How to use uploaded images inside JSP pages (Spring MVC) - spring

I'm implementing a web application using Spring MVC. I'm trying to implement the module that allows to upload images. I'm using Apache Commons FileUpload and this is the controller that handle the post request:
/**
* Upload single file using Spring Controller
*/
#RequestMapping(value = "/upload", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String uploadFileHandler(#RequestParam("name") String name,
#RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file) {
if (!file.isEmpty()) {
String fileContentType = file.getContentType();
if (contentTypes.contains(fileContentType)) {
// You have the correct extension
// rest of your code here
try {
byte[] bytes = file.getBytes();
// Creating the directory to store file
String rootPath = System.getProperty("catalina.home");
File dir = new File(rootPath + File.separator + "bills");
if (!dir.exists())
dir.mkdirs();
// Create the file on server
File serverFile = new File(dir.getAbsolutePath()
+ File.separator + name);
BufferedOutputStream stream = new BufferedOutputStream(
new FileOutputStream(serverFile));
stream.write(bytes);
stream.close();
System.out.println("Server File Location="
+ serverFile.getAbsolutePath());
return "redirect:/";
} catch (Exception e) {
//TODO handle error
}
} else {
//TODO handle error
}
} else {
//TODO handle error
}
}
My first doubt is where should i save the images uploaded? Right now the directory is inside a GlassFish folder, is it ok? And I don't know why but the uploaded picture has no extension... is a simple file without any extension!
Now I want to let the user access these images but I don't know how to insert those inside the JSP page. I know that I should save the path inside the database relating it to a specified user but I don't know what to do next. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you very much!

About the way how to use uploaded images, I found this solution that seems working but I don't know if it's the best one or not. Inside the jsp file I have this:
<spring:url value="/file/download/" var="url"/>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="${url}${imageName}"/>
</body>
</html>
Where imageName is a value inside the model that contains, as the name clearly says, the name of the file, and url contains the path of the service that returns the stream of the image. This HTTP request is handled by the following controller:
public #ResponseBody byte[] getImageWithMediaType(#PathVariable("name") String name) throws IOException {
String rootPath = System.getProperty("catalina.home")
String partialPath = File.separator + "bills" + File.separator + name + ".png"
FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(rootPath + partialPath);
InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream(file);
return IOUtils.toByteArray(is);
}
Do you think this is the best way to do so?

Why dont you use Spring Content? Then you don't need to implement any of that controller code at all. Assuming you are using Spring Boot (let me know if you are not) then it would look something like this:
pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.paulcwarren</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-content-rest-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>0.0.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.paulcwarren</groupId>
<artifactId>content-fs-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>0.0.10</version>
</dependency>
SpringBootApplication.java
#SpringBootApplication
public class YourSpringBootApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(YourSpringBootApplication.class, args);
}
#Configuration
#EnableFilesystemStores
public static class StoreConfig {
File filesystemRoot() {
String rootPath = System.getProperty("catalina.home");
File dir = new File(rootPath + File.separator + "bills");
if (!dir.exists())
dir.mkdirs();
}
// this bean is the spring resource loader that will be used by
// the product store
#Bean
public FileSystemResourceLoader fsResourceLoader() throws Exception
{
return new FileSystemResourceLoader(filesystemRoot().getAbsolutePath());
}
}
#StoreRestResource(path="upload")
public interface BillStore extends Store<String> {
//
}
}
Note that you are not writing any controller code here but this is enough to create a REST-based content service at /upload that actually supports full CRUD functionality (as well as video streaming in case that us useful to you). Create == POST, Read == GET (include byte-range support), Update == PUT, Delete == DELETE.
e.g.
POST /upload/my-image.jpg
will store the uploaded image to System.getProperty("catalina.home") + File.Separator + "bills" + "my-image/jpg".
I am assuming you want your users to eventually be able to view their images after upload, upload new versions and possibly delete as well. Given this /upload is probably not a great name. But it is what you used in the question so what I went with in my answer. IF you really do just want upload functionality then you can use Spring Security to make the other actions impossibly to perform.

