Receiving multipart request

[Lloyd Lamington]

Hi,

I have written a code to upload the files to a server on the client side using multipart.. I would like to know how to receive these files on the server side. Can anybody provide me with the sample code ?

Thanks,
Lloyd

[ujjwal soni]

Hi,

As you are uploading the files from client to the server, your files are already recieved on the server.

[Lloyd Lamington]

i am actually running a servlet on my machine to get the multipart request. I need to write the code to get the multipart request in the servlet.

Thanks

[ujjwal soni]

I did'nt get you. You are saying that you want a servlet on server side that handles multipart requests but you are currently doing this locally on your machine then, why dont you write your servlet code running locally into the servlet thats running on the server ?

[Tim McGuire]

try using apache commons fileupload.
read here all about file upload


in your servlet
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.*;

//  factory for disk-based file items   This tells ServletFileUpload how to store the files.
// by default, if file is larger than 10KB, this will create a temporary file on disk
// this temp file will be located, by default in the directory defined by the system property java.io.tmpdir
FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();

// ServletFileUpload handles the file uploads in the request:
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);

// the parseRequest() method puts all the request parameters into a List
List items = upload.parseRequest(request);

// the list "items" is contains every element in the form that was submitted.

To use the "FileItems" in items, you would iterate through the list and check each item to see if it is a form field or not.
contents form fields would get processed as strings. non-form fields can be treated as files. uploaded files should be saved using streams instead of trying to store the contents in memory.

again, the link explains everything, including tracking progress of uploads, dealing with antivirus scanners, and cleaning up temp files. enjoy.

[Charbel Keyrouz]

check this site as well (oreilly's cos.jar)
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1045507