#getSubmittedFileName() was introduced in Servlet 3.1 (Tomcat 8, Jetty 9, WildFly 8, GlassFish 4, etc, they exist since 2013 already). If you're not on Servlet 3.1 yet (really?), then you need an additional utility method to obtain the submitted file name.
private static String getSubmittedFileName(Part part) {
for (String cd : part.getHeader("content-disposition").split(";")) {
if (cd.trim().startsWith("filename")) {
String fileName = cd.substring(cd.indexOf('=') + 1).trim().replace("\"", "");
return fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf('/') + 1).substring(fileName.lastIndexOf('\\') + 1); // MSIE fix.
}
}
return null;
}
String fileName = getSubmittedFileName(filePart);
Note the MSIE fix as to obtaining the file name. This browser incorrectly sends the full file path along the name instead of only the file name.
When you're not on Servlet 3.0 yet, use Apache Commons FileUpload
If you're not on Servlet 3.0 yet (isn't it about time to upgrade? it's released over a decade ago!), the common practice is to make use of Apache Commons FileUpload to parse the multpart form data requests. It has an excellent User Guide and FAQ (carefully go through both). There's also the O'Reilly ("cos") MultipartRequest, but it has some (minor) bugs and isn't actively maintained anymore for years. I wouldn't recommend using it. Apache Commons FileUpload is still actively maintained and currently very mature.
In order to use Apache Commons FileUpload, you need to have at least the following files in your webapp's /WEB-INF/lib:
commons-fileupload.jar
commons-io.jar
Your initial attempt failed most likely because you forgot the commons IO.
Here's a kickoff example how the doPost() of your UploadServlet may look like when using Apache Commons FileUpload:
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
try {
List<FileItem> items = new ServletFileUpload(new DiskFileItemFactory()).parseRequest(request);
for (FileItem item : items) {
if (item.isFormField()) {
// Process regular form field (input type="text|radio|checkbox|etc", select, etc).
String fieldName = item.getFieldName();
String fieldValue = item.getString();
// ... (do your job here)
} else {
// Process form file field (input type="file").
String fieldName = item.getFieldName();
String fileName = FilenameUtils.getName(item.getName());
InputStream fileContent = item.getInputStream();
// ... (do your job here)
}
}
} catch (FileUploadException e) {
throw new ServletException("Cannot parse multipart request.", e);
}
// ...
}
It's very important that you don't call getParameter(), getParameterMap(), getParameterValues(), getInputStream(), getReader(), etc on the same request beforehand. Otherwise the servlet container will read and parse the request body and thus Apache Commons FileUpload will get an empty request body. See also a.o. ServletFileUpload#parseRequest(request) returns an empty list.
Note the FilenameUtils#getName(). This is a MSIE fix as to obtaining the file name. This browser incorrectly sends the full file path along the name instead of only the file name.
Alternatively you can also wrap this all in a Filter which parses it all automagically and put the stuff back in the parametermap of the request so that you can continue using request.getParameter() the usual way and retrieve the uploaded file by request.getAttribute(). You can find an example in this blog article.
Workaround for GlassFish3 bug of getParameter() still returning null
Note that Glassfish versions older than 3.1.2 had a bug wherein the getParameter() still returns null. If you are targeting such a container and can't upgrade it, then you need to extract the value from getPart() with help of this utility method:
private static String getValue(Part part) throws IOException {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(part.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));
StringBuilder value = new StringBuilder();
char[] buffer = new char[1024];
for (int length = 0; (length = reader.read(buffer)) > 0;) {
value.append(buffer, 0, length);
}
return value.toString();
}
String description = getValue(request.getPart("description")); // Retrieves <input type="text" name="description">
Saving uploaded file (don't use getRealPath() nor part.write()!)
Head to the following answers for detail on properly saving the obtained InputStream (the fileContent variable as shown in the above code snippets) to disk or database:
Recommended way to save uploaded files in a servlet application
How to upload an image and save it in database?
How to convert Part to Blob, so I can store it in MySQL?
Serving uploaded file
Head to the following answers for detail on properly serving the saved file from disk or database back to the client:
Load images from outside of webapps / webcontext / deploy folder using <h:graphicImage> or <img> tag
How to retrieve and display images from a database in a JSP page?
Simplest way to serve static data from outside the application server in a Java web application
Abstract template for static resource servlet supporting HTTP caching
Ajaxifying the form
Head to the following answers how to upload using Ajax (and jQuery). Do note that the servlet code to collect the form data does not need to be changed for this! Only the way how you respond may be changed, but this is rather trivial (i.e. instead of forwarding to JSP, just print some JSON or XML or even plain text depending on whatever the script responsible for the Ajax call is expecting).
How can I upload files to a server using JSP/Servlet and Ajax?
Send a file as multipart through XMLHttpRequest
HTML5 drag and drop file upload to Java Servlet
Hope this all helps :)
If you happen to use Spring MVC, this is how to (I'm leaving this here in case someone find it useful):
Use a form with enctype attribute set to "multipart/form-data" (the same as BalusC's answer):
<form action="upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" value="Upload"/>
</form>
In your controller, map the request parameter file to MultipartFile type as follows:
#RequestMapping(value = "/upload", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void handleUpload(#RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file) throws IOException {
if (!file.isEmpty()) {
byte[] bytes = file.getBytes(); // alternatively, file.getInputStream();
// application logic
}
}
You can get the filename and size using MultipartFile's getOriginalFilename() and getSize().
I've tested this with Spring version 4.1.1.RELEASE.
