File upload with ServletFileUpload's parseRequest? [duplicate]

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• How to upload files to server using JSP/Servlet? 12 answers

I upload the file which I browse with input type="file" in my web App. The issue is I get the FileItem list size as 0 though I can see all uploaded file info under

request -> JakartaMutltiPartRequest -> files attribute

Here is java code that reads the file

public InputStream parseRequestStreamWithApache(HttpServletRequest request)
  throws FileUploadException, IOException {
  InputStream is = null;
  FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
  ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
  List items = upload.parseRequest(request);
  // here the item size is 0 ,i am not sure why i am not getting my file upload in browser with type="file"
  // but If inspect request in debugger i can see my file realted info in request--->JakartaMutltiPartRequest----->files attribute
  Iterator iter = items.iterator();
  while (iter.hasNext()) {
    FileItem item = (FileItem) iter.next();

    if (!item.isFormField()) {
      is = item.getInputStream();
    }
  }

  return is;
}

EDIT:

Here is JSP part:

<form NAME="form1" action="customer/customerManager!parseRequestStreamWithApache.action" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"   method="post" >
     <TABLE >
         <tr>
              <th>Upload File</th>
                  <td>
                   <input name="fileUploadAttr" id="filePath"  type="file" value="">
                 </td>
                  <td > 
                 <Input type="submit" value ="uploadFile"/>
                  </td>
          </tr>
    </TABLE>
</form>

Answer 1

As I said in a comment to the same question, you posted earlier, this is most likely because you have parsed the request already before. The files are part of the request body and you can parse it only one time.

Update:

I usually do use commons-upload in that way:

if (ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request)) {
    ServletFileUpload fileUpload = new ServletFileUpload();
    FileItemIterator items = fileUpload.getItemIterator(request);
    // iterate items
    while (items.hasNext()) {
        FileItemStream item = items.next();
        if (!item.isFormField()) {
            is = item.openStream();
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

You should check for multipart content

boolean isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);

if (isMultipart) {
    FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
    ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);

    try {
        List items = upload.parseRequest(request);
        Iterator iterator = items.iterator();
        while (iterator.hasNext()) {
            FileItem item = (FileItem) iterator.next();
            if (!item.isFormField()) {
                String fileName = item.getName();

                String root = getServletContext().getRealPath("/");
                File path = new File(root + "/fileuploads");
                if (!path.exists()) {
                    boolean status = path.mkdirs();
                }

                File uploadedFile = new File(path + "/" + fileName);
                item.write(uploadedFile);
            }
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {

Answer 3

How big are the files you are uploading? You might be over the default threshold. I think the default is 10K

factory.setSizeThreshold(maxSizeYouWantToHandle);

Answer 4

If you are using weblogic 12 then check whether the patch_wls1211 is insatlled or not. I was having the same issue and it resolved after applying patch_wls1211.