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Multipart File to file error

I want to upload a multipart file to AWS S3. So, i have to convert it.
But new File method needs a local location to get the file.
I am able to do in local. But running this code in every machine seems like a issue.
Please find both scenarios.
Working
private File convertMultiPartToFile(MultipartFile multipartFile) throws IOException {
File convFile = new File("C:\\Users\\" + multipartFile.getOriginalFilename());
multipartFile.transferTo(convFile);
return convFile;
}
Not working
private File convertMultiPartToFile(MultipartFile multipartFile) throws IOException {
File convFile = new File(multipartFile.getOriginalFilename());
multipartFile.transferTo(convFile);
return convFile;
}
Error received :
java.io.FileNotFoundException: newbusiness.jpg (Access is denied)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:213)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:162)
You could use Spring Content S3. This will hide the implementation details so you don't need to worry about them.
There are Spring Boot starter alternatives but as you are not using Spring Boot add the following dependency to your pom.xml
pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.paulcwarren</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-content-s3</artifactId>
<version>0.0.11</version>
</dependency>
Add the following configuration that creates a SimpleStorageResourceLoader bean:
#Configuration
#EnableS3Stores
public class S3Config {
#Autowired
private Environment env;
public Region region() {
return Region.getRegion(Regions.fromName(env.getProperty("AWS_REGION")));
}
#Bean
public BasicAWSCredentials basicAWSCredentials() {
return new BasicAWSCredentials(env.getProperty("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"), env.getProperty("AWS_SECRET_KEY"));
}
#Bean
public AmazonS3 client(AWSCredentials awsCredentials) {
AmazonS3Client amazonS3Client = new AmazonS3Client(awsCredentials);
amazonS3Client.setRegion(region());
return amazonS3Client;
}
#Bean
public SimpleStorageResourceLoader simpleStorageResourceLoader(AmazonS3 client) {
return new SimpleStorageResourceLoader(client);
}
}
Create a "Store":
S3Store.java
public interface S3Store extends Store<String> {
}
Autowire this store into where you need to upload resources:
#Autowired
private S3Store store;
WritableResource r = (WritableResource)store.getResource(getId());
InputStream is = // plug your input stream in here
OutputStream os = r.getOutputStream();
IOUtils.copy(is, os);
is.close();
os.close();
When your application starts it will see the dependency on spring-content-s3 and your S3Store interface and inject an implementation for you, therefore, you don't need to worry about implementing this yourself.
IF you writing some sort of web application or microservice and you need a REST API then you can also add this dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.paulcwarren</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-content-rest</artifactId>
<version>0.0.11</version>
</dependency>
Update your S3Config.java as follows:
#Configuration
#EnableS3Stores
#Import(RestConfiguration.class)
public class S3Config {
...
Update your store as follows:
S3Store.java
#StoreRestResource(path="s3docs")
public interface S3Store extends Store<String> {
}
Now when your application starts it will see your Store interface and also inject an #Controller implementation that will forward REST request onto your store. This replaces the autowiring code above obviously.
Then:
curl -X POST /s3docs/example-doc
with a multipart/form-data request will store the image in s3.
curl /s3docs/example-doc
will fetch it again and so on. This controller supports full CRUD and video streaming by the way.
If you want to associate this "content" with JPA Entity or something like that then you can have your S3Store extend AssociateStore or ContentStore and you have additional methods available that provide for associations.
There are a couple of getting started guides here. The s3 reference guide is here. And there is a tutorial video here. The coding bit starts about 1/2 way through.
HTH
Since it needs a temporary location to place files. Below code worked after deploying war on AWS.
private File convertMultiPartToFile(MultipartFile multipartFile) throws IOException {
File convFile = new File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") + System.getProperty("file.separator") +
multipartFile.getOriginalFilename());
multipartFile.transferTo(convFile);
return convFile;
}
You have problems with relative Paths
You can do this
public class UploadStackoverflow {
private String location = "upload-dir";
private Path rootLocation;
public File convertFile(MultipartFile file) throws IOException {
rootLocation = Paths.get(location);
Files.createDirectories(rootLocation);
String filename = StringUtils.cleanPath(file.getOriginalFilename());
InputStream inputStream = file.getInputStream();
Files.copy(inputStream, this.rootLocation.resolve(filename),
StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
return new File(this.rootLocation.resolve(filename).toAbsolutePath().toString());
}
}

How to upload an image or a video to a persistant folder in class-path with Spring-Boot?