Without components or external libraries in Tomcat 6 or Tomcat 7
Enabling upload in the web.xml file:
Manually Installing PHP, Tomcat and Httpd Lounge.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
<multipart-config>
<max-file-size>3145728</max-file-size>
<max-request-size>5242880</max-request-size>
</multipart-config>
<init-param>
<param-name>fork</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
As you can see:
<multipart-config>
<max-file-size>3145728</max-file-size>
<max-request-size>5242880</max-request-size>
</multipart-config>
Uploading files using JSP. files:
In the HTML file
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="Form" >
<input type="file" name="fFoto" id="fFoto" value="" /></td>
<input type="file" name="fResumen" id="fResumen" value=""/>
In the JSP File or Servlet
InputStream isFoto = request.getPart("fFoto").getInputStream();
InputStream isResu = request.getPart("fResumen").getInputStream();
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte buf[] = new byte[8192];
int qt = 0;
while ((qt = isResu.read(buf)) != -1) {
baos.write(buf, 0, qt);
}
String sResumen = baos.toString();
Edit your code to servlet requirements, like max-file-size, max-request-size and other options that you can to set...
You need the common-io.1.4.jar file to be included in your lib directory, or if you're working in any editor, like NetBeans, then you need to go to project properties and just add the JAR file and you will be done.
To get the common.io.jar file just google it or just go to the Apache Tomcat website where you get the option for a free download of this file. But remember one thing: download the binary ZIP file if you're a Windows user.
I am using a common Servlet for every HTML form whether it has attachments or not.
This Servlet returns a TreeMap where the keys are JSP name parameters and values are user inputs and saves all attachments in a fixed directory and later you rename the directory of your choice. Here Connections is our custom interface having a connection object.
public class ServletCommonfunctions extends HttpServlet implements
Connections {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public ServletCommonfunctions() {}
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException,
IOException {}
public SortedMap<String, String> savefilesindirectory(
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException {
// Map<String, String> key_values = Collections.synchronizedMap(new
// TreeMap<String, String>());
SortedMap<String, String> key_values = new TreeMap<String, String>();
String dist = null, fact = null;
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
File file;
String filePath = "E:\\FSPATH1\\2KL06CS048\\";
System.out.println("Directory Created ????????????"
+ new File(filePath).mkdir());
int maxFileSize = 5000 * 1024;
int maxMemSize = 5000 * 1024;
// Verify the content type
String contentType = request.getContentType();
if ((contentType.indexOf("multipart/form-data") >= 0)) {
DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
// Maximum size that will be stored in memory
factory.setSizeThreshold(maxMemSize);
// Location to save data that is larger than maxMemSize.
factory.setRepository(new File(filePath));
// Create a new file upload handler
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
// maximum file size to be uploaded.
upload.setSizeMax(maxFileSize);
try {
// Parse the request to get file items.
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
List<FileItem> fileItems = upload.parseRequest(request);
// Process the uploaded file items
Iterator<FileItem> i = fileItems.iterator();
while (i.hasNext()) {
FileItem fi = (FileItem) i.next();
if (!fi.isFormField()) {
// Get the uploaded file parameters
String fileName = fi.getName();
// Write the file
if (fileName.lastIndexOf("\\") >= 0) {
file = new File(filePath
+ fileName.substring(fileName
.lastIndexOf("\\")));
} else {
file = new File(filePath
+ fileName.substring(fileName
.lastIndexOf("\\") + 1));
}
fi.write(file);
} else {
key_values.put(fi.getFieldName(), fi.getString());
}
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex);
}
}
return key_values;
}
}
For Spring MVC
I managed to have a simpler version that worked for taking form input, both data and images.
<form action="/handleform" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="name" />
<input type="text" name="age" />
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Controller to handle
#Controller
public class FormController {
#RequestMapping(value="/handleform",method= RequestMethod.POST)
ModelAndView register(#RequestParam String name, #RequestParam int age, #RequestParam MultipartFile file)
throws ServletException, IOException {
System.out.println(name);
System.out.println(age);
if(!file.isEmpty()){
byte[] bytes = file.getBytes();
String filename = file.getOriginalFilename();
BufferedOutputStream stream =new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File("D:/" + filename)));
stream.write(bytes);
stream.flush();
stream.close();
}
return new ModelAndView("index");
}
}
Another source of this problem occurs if you are using Geronimo with its embedded Tomcat. In this case, after many iterations of testing Commons IO and commons-fileupload, the problem arises from a parent classloader handling the commons-xxx JAR files. This has to be prevented. The crash always occurred at:
fileItems = uploader.parseRequest(request);
Note that the List type of fileItems has changed with the current version of commons-fileupload to be specifically List<FileItem> as opposed to prior versions where it was generic List.
I added the source code for commons-fileupload and Commons IO into my Eclipse project to trace the actual error and finally got some insight. First, the exception thrown is of type Throwable not the stated FileIOException nor even Exception (these will not be trapped). Second, the error message is obfuscatory in that it stated class not found because axis2 could not find commons-io. Axis2 is not used in my project at all, but it exists as a folder in the Geronimo repository subdirectory as part of standard installation.
Finally, I found one place that posed a working solution which successfully solved my problem. You must hide the JAR files from the parent loader in the deployment plan. This was put into the geronimo-web.xml file with my full file shown below.
