Empty List when trying to upload many files in Spring with ng-file-upload

Question

I have the following controller method for uploading multiple files at once, inspired by this blog post and answers to this question as well:

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Answer 1

That works for me, sending big 'email' object with multiple file attachments from UI to back-end:

Angular

sendEmailWithAttachments(taskId: string, template: string, email: any, modelConfig: any, files: any[]) {
    let formData = new FormData();
    formData.append('form', new Blob([JSON.stringify(email)], {type: 'application/json'}));
    files.forEach(file  => {
        formData.append('files', file);
    });

    return this.$http({
        method: 'POST',
        data: formData,
        url: this.baseUrl + '/' + taskId + '/email-with-attachment?template=' + template,
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': undefined
        },
        responseType: 'arraybuffer'
    });
}

Java Spring

@RequestMapping(value = "{taskId}/email-with-attachment", method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes = MULTIPART_FORM_DATA_VALUE)
public void sendEmailWithAttachment(
        @PathVariable String taskId,
        @RequestParam String template,
        @RequestParam("form") MultipartFile form,
        @RequestParam("files") List files) throws IOException {
    Map parameters = new ObjectMapper().readValue(form.getInputStream(), HashMap.class);

    System.out.println("taskId", taskId);
    System.out.println("template", template);
    System.out.println("files", files);
    System.out.println("parameters", parameters);
}