Using com.oreilly.servlet for upload to different directories

[James Gordon]

My form allow users to upload 2 files, both to a different directories. When we create the MultipartRequest, we need to specific a location. And then, everything would go inside there.
MultipartRequest m =
new MultipartRequest
(request, "e:/loc", 1024 * 1024);
Is there anyway to go around this?

Thanks in advance.

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[Garann Means]

ehchn1,
Does the "save directory" location have to be the absolute path? Does your code work a location like the one in your example?
Thanks!
g.

[Sandeep Jain]

Well , what I feel here there is no way u can achieve this fuctionality without modifying the MultipartRequest.java file .
So what u can do is inside the constructor of MultipartRequest file u can check for the file type or ur condition on which u want to put ur file in the respective directory and make the call to its other constructor which takes 2 parameters and can set the direcory also .

[Mike Curwen]

Upload both files to a temporary holding directory, and just move them after they are uploaded.

There is a related question in the cos faq:

How can I select a directory for the uploaded files based on some information sent in the
upload request?
 
Again, the protocol doesn't make this easy. In fact, there's no guarantee the browser will send the 
parameter information before the files. The safest approach is to create a temporary directory, upload 
the files into there, then after the upload move the files and/or the directory into the proper location.

[ August 10, 2002: Message edited by: Mike Curwen ]

[James Gordon]

Hi,
Thanks for all the feedbacks.
I managed to get in touch with the creater of the package. According to him, I have to use the MultipartParser instead if I want more controls.
Else I have to do like what Mike pointed out, which is dumping the files to a temporary directory first.
But personally, I would say that the 2nd solution is not that feasible because my code would be platform dependent then. Moving the files manually is a waste of effort, thus what I can think of is by using the Runtime class to move the files automatically. To do that, I have to invoke the OS command which is not the same for all platforms.

Thanks.

[Mario Rendon]

Mike's Solution is the one i addopted but unfortunatelly if the client press the stop button before the file is uploaded . then in your temp dir there will be some garbage and you have to include a Garbage colection schema ..
Mike have yod had that problem ??