How to read a input type file in servlet and display the contents of a file in servlet

[Viswanathan Pachaiyappan]

I have a jsp page wherein i have to passs the file as input and read the contentsn of a file in servlet.

upload.jsp

<FORM METHOD=POST ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="upload"> File to upload: <INPUT TYPE=FILE NAME="upfile">
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit">

upload.java

//In upload servlet page i have tried to read the contents of a file in doPost method. I have used

String t1=request.getParameter("upfile");

//It shows null. How to read the content in a file and display in servlet?

[Maneesh Godbole]

Welcome to the Ranch.
We have forum dedicated for servlet questions. I will move your post over there for you.

[Bear Bibeault]

Please see the JspFaq for information on file uploading.

Also, using all uppercase for HTML sort of went out of fashion in 1998. I'd catch up with the conventions of the times and use all lowercase.

[Daniel Val]

Viswanathan Pachaiyappan wrote:I have a jsp page wherein i have to passs the file as input and read the contentsn of a file in servlet.

upload.jsp

<FORM METHOD=POST ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="upload"> File to upload: <INPUT TYPE=FILE NAME="upfile">
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit">

upload.java

//In upload servlet page i have tried to read the contents of a file in doPost method. I have used

String t1=request.getParameter("upfile");

//It shows null. How to read the content in a file and display in servlet?

Hi,

It is more complicated than that. The multipart request has a more convoluted structure and you should not start from scratch with its processing.

Please get the library FileUpload from Apache Jakarta, study how to operate with it and that will provide you a solution for your problem.

There are also web frameworks that provide transparent file processing (like Struts etc), but of course your question was about servlets.

Best Regards,
D