I am new in Spring-Boot...
I want to upload images or videos, and store them in a persistant folder "upload-storage" in the class-path of my project in the server. I don't want to store them in the database (20 Mo).
Spring-Boot store them in target/upload-storage.
That functions : I can show the videos on the view with the controller and Thymeleaf. I can close tomcat, close the browser, and open them again : that functions.
But the day after, upload-storage is disapeared !
I think that I don't use the good process.
But I found how to upload an image : ok. I found how to show images from a folder in class-path : ok. I found how to upload images to database. But nothing to store the uploaded images in a persistant folder.
Can you help me ? Can you tell me the good process ?
Some details :
I have an entity "video" to store name, extension, length,... of the video.
I have "VideoRepository" and "VideoService" to manage the requests with "Video".
I have a "StorageService" and "StorageServiceImpl" to manage the upload of video and images : It as to upload the video and save it in a folder called "upload-storage" : I will come back on it farther.
I have a videoForm.html first with a form to select a file and send it to "UploadController", then an other form to show the video, the datas extracted from the video, modify the name or add precisions, and send this form to a "VideoController" who save the entity.
A part of the code of "UploadController" :
`
#Controller
public class UploadController extends BaseController {
private final StorageService storageServiceImpl;
#Autowired
public UploadController(StorageService storageServiceImpl) {
this.storageServiceImpl = storageServiceImpl;
}
#PostMapping("/upload")
public String recupereUpload(#RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file,Model model){
String filename ="";
try {
final long limit = 200 * 1024 * 1024;
if (file.getSize() > limit) {
model.addAttribute("message", "Taille du fichier trop grand (>200MB)");
model.addAttribute("ok", false );
}
filename = storageServiceImpl.store(file);
model.addAttribute("filename", filename);
model.addAttribute("message", "Le téléchargement de " + filename+" est réussi !");
} catch (Exception e) {
model.addAttribute("message", "FAIL to upload " + filename + "!");
model.addAttribute("ok", false );
}
Video video = new Video();
model.addAttribute("ok", true );
model.addAttribute("video", video);
String baseName = storageServiceImpl.getBaseName(filename);
String ext = storageServiceImpl.getExtension(filename);
model.addAttribute("nom", baseName);
model.addAttribute("ext", ext);
model.addAttribute("nomorigin", filename);
model.addAttribute("size", Math.round(file.getSize()/1024));
String typExt = storageServiceImpl.getType(ext);
model.addAttribute("typExt", typExt);
return "elementVideo/videoForm";
}
`
"StorageServiceImpl" has different methods :
getExtension(String filename){...}
getType(String ext){...}
getType(String ext){...}
getBaseName(String filename){...}
The main method is store(MultipartFile file) {...} :
#Service
public class StorageServiceImpl implements StorageService {
private final Path storageLocation = Paths.get("upload-storage");
#Override
public String store(MultipartFile file) {
try {
// Vérification de l'existence :
if (file.isEmpty()) {
throw new Exception("Failed to store empty file " + file.getOriginalFilename() );
}
// Vérification de la nature et traitement du fichier uploadé :
String ext = getExtension(file.getOriginalFilename());
String[] extAutorise = {"mp4", "avi","ogg","ogv","jpg","jpeg","png","gif"};
String fileNameTarget ="";
if ( ArrayUtils.contains( extAutorise, ext)) {
//Définir le fichier destination :
fileNameTarget = file.getOriginalFilename();
fileNameTarget = fileNameTarget.replaceAll(" ", "_");
File dir = storageLocation.toFile();
String serverFile = dir.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + fileNameTarget ;
try {
try (InputStream is = file.getInputStream();
BufferedOutputStream stream = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(serverFile))
) {
int i;
while ((i = is.read()) != -1) {
stream.write(i);
}
stream.flush();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("error : " + e.getMessage());
}
}
return fileNameTarget;
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException("FAIL!");
}
}
`
With this code, a folder "upload-storage" is created at the root of the project.
The video is uploaded in this folder...
But in "videoForm.html", the code
<video id="video" th:src="'/upload-storage/'+${filename}" height="60"
autoplay="autoplay"></video>
shows nothing.
I have an other solution.
In StorageServiceImpl, I use the code :
private final String storageLocation = this.getClass().getResource("/static/").getPath();
at place of :
private final Path storageLocation = Paths.get("upload-storage");
then :
File dir = new File(storageLocation + File.separator + "upload-storage");
at place of :
File dir = storageLocation.toFile();
then :
File serverFile = new File(dir.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + fileNameTarget);
at place of :
String serverFile = dir.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + fileNameTarget ;
With this solution, upload-storage is created in target folder.
I use an other controller BaseController :
public class BaseController {
public static final String PARAM_BASE_URL = "baseURL";
