getting the parameters from multipart/form-data

[Jim Halpert]

My JSP:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="auction">
	<table>
	  <tr>
	    <td>Title</td>
		<td><input type="text" name="title"/></td>
	  </tr>
	  <tr>
	    <td>Picture</td>
	    <td><input type="file" name="pic"/></td>
	  </tr>
        </table>
</form>

My Servlet:

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
		System.out.println("Title: "+request.getParameter("title"));
}

In the console you will see 'Title: null'

[Bear Bibeault]

The getParameter() family of methods will not work with anything other than data encoded as x-www-form-urlencoded.

if you are using a 3rd-party library to assist in the file upload, it will have methods to fetch the parameters. If you are parsing the multi-part request yourself (not recommended!), well, then you need to parse out the parameters yourself.

[Jim Halpert]

I am using:
commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar
&
commons-io-2.0.1.jar

Do you know which method to call so I can get the parameters? (I could not find anything in the API list)

[olivier dutranoit]

everything is explained very well in here:

http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/using.html

[Jim Halpert]

olivier dutranoit wrote:everything is explained very well in here:

http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/using.html

That helped me alot, I got it working!! Thanks a lot.