7 Working with Files 7 CHAPTER | | i 110.1 Uploading Files ; : 7 Upload is a term used to describe the process of transferring (sending) a fil et another computer through a modem or network. Below are a few examples of how a file may be uploaded to another computer. Examples of an Uploaded file : © Over a network : If you are connected to a network you can upload a file to another computer or share using file sharing. @ Over FTP, Telnet, or SSH : If you want to share something on the Internet, or have a personal web page, you would upload the files to a computer or server connected to the Internet. FTP is the most common method of uploading files. Supporting file uploads is a very basic and common requirement for many web applications. The Servlet 3.0 specification supports file upload out of the box, so any web container that implements the specification can parse multipart requests and make mime attachments available through the HttpServletRequest object. A new annotation, javaxservlet annotation. MultipartConfig, the servlet on which it is declared exp. Important points 1. DiskFileltemFactory is default Facto, ‘m. When A, read ‘multipart content and {generates Fileltem, this implementation enya in memory or in disk as temporary fil, i i default DiskFiettemFactory has threshold cize of wee nS UPON threshold size. py in temp directory, returned values are configurable. You ‘me ission i : ble. yt permission issues i Cains Server doesnt have suffice. sermission fo writes nen Ceeount Used for Choose threshold size carefully based upon memory usage, keeping lace 0 memory may result in javalang,OwtOfMemory exception, while pane content in values may result in lots of temporary files, ’ while having too small ry class for Filelte4 # oor Enterprise Java (T-Y.B.S¢.-I.) (Sem p 3. Apache commons file upload also provides FileCleaningTracker to delete tempo files created by DiskFileltemFactory. The FileCleaningTracker deletes temporary files as soon as corresponding File instance is garbage collected. It accomplish this a cleaner thread which is created when FileCleaner is loaded. If you use this feature than remember to terminate this Thread when your web application ends. 4, Keep configurable details e.g. upload directory, maximum file size, threshold size etc in config files and use reasonable default values in case they are not configured, 5. It's good to validate size, type and other details of Files based upon your projec requirement e.g. you may want to allow upload only images of certain size and certain types e.g. JPEG, PNG etc. 10.1.1 @MultipartConfig This annotation is used to indicate that the Servlet on which it is declared expecs requests to made using the multipart/form-data MIME type. We need to annotate File Upload handler servlet with MultipartConfig annotation to handle multipart/form-data requests that is used for uploading file to server. MultipartConfig annotation has following attributes : 1, fileSizeThreshold This attribute Specify size threshold when saving the upload file temporarily. If the upload file's size is greater than this threshold, it will be stored in disk. Otherwise the fie | is stored in memory. Size in bytes. Defaults is 0. | IL. location This attribute Specify directory where upload files are stored. Default”, IIL. maxFileSize | This attribute Specify maximum size of an upload file. Size in bytes, Defaults # AL IV. maxRequestSize This attribute Specify maximum size of a rex quest (includi es other form data). Size in bytes. Defaults is -1L, (including both upload files a" 10.1.2 Creating a File Upload Form The following HTM coae below creates an uy important points to be noted down while coding : © The form method attribute should be set to POs cannot be used. ploader form. Following are th ST method and GET method © 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 fil uploading at backend server. Following example is using UploadServlet servlet | upload file. © To upload a single file you should use a single tag with attribut! type"file". To allow multiple files uploading, include more thay one input 8° with different values for the name attribute. The browser associates’ a Brow? button with each of them. Stitle>File Uploading Form + a |7 Working with Files woe

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