public String getBaseURL(HttpServletRequest request){
return request.getScheme() + "://" + request.getServerName() + ":" + request.getServerPort() + request.getContextPath();
}
}
`
UploadController extends this BaseController.
I add HttpServletRequest request in recupereUpload() :
#PostMapping("/upload")
public String recupereUpload(#RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file,
Model model, HttpServletRequest request ){
I add in the model sent by recupereUpload :
model.addAttribute(PARAM_BASE_URL, getBaseURL(request));
And at last, I can see my video in videoForm.html with the code :
<video id="video" th:src="${baseURL}+'/upload-storage/'+${filename}" height="60" autoplay="autoplay"></video>
I can close Tomcat, close Eclipse, close the machine, and open all again : all is preserved and I can see the video.
But some time later : all is disappeared.
There must be a better solution.
Can you help me ?
Why dont you use Spring Content for the video content portion of your solution? That way you won't need to implement any of the video content handling. Spring Content will provide this for you. To add Spring Content to your project:
Add Spring Content to your classpath.
pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.paulcwarren</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-content-rest-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>0.0.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.paulcwarren</groupId>
<artifactId>content-fs-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>0.0.10</version>
</dependency>
Associate content with your Video entity.
Video.java
#Entity
public class Video {
...
#ContentId
private String contentId;
#ContentLength
private Long contetLen;
#MimeType
private String mimeType;
...
Set up a "persistent folder" as the root of your video store. This is where uploaded videos will be stored/streamed from. Also create a VideoStore interface to describe to SC how you want to associate your content.
SpringBootApplication.java
#SpringBootApplication
public class YourSpringBootApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(YourSpringBootApplication.class, args);
}
#Configuration
#EnableFilesystemStores
public static class StoreConfig {
File filesystemRoot() {
return new File("/path/to/your/videos");
}
#Bean
public FileSystemResourceLoader fsResourceLoader() throws Exception {
return new FileSystemResourceLoader(filesystemRoot().getAbsolutePath());
}
}
#StoreRestResource(path="videos")
public interface VideoStore extends ContentStore<Video,String> {
//
}
}
This is all you need to create a REST-based video service at /videos. Essentially, when your application starts, Spring Content will look at your dependencies (seeing Spring Content FS/REST), look at your VideoStore interface and inject an implementation of that interface based on the filesystem. It will also inject a controller that forwards http requests to that implementation as well. This saves you having to implement any of this yourself.
So...
POST /videos/{video-entity-id}
with a multipart/form-data request will store the video in /path/to/your/videos and associate it with the video entity whose id is video-entity-id.
GET /videos/{video-entity-id}
will fetch it again. This supports partial content requests or byte ranges; i.e. video streaming too.
and so on...support full CRUD.
There are a couple of getting started guides here. The reference guide is here. And there is a tutorial video here. The coding bit starts about 1/2 way through.
HTH
Did you enable the upload by adding the following property in the application.properties file?
## MULTIPART (MultipartProperties)
# Enable multipart uploads
spring.servlet.multipart.enabled=true
I have written an article about how to upload a multipart file in spring boot using thymeleaf. Here is the service used for the upload.
package com.uploadMultipartfile.storage;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
#Service
public class FileSystemStorageService implements StorageService
{
private final Path rootLocation;
#Autowired
public FileSystemStorageService(StorageProperties properties) {
this.rootLocation = Paths.get(properties.getUploadDir()).toAbsolutePath().normalize();
try {
Files.createDirectories(this.rootLocation);
} catch (Exception ex) {
throw new StorageException("Could not create the directory where the uploaded files will be stored.", ex);
}
}
#Override
public String store(MultipartFile file)
{
// Normalize file name
String fileName = StringUtils.cleanPath(file.getOriginalFilename());
try
{
if (file.isEmpty())
{
throw new StorageException("Failed to store empty file " + file.getOriginalFilename());
}
// Copy file to the target location (Replacing existing file with the same name)
Path targetLocation = this.rootLocation.resolve(fileName);
Files.copy(file.getInputStream(), targetLocation, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
return fileName;
}
catch (IOException e)
{
throw new StorageException("Failed to store file " + file.getOriginalFilename(), e);
}
}
#Override
public void init()
{
try
{
Files.createDirectory(rootLocation);
}
catch (IOException e)
{
throw new StorageException("Could not initialize storage", e);
}
}
}
Here is a link to get the code of the application. http://mkaroune.e-monsite.com/pages/spring/spring-boot-multipart-file-upload.html