Pasted from http://osdir.com/ml/user-geronimo-apache/2011-03/msg00026.html:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<web:web-app xmlns:app="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-2.0" xmlns:client="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-client-2.0" xmlns:conn="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/connector-1.2" xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2" xmlns:ejb="http://openejb.apache.org/xml/ns/openejb-jar-2.2" xmlns:log="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/loginconfig-2.0" xmlns:name="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.2" xmlns:pers="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:pkgen="http://openejb.apache.org/xml/ns/pkgen-2.1" xmlns:sec="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-2.0" xmlns:web="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0.1">
<dep:environment>
<dep:moduleId>
<dep:groupId>DataStar</dep:groupId>
<dep:artifactId>DataStar</dep:artifactId>
<dep:version>1.0</dep:version>
<dep:type>car</dep:type>
</dep:moduleId>
<!-- Don't load commons-io or fileupload from parent classloaders -->
<dep:hidden-classes>
<dep:filter>org.apache.commons.io</dep:filter>
<dep:filter>org.apache.commons.fileupload</dep:filter>
</dep:hidden-classes>
<dep:inverse-classloading/>
</dep:environment>
<web:context-root>/DataStar</web:context-root>
</web:web-app>
Here's an example using apache commons-fileupload:
// apache commons-fileupload to handle file upload
DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
factory.setRepository(new File(DataSources.TORRENTS_DIR()));
ServletFileUpload fileUpload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
List<FileItem> items = fileUpload.parseRequest(req.raw());
FileItem item = items.stream()
.filter(e ->
"the_upload_name".equals(e.getFieldName()))
.findFirst().get();
String fileName = item.getName();
item.write(new File(dir, fileName));
log.info(fileName);
You first have to set the enctype attribute of the form to "multipart/form-data"
This is shown below.
<form action="Controller" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label class="file-upload"> Click here to upload an Image </label>
<input type="file" name="file" id="file" required>
</form>
And then, in the Servlet "Controller" add the Annotation for a Multi-part to indicate multipart data is processed in the servlet.
After doing this, retrieve the part sent through the form and then retrieve the file name (with path)of the submitted file. Use this to create a new file in the desired path and write the parts of the file to the newly created file to recreate the file.
As shown below:
#MultipartConfig
public class Controller extends HttpServlet {
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
insertImage(request, response);
}
private void addProduct(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
Part filePart = request.getPart("file");
String imageName = Paths.get(filePart.getSubmittedFileName()).getFileName().toString();
String imageSavePath = "specify image path to save image"; //path to save image
FileOutputStream outputStream = null;
InputStream fileContent = null;
try {
outputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File(imageSavePath + File.separator + imageName));
// Creating a new file with file path and the file name
fileContent = filePart.getInputStream();
// Getting the input stream
int readBytes = 0;
byte[] readArray = new byte[1024];
// Initializing a byte array with size 1024
while ((readBytes = fileContent.read(readArray)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(readArray, 0, readBytes);
} // This loop will write the contents of the byte array unitl the end to the output stream
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Error Writing File: " + ex);
} finally {
if (outputStream != null) {
outputStream.close();
// Closing the output stream
}
if (fileContent != null) {
fileContent.close();
// Closing the input stream
}
}
}
}
The simplest way I could come up with for files and input controls, without a billion libraries:
<%
if (request.getContentType() == null)
return;
// For input type=text controls
String v_Text =
(new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(request.getPart("Text1").getInputStream()))).readLine();
// For input type=file controls
InputStream inStr = request.getPart("File1").getInputStream();
char charArray[] = new char[inStr.available()];
new InputStreamReader(inStr).read(charArray);
String contents = new String(charArray);
%>
Use:
DiskFileUpload upload = new DiskFileUpload();
From this object you have to get the file items and fields, and then you can store into the server like the following:
String loc = "./webapps/prjct name/server folder/" + contentid + extension;
File uploadFile = new File(loc);
item.write(uploadFile);
You can upload a file using JSP /servlet.
<form action="UploadFileServlet" method="post">
<input type="text" name="description" />
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
On the other hand, on the server side, use the following code.
package com.abc..servlet;
import java.io.File;
---------
--------
/**
* Servlet implementation class UploadFileServlet
*/
public class UploadFileServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public UploadFileServlet() {
super();
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
response.sendRedirect("../jsp/ErrorPage.jsp");
}
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
HttpSession httpSession = request.getSession();
String filePathUpload = (String) httpSession.getAttribute("path") != null ? httpSession.getAttribute("path").toString() : "" ;
String path1 = filePathUpload;
String filename = null;
File path = null;
FileItem item = null;
boolean isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);
if (isMultipart) {
FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
String FieldName = "";
try {
List items = upload.parseRequest(request);
Iterator iterator = items.iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
item = (FileItem) iterator.next();
if (fieldname.equals("description")) {
description = item.getString();
}
}
if (!item.isFormField()) {
filename = item.getName();
path = new File(path1 + File.separator);
if (!path.exists()) {
boolean status = path.mkdirs();
}
/* Start of code fro privilege */
File uploadedFile = new File(path + Filename); // for copy file
item.write(uploadedFile);
}
} else {
f1 = item.getName();
}
} // END OF WHILE
response.sendRedirect("welcome.jsp");
} catch (FileUploadException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
HTML page
<html>
<head>
<title>File Uploading Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>File Upload:</h3>
Select a file to upload: <br />
<form action="UploadServlet" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file" size="50" />
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Servlet file
// Import required java libraries
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.disk.DiskFileItemFactory;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload;
import org.apache.commons.io.output.*;
public class UploadServlet extends HttpServlet {
private boolean isMultipart;
private String filePath;
private int maxFileSize = 50 * 1024;
private int maxMemSize = 4 * 1024;
private File file;
public void init() {
// Get the file location where it would be stored.
filePath =
getServletContext().getInitParameter("file-upload");
}
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
// Check that we have a file upload request
isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);
response.setContentType("text/html");
java.io.PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
if (!isMultipart) {
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet upload</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<p>No file uploaded</p>");
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
return;
}
DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
// Maximum size that will be stored in memory
factory.setSizeThreshold(maxMemSize);
// Location to save data that is larger than maxMemSize.
factory.setRepository(new File("c:\\temp"));
// Create a new file upload handler
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
// maximum file size to be uploaded.
upload.setSizeMax(maxFileSize);
try {
// Parse the request to get file items.
