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Servlets File Uploading

This document discusses how to allow file uploading from an HTML form to a servlet in Java. It provides code for an HTML file upload form, an UploadServlet class to handle the file upload on the server, and instructions for compiling and configuring the servlet in web.xml.

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Servlets File Uploading

This document discusses how to allow file uploading from an HTML form to a servlet in Java. It provides code for an HTML file upload form, an UploadServlet class to handle the file upload on the server, and instructions for compiling and configuring the servlet in web.xml.

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SERVLETS - FILE UPLOADING

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/servlets/servlets-file-uploading.htm Copyright © tutorialspoint.com

A Servlet can be used with an HTML form tag to allow users to upload files to the server. An
uploaded file could be a text file or image file or any document.

Creating a File Upload Form:


The following HTM code below creates an uploader form. Following are the important points to be
noted down:

The form method attribute should be set to POST method and GET method can not be used.

The form enctype attribute should be set to multipart/form-data.

The form action attribute should be set to a servlet file which would handle file uploading at
backend server. Following example is using UploadServlet servlet to upload file.

To upload a single file you should use a single <input .../> tag with attribute type="file". To
allow multiple files uploading, include more than one input tags with different values for the
name attribute. The browser associates a Browse button with each of them.

<html>
<head>
<title>File Uploading Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>File Upload:</h3>
Select a file to upload: <br />
<form action="UploadServlet" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file" size="50" />
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

This will display following result which would allow to select a file from local PC and when user
would click at "Upload File", form would be submitted along with the selected file:

File Upload:
Select a file to upload:

NOTE: This is just dummy form and would not work.

Writing Backend Servlet:


Following is the servlet UploadServlet which would take care of accepting uploaded file and to
store it in directory <Tomcat-installation-directory>/webapps/data. This directory name could also
be added using an external configuration such as a context-param element in web.xml as
follows:
<web-app>
....
<context-param>
<description>Location to store uploaded file</description>
<param-name>file-upload</param-name>
<param-value>
c:\apache-tomcat-5.5.29\webapps\data\
</param-value>
</context-param>
....
</web-app>

Following is the source code for UploadServlet which can handle multiple file uploading at a time.
Before procedding you have make sure the followings:

Following example depends on FileUpload, so make sure you have the latest version of
commons-fileupload.x.x.jar file in your classpath. You can download it from
http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/.

FileUpload depends on Commons IO, so make sure you have the latest version of commons-
io-x.x.jar file in your classpath. You can download it from http://commons.apache.org/io/.

While testing following example, you should upload a file which has less size than
maxFileSize otherwise file would not be uploaded.

Make sure you have created directories c:\temp and c:\apache-tomcat-5.5.29\webapps\data


well in advance.

// Import required java libraries


import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.disk.DiskFileItemFactory;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload;
import org.apache.commons.io.output.*;

public class UploadServlet extends HttpServlet {

private boolean isMultipart;


private String filePath;
private int maxFileSize = 50 * 1024;
private int maxMemSize = 4 * 1024;
private File file ;

public void init( ){


// Get the file location where it would be stored.
filePath =
getServletContext().getInitParameter("file-upload");
}
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {
// Check that we have a file upload request
isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);
response.setContentType("text/html");
java.io.PrintWriter out = response.getWriter( );
if( !isMultipart ){
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet upload</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<p>No file uploaded</p>");
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
return;
}
DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
// maximum size that will be stored in memory
factory.setSizeThreshold(maxMemSize);
// Location to save data that is larger than maxMemSize.
factory.setRepository(new File("c:\\temp"));

// Create a new file upload handler


ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
// maximum file size to be uploaded.
upload.setSizeMax( maxFileSize );

try{
// Parse the request to get file items.
List fileItems = upload.parseRequest(request);

// Process the uploaded file items


Iterator i = fileItems.iterator();

out.println("<html>");
out.println("<head>");
out.println("<title>Servlet upload</title>");
out.println("</head>");
out.println("<body>");
while ( i.hasNext () )
{
FileItem fi = (FileItem)i.next();
if ( !fi.isFormField () )
{
// Get the uploaded file parameters
String fieldName = fi.getFieldName();
String fileName = fi.getName();
String contentType = fi.getContentType();
boolean isInMemory = fi.isInMemory();
long sizeInBytes = fi.getSize();
// Write the file
if( fileName.lastIndexOf("\\") >= 0 ){
file = new File( filePath +
fileName.substring( fileName.lastIndexOf("\\"))) ;
}else{
file = new File( filePath +
fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf("\\")+1)) ;
}
fi.write( file ) ;
out.println("Uploaded Filename: " + fileName + "<br>");
}
}
out.println("</body>");
out.println("</html>");
}catch(Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex);
}
}
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {

throw new ServletException("GET method used with " +


getClass( ).getName( )+": POST method required.");
}
}
Compile and Running Servlet:
Compile above servlet UploadServlet and create required entry in web.xml file as follows.

<servlet>
<servlet-name>UploadServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>UploadServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>UploadServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/UploadServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Now try to upload files using the HTML form which you created above. When you would try
http://localhost:8080/UploadFile.htm, it would display following result which would help you
uploading any file from your local machine.

File Upload:

Select a file to upload:

If your servelt script works fine, your file should be uploaded in c:\apache-tomcat-
5.5.29\webapps\data\ directory.

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