Jakarta Commons FileUpload and Servlets

[Scott Parmley]

Hello everyone!
I am trying to use the 1.0 release of Jakarta Commons FileUpload for handling multipart requests. Once I submit the form to my servlet, the request gets processed by DiskFileUpload.parseRequest(HttpServletRequest request), but the resulting size of the List is 0!!! I've checked to see that the request is indeed a multipart request. I'm not throwing any exceptions. Anyone have any experience with this?
Environment: JBoss+Jetty 3.2.1
Windows2k
HTML:
[...]
<form action="http://parmleys:8080/bq-issue/attachment-proc" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="attachmentsForm" class="gridItem" id="attachmentsForm">
<div align="center">Upload:
<input type="hidden" name="fileName">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="write">
<input type="hidden" name="issueID" value="9648">
<input name="uploadFile" type="file" class="gridItem">
<input type="submit" name="Upload" value="Upload" class="gridItem">
</div>
</form>
Java Snippet:

[...]
    public void writeUpload(HttpServletRequest request) {
        try {
DiskFileUpload fbase = new DiskFileUpload();
                
                fbase.setSizeMax(10000);
                fbase.setSizeThreshold(10000);
                fbase.setRepositoryPath(location);
                
if(fbase.isMultipartContent(request)) {
                    System.out.println("IS MULITPART....HANDLING.");
                    List fitems = fbase.parseRequest(request);
                    
                    
                    
                    Iterator fit = fitems.iterator();
                    String issueID = new String();
                    String fileName = new String();
                    
                    while(fit.hasNext()) {
                        FileItem f = (FileItem)fit.next();
                        if(f.isFormField()) {
                            String a = f.getFieldName();
                            
                            if(a.equals("issueID")) {
                                issueID = f.getString();
                                System.out.println("IssueID: "+issueID);
                            }
                            else if(a.equals("fileName")) {
                                fileName = f.getString();
                                System.out.println("FileName: "+fileName);
                            }
                        }
                        else {
                            System.out.println("Attachment Name: "+f.getName());
                            System.out.println("Type: "+f.getContentType());
                            f.write(new File(location+File.separator+issueID+File.separator+fileName));
                        }
                    }
                }
                else {
                    System.out.println("NOT MULTIPART!");
                }

}
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
    }

[Yuval Zukerman]

I do not know about the Jakarta Commons upload but this library did the job for me and is pretty simple to understand.
http://www.servlets.com/cos/index.html
Good luck,
Yuval