List fileItems = upload.parseRequest(request);
// Process the uploaded file items
Iterator i = fileItems.iterator();
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet upload</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
while (i.hasNext())
{
FileItem fi = (FileItem)i.next();
if (!fi.isFormField())
{
// Get the uploaded file parameters
String fieldName = fi.getFieldName();
String fileName = fi.getName();
String contentType = fi.getContentType();
boolean isInMemory = fi.isInMemory();
long sizeInBytes = fi.getSize();
// Write the file
if (fileName.lastIndexOf("\\") >= 0) {
file = new File(filePath +
fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf("\\")));
}
else {
file = new File(filePath +
fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf("\\") + 1));
}
fi.write(file);
out.println("Uploaded Filename: " + fileName + "<br>");
}
}
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
}
catch(Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex);
}
}
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
throw new ServletException("GET method used with " +
getClass().getName() + ": POST method required.");
}
}
File web.xml
Compile the above servlet UploadServlet and create the required entry in the web.xml file as follows.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>UploadServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>UploadServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>UploadServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/UploadServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Sending multiple files for file, we have to use enctype="multipart/form-data".
And to send multiple files, use multiple="multiple" in the input tag:
<form action="upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="fileattachments" multiple="multiple"/>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
How can I upload files to server using JSP/Servlet?
I tried this:
<form action="upload" method="post">
<input type="text" name="description" />
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
However, I only get the file name, not the file content. When I add enctype="multipart/form-data" to the <form>, then request.getParameter() returns null.
During research I stumbled upon Apache Common FileUpload. I tried this:
FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
List items = upload.parseRequest(request); // This line is where it died.
Unfortunately, the servlet threw an exception without a clear message and cause. Here is the stacktrace:
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet UploadServlet threw exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:313)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)
Introduction
To browse and select a file for upload you need a HTML <input type="file"> field in the form. As stated in the HTML specification you have to use the POST method and the enctype attribute of the form has to be set to "multipart/form-data".
<form action="upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="description" />
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
After submitting such a form, the binary multipart form data is available in the request body in a different format than when the enctype isn't set.
Before Servlet 3.0 (Dec 2009), the Servlet API didn't natively support multipart/form-data. It supports only the default form enctype of application/x-www-form-urlencoded. The request.getParameter() and consorts would all return null when using multipart form data. This is where the well known Apache Commons FileUpload came into the picture.
Don't manually parse it!
You can in theory parse the request body yourself based on ServletRequest#getInputStream(). However, this is a precise and tedious work which requires precise knowledge of RFC2388. You shouldn't try to do this on your own or copypaste some homegrown library-less code found elsewhere on the Internet. Many online sources have failed hard in this, such as roseindia.net. See also uploading of pdf file. You should rather use a real library which is used (and implicitly tested!) by millions of users for years. Such a library has proven its robustness.
When you're already on Servlet 3.0 or newer, use native API
If you're using at least Servlet 3.0 (Tomcat 7, Jetty 9, JBoss AS 6, GlassFish 3, etc, they exist already since 2010), then you can just use standard API provided HttpServletRequest#getPart() to collect the individual multipart form data items (most Servlet 3.0 implementations actually use Apache Commons FileUpload under the covers for this!). Also, normal form fields are available by getParameter() the usual way.
First annotate your servlet with #MultipartConfig in order to let it recognize and support multipart/form-data requests and thus get getPart() to work:
#WebServlet("/upload")
#MultipartConfig
public class UploadServlet extends HttpServlet {
// ...
}
Then, implement its doPost() as follows:
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
String description = request.getParameter("description"); // Retrieves <input type="text" name="description">
Part filePart = request.getPart("file"); // Retrieves <input type="file" name="file">
String fileName = Paths.get(filePart.getSubmittedFileName()).getFileName().toString(); // MSIE fix.
InputStream fileContent = filePart.getInputStream();
// ... (do your job here)
}
Note the Path#getFileName(). This is a MSIE fix as to obtaining the file name. This browser incorrectly sends the full file path along the name instead of only the file name.
In case you want to upload multiple files via either multiple="true",
<input type="file" name="files" multiple="true" />
or the old-fashioned way with multiple inputs,
<input type="file" name="files" />
<input type="file" name="files" />
<input type="file" name="files" />
...
then you can collect them as below (unfortunately there is no such method as request.getParts("files")):
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
// ...
List<Part> fileParts = request.getParts().stream().filter(part -> "files".equals(part.getName()) && part.getSize() > 0).collect(Collectors.toList()); // Retrieves <input type="file" name="files" multiple="true">
for (Part filePart : fileParts) {
String fileName = Paths.get(filePart.getSubmittedFileName()).getFileName().toString(); // MSIE fix.
InputStream fileContent = filePart.getInputStream();
// ... (do your job here)
}
}
When you're not on Servlet 3.1 yet, manually get submitted file name
Note that Part#getSubmittedFileName() was introduced in Servlet 3.1 (Tomcat 8, Jetty 9, WildFly 8, GlassFish 4, etc, they exist since 2013 already). If you're not on Servlet 3.1 yet (really?), then you need an additional utility method to obtain the submitted file name.
private static String getSubmittedFileName(Part part) {
for (String cd : part.getHeader("content-disposition").split(";")) {
if (cd.trim().startsWith("filename")) {
String fileName = cd.substring(cd.indexOf('=') + 1).trim().replace("\"", "");
return fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf('/') + 1).substring(fileName.lastIndexOf('\\') + 1); // MSIE fix.