How to download data from url?

I can download data via HttpUrlConnection and InputStream but I need to download raw-data. So, i want to create a DownloadManager via raw-data, then using raw-data I convert this data to binary or image format. According to my research, I see "download file from url" but I can't download file in mac? Always, I get FileNotFoundException. Please help me. How I can download data from url?
public class DownloadData extends AsyncTask<Void,Void,Void> {
#Override
protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
try {
downloadData("https://blablalabla/get");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
public void downloadData(String myurl) throws IOException {
URL u = new URL(myurl);
InputStream is = u.openStream();
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(is);
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int length;
OutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/Users/ilknurpc/Desktop/text.docx"));
while ((length = dis.read(buffer))>0) {
fos.write(buffer, 0, length);
}
}
}
If you want to construct a workable download manager, I would suggest that you take a look at the
Tomcat Default Servlet Implementation
.
There a few number of HTTP headers that you need to understand such as E-Tags and Http Range Headers for a proper implementation.
Thankfully the Tomcat Default Servlet handles the prerequisites for you.
You can adapt this servlet in your code with minor changes (package declaration etc).

Downloading uploaded files from Amazon S3 service in a Spring MVC web app

I have a problem of downloading my uploaded files from amazon s3 service. I have succesfully implemented the upload section, all I need is to download these file to my local hardrive the view them later. My application is a spring mvc application.
This is my controller to call the download service
#Controller
public class fileController{
#Autowired S3Service s3Service;
#Autowired AwsConfig awsConfig;
#Autowired Environment env;
#Autowired DocRepository docRepo;
#RequestMapping(value="downloadDocume")
public void downloadDocument(#RequestParam("docId") Long docId
,HttpServletRequest request ,HttpServletResponse response)){
Document doc = docRepo.findOne(docId);
String docName = doc.getAsset().getName();
String ASSET_PATH = awsConfig.getBaseUrl()+"/"+
awsConfig.getBucket()+"/";
if (Objects.equals(env.getProperty("spring.profiles.active"),"prod")){
ASSET_PATH= awsConfig.getBaseUrl()+"/"+
awsConfig.getBucket()+"/";
}
String filtered = StringUtils.delete(docName, ASSET_PATH);
String mimetype = request.getSession().getServletContext().getMimeType(filtered);
FileStream file = s3Service.getAssetByName("/Documents/", filtered);
response.setContentType(mimetype);
response.setContentLength((int) file.getSize());
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=\"" + docName +"\"");
FileCopyUtils.copy(file.getInputStream(), response.getOutputStream());
}
}
//This is my S3Sservice class with the download method
#Service
public class S3Service{
public FileStream getAssetByName(String path , String name)
throws FileNotFoundException{
AmazonS3Client s3 = new AmazonS3Client(
new BasicAWSCredentials(awsConfig.getAccessKey(), awsConfig.getSecretKey()));
s3.setEndpoint(awsConfig.getBaseUrl());
s3.setS3ClientOptions(new S3ClientOptions().withPathStyleAccess(true));
S3Object obj = s3.getObject(new GetObjectRequest(awsConfig.getBucket(), getS3Path(path) + name));
return new FileStream(obj.getObjectContent(), obj.getObjectMetadata().getContentLength());
}
}
Wow.. The solution was very simple.. I just used the the html download link and passed the parameters on my jsp like this. This is i my document.jsp
<a class="btn btn-primary" href="${document.asset.name}" download="${document.asset.name}">Download Document</a>
I change my downloadDocument() in my controller to look like this
public void downloadDocument(#RequestParam("docId") Long docId
,HttpServletRequest request ,HttpServletResponse response)){
Document doc = docRepo.findOne(docId);
model.addAtribute("document" , doc);
return "document";
}
}

