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i am using multipart request for uploading the file in servlet if the user upload the same name for different file it will be overwrited can any body tell how to solve the problem?



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The file will only be overwritten if you save it under the same name. You should check if the file exists before saving the newly uploaded file,a dn take appropriate action if that's the case. Which file upload library are you using?
 
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i am not able to check whether the file is already exist or not.multipart request will upload the file in folder at the time of request is coming.so image also overwrited
 
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What kind of software is handling the request? Why can't it check for existing files? That seems like a rather fundamental thing for it to be able to do.
 
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A simple way to solve it is to generate a random number and add it to your file name before the upload.
 
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MultipartRequest request = new MultipartRequest(req,context.getRealPath((context.getInitParameter("ProductImagePath"))),5*1024*1024);
Enumeration<String> e = request.getFileNames();
ArrayList<String> imageFileNames = new ArrayList<String>();
while(e.hasMoreElements()) {
imageFileNames.add(request.getFilesystemName(e.nextElement().toString()));

}

hai ulf
can you tell how to check file is already exist using multipartrequest?

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I'm not familiar with the API you're using, but isn't "request.getFilesystemName(e.nextElement().toString())" a file name? I'm assuming that you know in which directory files should be stored, so you should be able to check whether a file of this name already exists in that directory, no?
 
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yes i want to check the file is already exist in the directory
 
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can any body tell how to check file is already in the directory?
 
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http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#exists()
 
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