}
}
return null;
}
String fileName = getSubmittedFileName(filePart);
Note the MSIE fix as to obtaining the file name. This browser incorrectly sends the full file path along the name instead of only the file name.
When you're not on Servlet 3.0 yet, use Apache Commons FileUpload
If you're not on Servlet 3.0 yet (isn't it about time to upgrade? it's released over a decade ago!), the common practice is to make use of Apache Commons FileUpload to parse the multpart form data requests. It has an excellent User Guide and FAQ (carefully go through both). There's also the O'Reilly ("cos") MultipartRequest, but it has some (minor) bugs and isn't actively maintained anymore for years. I wouldn't recommend using it. Apache Commons FileUpload is still actively maintained and currently very mature.
In order to use Apache Commons FileUpload, you need to have at least the following files in your webapp's /WEB-INF/lib:
commons-fileupload.jar
commons-io.jar
Your initial attempt failed most likely because you forgot the commons IO.
Here's a kickoff example how the doPost() of your UploadServlet may look like when using Apache Commons FileUpload:
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
try {
List<FileItem> items = new ServletFileUpload(new DiskFileItemFactory()).parseRequest(request);
for (FileItem item : items) {
if (item.isFormField()) {
// Process regular form field (input type="text|radio|checkbox|etc", select, etc).
String fieldName = item.getFieldName();
String fieldValue = item.getString();
// ... (do your job here)
} else {
// Process form file field (input type="file").
String fieldName = item.getFieldName();
String fileName = FilenameUtils.getName(item.getName());
InputStream fileContent = item.getInputStream();
// ... (do your job here)
}
}
} catch (FileUploadException e) {
throw new ServletException("Cannot parse multipart request.", e);
}
// ...
}
It's very important that you don't call getParameter(), getParameterMap(), getParameterValues(), getInputStream(), getReader(), etc on the same request beforehand. Otherwise the servlet container will read and parse the request body and thus Apache Commons FileUpload will get an empty request body. See also a.o. ServletFileUpload#parseRequest(request) returns an empty list.
Note the FilenameUtils#getName(). This is a MSIE fix as to obtaining the file name. This browser incorrectly sends the full file path along the name instead of only the file name.
Alternatively you can also wrap this all in a Filter which parses it all automagically and put the stuff back in the parametermap of the request so that you can continue using request.getParameter() the usual way and retrieve the uploaded file by request.getAttribute(). You can find an example in this blog article.
Workaround for GlassFish3 bug of getParameter() still returning null
Note that Glassfish versions older than 3.1.2 had a bug wherein the getParameter() still returns null. If you are targeting such a container and can't upgrade it, then you need to extract the value from getPart() with help of this utility method:
private static String getValue(Part part) throws IOException {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(part.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));
StringBuilder value = new StringBuilder();
char[] buffer = new char[1024];
for (int length = 0; (length = reader.read(buffer)) > 0;) {
value.append(buffer, 0, length);
}
return value.toString();
}
String description = getValue(request.getPart("description")); // Retrieves <input type="text" name="description">
Saving uploaded file (don't use getRealPath() nor part.write()!)
Head to the following answers for detail on properly saving the obtained InputStream (the fileContent variable as shown in the above code snippets) to disk or database:
Recommended way to save uploaded files in a servlet application
How to upload an image and save it in database?
How to convert Part to Blob, so I can store it in MySQL?
Serving uploaded file
Head to the following answers for detail on properly serving the saved file from disk or database back to the client:
Load images from outside of webapps / webcontext / deploy folder using <h:graphicImage> or <img> tag
How to retrieve and display images from a database in a JSP page?
Simplest way to serve static data from outside the application server in a Java web application
Abstract template for static resource servlet supporting HTTP caching
Ajaxifying the form
Head to the following answers how to upload using Ajax (and jQuery). Do note that the servlet code to collect the form data does not need to be changed for this! Only the way how you respond may be changed, but this is rather trivial (i.e. instead of forwarding to JSP, just print some JSON or XML or even plain text depending on whatever the script responsible for the Ajax call is expecting).
How can I upload files to a server using JSP/Servlet and Ajax?
Send a file as multipart through XMLHttpRequest
HTML5 drag and drop file upload to Java Servlet
Hope this all helps :)
If you happen to use Spring MVC, this is how to (I'm leaving this here in case someone find it useful):
Use a form with enctype attribute set to "multipart/form-data" (the same as BalusC's answer):
<form action="upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" value="Upload"/>
</form>
In your controller, map the request parameter file to MultipartFile type as follows:
#RequestMapping(value = "/upload", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void handleUpload(#RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file) throws IOException {
if (!file.isEmpty()) {
byte[] bytes = file.getBytes(); // alternatively, file.getInputStream();
// application logic
}
}
You can get the filename and size using MultipartFile's getOriginalFilename() and getSize().
I've tested this with Spring version 4.1.1.RELEASE.
Without components or external libraries in Tomcat 6 or Tomcat 7
Enabling upload in the web.xml file:
Manually Installing PHP, Tomcat and Httpd Lounge.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
<multipart-config>
<max-file-size>3145728</max-file-size>
<max-request-size>5242880</max-request-size>
</multipart-config>
<init-param>
<param-name>fork</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
As you can see:
<multipart-config>
<max-file-size>3145728</max-file-size>
<max-request-size>5242880</max-request-size>
</multipart-config>
Uploading files using JSP. files:
In the HTML file
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="Form" >
<input type="file" name="fFoto" id="fFoto" value="" /></td>
<input type="file" name="fResumen" id="fResumen" value=""/>
In the JSP File or Servlet
InputStream isFoto = request.getPart("fFoto").getInputStream();
InputStream isResu = request.getPart("fResumen").getInputStream();
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte buf[] = new byte[8192];
int qt = 0;
while ((qt = isResu.read(buf)) != -1) {
baos.write(buf, 0, qt);
}
String sResumen = baos.toString();
Edit your code to servlet requirements, like max-file-size, max-request-size and other options that you can to set...