Uploading multiple files using Spring MVC 3.0.2 after HiddenHttpMethodFilter has been enabled

Important : This question is completely useless for any Spring version higher than 3.0.4 as the issue discussed in this thread had been fixed in that version a long ago and is no longer reproducible in subsequent versions of Spring.
I'm using Spring version 3.0.2. I need to upload multiple files using the multiple="multiple" attribute of a file browser such as,
<input type="file" id="myFile" name="myFile" multiple="multiple"/>
(and not using multiple file browsers something like the one stated by this answer, it indeed works I tried).
Although no versions of Internet Explorer supports this approach unless an appropriate jQuery plugin/widget is used, I don't care about it right now (since most other browsers support this).
This works fine with commons fileupload but in addition to using RequestMethod.POST and RequestMethod.GET methods, I also want to use other request methods supported and suggested by Spring like RequestMethod.PUT and RequestMethod.DELETE in their own appropriate places. For this to be so, I have configured Spring with HiddenHttpMethodFilter which goes fine as this question indicates.
but it can upload only one file at a time even though multiple files in the file browser are chosen. In the Spring controller class, a method is mapped as follows.
#RequestMapping(method={RequestMethod.POST}, value={"admin_side/Temp"})
public String onSubmit(#RequestParam("myFile") List<MultipartFile> files, #ModelAttribute("tempBean") TempBean tempBean, BindingResult error, Map model, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, FileUploadException {
for (MultipartFile file : files) {
System.out.println(file.getOriginalFilename());
}
}
Even with the request parameter #RequestParam("myFile") List<MultipartFile> files which is a List of type MultipartFile (it can always have only one file at a time).
I could find a strategy which is likely to work with multiple files on this blog. I have gone through it carefully.
The solution below the section SOLUTION 2 – USE THE RAW REQUEST says,
If however the client insists on using the same form input name such
as ‘files[]‘ or ‘files’ and then populating that name with multiple
files then a small hack is necessary as follows. As noted above Spring
2.5 throws an exception if it detects the same form input name of type file more than once. CommonsFileUploadSupport – the class which throws
that exception is not final and the method which throws that exception
is protected so using the wonders of inheritance and subclassing one
can simply fix/modify the logic a little bit as follows. The change
I’ve made is literally one word representing one method invocation
which enables us to have multiple files incoming under the same form
input name.
It attempts to override the method
protected MultipartParsingResult parseFileItems(List fileItems, String encoding){}
of the abstract class CommonsFileUploadSupport by extending the class CommonsMultipartResolver such as,
package multipartResolver;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartException;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartFile;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver;
public final class MultiCommonsMultipartResolver extends CommonsMultipartResolver {
public MultiCommonsMultipartResolver() {}
public MultiCommonsMultipartResolver(ServletContext servletContext) {
super(servletContext);
}
#Override
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
protected MultipartParsingResult parseFileItems(List fileItems, String encoding) {
Map<String, MultipartFile> multipartFiles = new HashMap<String, MultipartFile>();
Map multipartParameters = new HashMap();
// Extract multipart files and multipart parameters.
for (Iterator it = fileItems.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
FileItem fileItem = (FileItem) it.next();
if (fileItem.isFormField()) {
String value = null;
if (encoding != null) {
try {
value = fileItem.getString(encoding);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
if (logger.isWarnEnabled()) {
logger.warn("Could not decode multipart item '" + fileItem.getFieldName()
+ "' with encoding '" + encoding + "': using platform default");
}
value = fileItem.getString();
}
} else {
value = fileItem.getString();
}
String[] curParam = (String[]) multipartParameters.get(fileItem.getFieldName());
if (curParam == null) {
// simple form field
multipartParameters.put(fileItem.getFieldName(), new String[]{value});
} else {
// array of simple form fields
String[] newParam = StringUtils.addStringToArray(curParam, value);
