Aborting upload from a servlet to limit file size

Question

I\'d like to limit the size of the file that can be uploaded to an application. To achieve this, I\'d like to abort the upload process from the server side when the size of

Answer 1

You can do something like this (using the Commons library):

    public class UploadFileServiceImpl extends HttpServlet
    {
        protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException
        {
            response.setContentType("text/plain");

            try
            {
                FileItem uploadItem = getFileItem(request);
                if (uploadItem == null)
                {
                        // ERROR
                }   

                // Add logic here
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                response.getWriter().write("Error: file upload failure: " + ex.getMessage());           
            }
        }

        private FileItem getFileItem(HttpServletRequest request) throws FileUploadException
        {
            DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();        

             // Add here your own limit         
             factory.setSizeThreshold(DiskFileItemFactory.DEFAULT_SIZE_THRESHOLD);

         ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);

             // Add here your own limit
             upload.setSizeMax(DiskFileItemFactory.DEFAULT_SIZE_THRESHOLD);


            List items = upload.parseRequest(request);
            Iterator it = items.iterator();
            while (it.hasNext())
            {
                FileItem item = (FileItem) it.next();
                        // Search here for file item
                if (!item.isFormField() && 
                  // Check field name to get to file item  ... 
                {
                    return item;
                }
            }

            return null;
        }
    }