You need the common-io.1.4.jar file to be included in your lib directory, or if you're working in any editor, like NetBeans, then you need to go to project properties and just add the JAR file and you will be done.
To get the common.io.jar file just google it or just go to the Apache Tomcat website where you get the option for a free download of this file. But remember one thing: download the binary ZIP file if you're a Windows user.
I am using a common Servlet for every HTML form whether it has attachments or not.
This Servlet returns a TreeMap where the keys are JSP name parameters and values are user inputs and saves all attachments in a fixed directory and later you rename the directory of your choice. Here Connections is our custom interface having a connection object.
public class ServletCommonfunctions extends HttpServlet implements
Connections {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public ServletCommonfunctions() {}
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException,
IOException {}
public SortedMap<String, String> savefilesindirectory(
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException {
// Map<String, String> key_values = Collections.synchronizedMap(new
// TreeMap<String, String>());
SortedMap<String, String> key_values = new TreeMap<String, String>();
String dist = null, fact = null;
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
File file;
String filePath = "E:\\FSPATH1\\2KL06CS048\\";
System.out.println("Directory Created ????????????"
+ new File(filePath).mkdir());
int maxFileSize = 5000 * 1024;
int maxMemSize = 5000 * 1024;
// Verify the content type
String contentType = request.getContentType();
if ((contentType.indexOf("multipart/form-data") >= 0)) {
DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
// Maximum size that will be stored in memory
factory.setSizeThreshold(maxMemSize);
// Location to save data that is larger than maxMemSize.
factory.setRepository(new File(filePath));
// Create a new file upload handler
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
// maximum file size to be uploaded.
upload.setSizeMax(maxFileSize);
try {
// Parse the request to get file items.
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
List<FileItem> fileItems = upload.parseRequest(request);
// Process the uploaded file items
Iterator<FileItem> i = fileItems.iterator();
while (i.hasNext()) {
FileItem fi = (FileItem) i.next();
if (!fi.isFormField()) {
// Get the uploaded file parameters
String fileName = fi.getName();
// Write the file
if (fileName.lastIndexOf("\\") >= 0) {
file = new File(filePath
+ fileName.substring(fileName
.lastIndexOf("\\")));
} else {
file = new File(filePath
+ fileName.substring(fileName
.lastIndexOf("\\") + 1));
}
fi.write(file);
} else {
key_values.put(fi.getFieldName(), fi.getString());
}
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex);
}
}
return key_values;
}
}
For Spring MVC
I managed to have a simpler version that worked for taking form input, both data and images.
<form action="/handleform" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="name" />
<input type="text" name="age" />
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Controller to handle
#Controller
public class FormController {
#RequestMapping(value="/handleform",method= RequestMethod.POST)
ModelAndView register(#RequestParam String name, #RequestParam int age, #RequestParam MultipartFile file)
throws ServletException, IOException {
System.out.println(name);
System.out.println(age);
if(!file.isEmpty()){
byte[] bytes = file.getBytes();
String filename = file.getOriginalFilename();
BufferedOutputStream stream =new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File("D:/" + filename)));
stream.write(bytes);
stream.flush();
stream.close();
}
return new ModelAndView("index");
}
}
Another source of this problem occurs if you are using Geronimo with its embedded Tomcat. In this case, after many iterations of testing Commons IO and commons-fileupload, the problem arises from a parent classloader handling the commons-xxx JAR files. This has to be prevented. The crash always occurred at:
fileItems = uploader.parseRequest(request);
Note that the List type of fileItems has changed with the current version of commons-fileupload to be specifically List<FileItem> as opposed to prior versions where it was generic List.
I added the source code for commons-fileupload and Commons IO into my Eclipse project to trace the actual error and finally got some insight. First, the exception thrown is of type Throwable not the stated FileIOException nor even Exception (these will not be trapped). Second, the error message is obfuscatory in that it stated class not found because axis2 could not find commons-io. Axis2 is not used in my project at all, but it exists as a folder in the Geronimo repository subdirectory as part of standard installation.
Finally, I found one place that posed a working solution which successfully solved my problem. You must hide the JAR files from the parent loader in the deployment plan. This was put into the geronimo-web.xml file with my full file shown below.
Pasted from http://osdir.com/ml/user-geronimo-apache/2011-03/msg00026.html:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<web:web-app xmlns:app="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-2.0" xmlns:client="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/application-client-2.0" xmlns:conn="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/connector-1.2" xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2" xmlns:ejb="http://openejb.apache.org/xml/ns/openejb-jar-2.2" xmlns:log="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/loginconfig-2.0" xmlns:name="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.2" xmlns:pers="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:pkgen="http://openejb.apache.org/xml/ns/pkgen-2.1" xmlns:sec="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-2.0" xmlns:web="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0.1">
<dep:environment>
<dep:moduleId>
<dep:groupId>DataStar</dep:groupId>
<dep:artifactId>DataStar</dep:artifactId>
<dep:version>1.0</dep:version>
<dep:type>car</dep:type>
</dep:moduleId>
<!-- Don't load commons-io or fileupload from parent classloaders -->
<dep:hidden-classes>
<dep:filter>org.apache.commons.io</dep:filter>
<dep:filter>org.apache.commons.fileupload</dep:filter>
</dep:hidden-classes>
<dep:inverse-classloading/>
</dep:environment>
<web:context-root>/DataStar</web:context-root>
</web:web-app>
Here's an example using apache commons-fileupload:
// apache commons-fileupload to handle file upload
DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
factory.setRepository(new File(DataSources.TORRENTS_DIR()));
ServletFileUpload fileUpload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
List<FileItem> items = fileUpload.parseRequest(req.raw());
FileItem item = items.stream()
.filter(e ->
"the_upload_name".equals(e.getFieldName()))
.findFirst().get();
String fileName = item.getName();
item.write(new File(dir, fileName));
log.info(fileName);
You first have to set the enctype attribute of the form to "multipart/form-data"
This is shown below.