multipartParameters.put(fileItem.getFieldName(), newParam);
}
} else {
// multipart file field
CommonsMultipartFile file = new CommonsMultipartFile(fileItem);
if (multipartFiles.put(fileItem.getName(), file) != null) {
throw new MultipartException("Multiple files for field name [" + file.getName()
+ "] found - not supported by MultipartResolver");
}
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug("Found multipart file [" + file.getName() + "] of size " + file.getSize()
+ " bytes with original filename [" + file.getOriginalFilename() + "], stored "
+ file.getStorageDescription());
}
}
}
return new MultipartParsingResult(multipartFiles, multipartParameters);
}
}
What happens is that the last line in the method parseFileItems() (the return statement) i.e.
return new MultipartParsingResult(multipartFiles, multipartParameters);
causes a compile-time error because the first parameter multipartFiles is a type of Map implemented by HashMap but in reality, it requires a parameter of type MultiValueMap<String, MultipartFile>
It is a constructor of a static class inside the abstract class CommonsFileUploadSupport,
public abstract class CommonsFileUploadSupport {
protected static class MultipartParsingResult {
public MultipartParsingResult(MultiValueMap<String, MultipartFile> mpFiles, Map<String, String[]> mpParams) {}
}
}
The reason might be - this solution is about the Spring version 2.5 and I'm using the Spring version 3.0.2 which might be inappropriate for this version.
I however tried to replace the Map with MultiValueMap in various ways such as the one shown in the following segment of code,
MultiValueMap<String, MultipartFile>mul=new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, MultipartFile>();
for(Entry<String, MultipartFile>entry:multipartFiles.entrySet()) {
mul.add(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
}
return new MultipartParsingResult(mul, multipartParameters);
but no success. I'm not sure how to replace Map with MultiValueMap and even doing so could work either. After doing this, the browser shows the Http response,
HTTP Status 400 -
type Status report
message
description The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect
().
Apache Tomcat/6.0.26
I have tried to shorten the question as possible as I could and I haven't included unnecessary code.
How could be made it possible to upload multiple files after Spring has been configured with HiddenHttpMethodFilter?
That blog indicates that It is a long standing, high priority bug.
If there is no solution regarding the version 3.0.2 (3 or higher) then I have to disable Spring support forever and continue to use commons-fileupolad as suggested by the third solution on that blog omitting the PUT, DELETE and other request methods forever.
Very little changes to the code in the parseFileItems() method inside the class MultiCommonsMultipartResolver might make it upload multiple files but I couldn't succeed in my attempts (again with the Spring version 3.0.2 (3 or higher)).
For upload multiple files in one request I used this code:
I have such jsp:
<p>Select files to upload. Press Add button to add more file inputs.</p>
<table>
<tr>
<td><input name="files" type="file" multiple="true"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input name="files" type="file" multiple="true"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br/><input type="submit" value="Upload" />
File upload class bean:
import org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartFile;
public class FileUploadForm {
private CommonsMultipartFile [] files;
public CommonsMultipartFile[] getFiles() {
return files;
}
public void setFiles( CommonsMultipartFile[] files ) {
this.files = files;
}
}
Controller:
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/upload")
public class FileUploadController {
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String displayForm(ModelMap modelMap) {
modelMap.addAttribute( new FileUploadForm() );
return "uploadForm.jsp";
}
#RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String save(FileUploadForm uploadForm) {
CommonsMultipartFile[] files = uploadForm.getFiles();
if(files != null && files.length != 0) {
for(MultipartFile file : files) {
System.out.println( file.getOriginalFilename() );
}
}
return "success.jsp";
}
}
This code allows to upload multiple files in one request,
and be possible to get instance of CommonsMultipartFile for each file.
The issue as mentioned in the question was fixed as of Spring 3.0.4. As such, if you happened to use that version or higher (yes, it is 4.x.x now), you would not need to read this question/answer(s) anymore.

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