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uploading files, using more than one element in the form

 
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Dear all,

I am using Jakarta Commons for uplaoding file. the files are uploaded correctly, the problem is if i have in tha same form for uploading a file other form elemenrs like a text field, whenever i use the requesti.getParameter() it returns null althoug this text field is inside hte same form as the file input?? so how to include other inpt fields with the file??

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getParameter() will not work with multi-part forms. You'll need to check the API for the upload package for how it supports obtaining the parameters.
 
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Hi Maha,

If you are using apache commons, the parseRequest(..) method gives you the list of FileItem's, the form fields will be part of that list.

You can use isFormField() method on the FileItem (while enumerating the list) to verify if its a form field, and you can get the value of the form field using getString() and name of the field using getFieldName() methods on FileItem.

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Srivatsa Katta
 
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Hi Srivatsa,

Thanks a lot for your reply, It was very helpful.

I was wondering if I want the content of the file as byte[] what shall I do, I know I will use the fileItem.getInputStream() but I do not know how to use it any help!!

Thanks a lot
 
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Hi all,

I found that I can use to get the byte array for the file, i can then add it to a session and use it from the servlet to write the file to the server

Thanks
 
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