<form action="Controller" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label class="file-upload"> Click here to upload an Image </label>
<input type="file" name="file" id="file" required>
</form>
And then, in the Servlet "Controller" add the Annotation for a Multi-part to indicate multipart data is processed in the servlet.
After doing this, retrieve the part sent through the form and then retrieve the file name (with path)of the submitted file. Use this to create a new file in the desired path and write the parts of the file to the newly created file to recreate the file.
As shown below:
#MultipartConfig
public class Controller extends HttpServlet {
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
insertImage(request, response);
}
private void addProduct(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
Part filePart = request.getPart("file");
String imageName = Paths.get(filePart.getSubmittedFileName()).getFileName().toString();
String imageSavePath = "specify image path to save image"; //path to save image
FileOutputStream outputStream = null;
InputStream fileContent = null;
try {
outputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File(imageSavePath + File.separator + imageName));
// Creating a new file with file path and the file name
fileContent = filePart.getInputStream();
// Getting the input stream
int readBytes = 0;
byte[] readArray = new byte[1024];
// Initializing a byte array with size 1024
while ((readBytes = fileContent.read(readArray)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(readArray, 0, readBytes);
} // This loop will write the contents of the byte array unitl the end to the output stream
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Error Writing File: " + ex);
} finally {
if (outputStream != null) {
outputStream.close();
// Closing the output stream
}
if (fileContent != null) {
fileContent.close();
// Closing the input stream
}
}
}
}
The simplest way I could come up with for files and input controls, without a billion libraries:
<%
if (request.getContentType() == null)
return;
// For input type=text controls
String v_Text =
(new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(request.getPart("Text1").getInputStream()))).readLine();
// For input type=file controls
InputStream inStr = request.getPart("File1").getInputStream();
char charArray[] = new char[inStr.available()];
new InputStreamReader(inStr).read(charArray);
String contents = new String(charArray);
%>
Use:
DiskFileUpload upload = new DiskFileUpload();
From this object you have to get the file items and fields, and then you can store into the server like the following:
String loc = "./webapps/prjct name/server folder/" + contentid + extension;
File uploadFile = new File(loc);
item.write(uploadFile);
You can upload a file using JSP /servlet.
<form action="UploadFileServlet" method="post">
<input type="text" name="description" />
<input type="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
On the other hand, on the server side, use the following code.
package com.abc..servlet;
import java.io.File;
---------
--------
/**
* Servlet implementation class UploadFileServlet
*/
public class UploadFileServlet extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public UploadFileServlet() {
super();
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
response.sendRedirect("../jsp/ErrorPage.jsp");
}
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
HttpSession httpSession = request.getSession();
String filePathUpload = (String) httpSession.getAttribute("path") != null ? httpSession.getAttribute("path").toString() : "" ;
String path1 = filePathUpload;
String filename = null;
File path = null;
FileItem item = null;
boolean isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);
if (isMultipart) {
FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
String FieldName = "";
try {
List items = upload.parseRequest(request);
Iterator iterator = items.iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
item = (FileItem) iterator.next();
if (fieldname.equals("description")) {
description = item.getString();
}
}
if (!item.isFormField()) {
filename = item.getName();
path = new File(path1 + File.separator);
if (!path.exists()) {
boolean status = path.mkdirs();
}
/* Start of code fro privilege */
File uploadedFile = new File(path + Filename); // for copy file
item.write(uploadedFile);
}
} else {
f1 = item.getName();
}
} // END OF WHILE
response.sendRedirect("welcome.jsp");
} catch (FileUploadException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
HTML page
<html>
<head>
<title>File Uploading Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>File Upload:</h3>
Select a file to upload: <br />
<form action="UploadServlet" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file" size="50" />
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Servlet file
// Import required java libraries
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.disk.DiskFileItemFactory;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload;
import org.apache.commons.io.output.*;
public class UploadServlet extends HttpServlet {
private boolean isMultipart;
private String filePath;
private int maxFileSize = 50 * 1024;
private int maxMemSize = 4 * 1024;
private File file;
public void init() {
// Get the file location where it would be stored.
filePath =
getServletContext().getInitParameter("file-upload");
}
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
// Check that we have a file upload request
isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);
response.setContentType("text/html");
java.io.PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
if (!isMultipart) {
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet upload</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<p>No file uploaded</p>");
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
return;
}
DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
// Maximum size that will be stored in memory
factory.setSizeThreshold(maxMemSize);
// Location to save data that is larger than maxMemSize.
factory.setRepository(new File("c:\\temp"));
// Create a new file upload handler
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
// maximum file size to be uploaded.
upload.setSizeMax(maxFileSize);
try {
// Parse the request to get file items.
List fileItems = upload.parseRequest(request);
// Process the uploaded file items
Iterator i = fileItems.iterator();
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet upload</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
while (i.hasNext())
{
FileItem fi = (FileItem)i.next();
if (!fi.isFormField())
{
// Get the uploaded file parameters
String fieldName = fi.getFieldName();
String fileName = fi.getName();
String contentType = fi.getContentType();
boolean isInMemory = fi.isInMemory();
long sizeInBytes = fi.getSize();
// Write the file
if (fileName.lastIndexOf("\\") >= 0) {
file = new File(filePath +
fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf("\\")));
}
else {
file = new File(filePath +
fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf("\\") + 1));
}
fi.write(file);
out.println("Uploaded Filename: " + fileName + "<br>");
}
}
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
}
catch(Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex);
}
}
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
throw new ServletException("GET method used with " +
getClass().getName() + ": POST method required.");
}
}
File web.xml
Compile the above servlet UploadServlet and create the required entry in the web.xml file as follows.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>UploadServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>UploadServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>UploadServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/UploadServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Sending multiple files for file, we have to use enctype="multipart/form-data".
And to send multiple files, use multiple="multiple" in the input tag:
<form action="upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="fileattachments" multiple="multiple"/>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
I have a specialised case where I wish to serve a straight html file from a Controller Action.
I want to serve it from a different folder other than the Views folder. The file is located in
Solution\Html\index.htm
And I want to serve it from a standard controller action. Could i use return File? And
how do I do this?
Check this out :
public ActionResult Index()
{
return new FilePathResult("~/Html/index.htm", "text/html");
}
If you want to render this index.htm file in the browser then you could create controller action like this:
public void GetHtml()
{
var encoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
var htm = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("/Solution/Html/") + "index.htm", encoding);
byte[] data = encoding.GetBytes(htm);
Response.OutputStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
Response.OutputStream.Flush();
}
or just by:
public ActionResult GetHtml()
{
return File(Server.MapPath("/Solution/Html/") + "index.htm", "text/html");
}
So lets say this action is in Home controller and some user hits http://yoursite.com/Home/GetHtml then index.htm will be rendered.
EDIT: 2 other methods
If you want to see raw html of index.htm in the browser:
public ActionResult GetHtml()
{
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", new System.Net.Mime.ContentDisposition { Inline = true, FileName = "index.htm"}.ToString());
return File(Server.MapPath("/Solution/Html/") + "index.htm", "text/plain");
}
If you just want to download file:
public FilePathResult GetHtml()
{
return File(Server.MapPath("/Solution/Html/") + "index.htm", "text/html", "index.htm");
}
I extended wahid's answer to create HtmlResult
Create Html Result which extends FilePathResult
public class HtmlResult : FilePathResult
{
public HtmlResult(string path)
: base(path, "text/html")
{
}
}
Created static method on controller
public static HtmlResult Html(this Controller controller, string path)
{
return new HtmlResult(path);
}
used like we return view
public HtmlResult Index()
{
return this.Html("~/Index.html");
}
Hope it helps
I want put my two cents in. I have found this most terse and it is there already :
public ActionResult Index()
{
var encoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
var html = ""; //get it from file, from blob or whatever
return this.Content(html, "text/html; charset=utf-8");
}
Can you read the html file in a string and return it in action? It is rendered as Html page as shown below:
public string GetHtmlFile(string file)
{
file = Server.MapPath("~/" + file);
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(file);
string text = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
streamReader.Close();
return text;
}
Home/GetHtmlFile?file=Solution\Html\index.htm
If the destination or storage mechanism of HTML files is complicated then you can you Virtual path provider
Virtual path provider MVC sample
Alternative approach if using .net core is to use a FileProvider.
The files could be in a folder or embedded at compile time.
In this example we will use embedded files.
Add a folder in your project let's say assets, in it create a file myfile.html, add some basic html to the file say
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello World
</body>
</html>
Right click on the new file (assuming you are in visual studio) select properties, in the properties screen / build action, select embedded resource. It will add the file to the csproj file.
Right click on your project, edit your csproj file.
Check that your property group contains the following:
<GenerateEmbeddedFilesManifest>true</GenerateEmbeddedFilesManifest>
If not please add it. The csproj should also contain the newly created html file as:
<ItemGroup>
<EmbeddedResource Include="assets\myfile.html" />
</ItemGroup>
To read the file in your controller and pass it to the client requires a file provider which is added to the startup.cs
Edit your startup.cs make sure it includes the HostingEnvironment:
private readonly IHostingEnvironment HostingEnvironment;
public Startup(IHostingEnvironment hostingEnvironment)
{
HostingEnvironment = hostingEnvironment;
}
Then create a file provider and make it a service that can be injected at runtime. Create it as follows:
var physicalProvider = HostingEnvironment.ContentRootFileProvider;
var manifestEmbeddedProvider =
new ManifestEmbeddedFileProvider(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly());
var compositeProvider =
new CompositeFileProvider(physicalProvider, manifestEmbeddedProvider);
services.AddSingleton<IFileProvider>(compositeProvider);
To serve the file go to your controller, use dependency injection to get the FileProvider, create a new service and serve the file. To do this, start with dependency injection by adding the provider to your constructor.
IFileProvider _fileProvider;
public MyController(IFileProvider fileProvider)
{
this._fileProvider = fileProvider;
}
Then use the file provider in your service
[HttpGet("/myfile")]
[Produces("text/html")]
public Stream GetMyFile()
{
// Use GetFileInfo to get details on the file passing in the path added to the csproj
// Using the fileInfo returned create a stream and return it.
IFileInfo fileinfo = _fileProvider.GetFileInfo("assets/myfile.html");
return fileinfo.CreateReadStream();
}
For more info see ASP .Net Core file provider sample and the Microsoft documentation here.