struts multipart saveDir

[Ivan Krasic]

Hello,

i saw that struts by default upload the file into the project temp

by example : i put the destination here :

    request.getServletContext().getRealPath("/img/categorie")  

the file get uploaded here :

    G:\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\Struts2\img\categorie  

instead of :

    G:\workspace\Struts2\WebContent\admin\img\categorie  

in result i cant see the picture uploaded in eclipse project tree folder

Regards

[Joe Ess]

Ivan Krasic wrote:
i saw that struts by default upload the file into the project temp

It does not upload a file into the project temporary directory. It (meaning Apache Commons File Upload) uploads the file to the servlet container's temporary directory. Note that the Struts documentation states "Uploaded files should be processed or moved by your Action class to ensure the data is not lost." so you should not be looking in the temp directory anyway.
Most applications I am aware of either upload the file to a "flat file" database (i.e. a directory structure created from identifying data so the file can be located later) or a "real" SQL database (as a BLOB).

[Ivan Krasic]

Joe Ess wrote:

Ivan Krasic wrote:
i saw that struts by default upload the file into the project temp

It does not upload a file into the project temporary directory. It (meaning Apache Commons File Upload) uploads the file to the servlet container's temporary directory. Note that the Struts documentation states "Uploaded files should be processed or moved by your Action class to ensure the data is not lost." so you should not be looking in the temp directory anyway.
Most applications I am aware of either upload the file to a "flat file" database (i.e. a directory structure created from identifying data so the file can be located later) or a "real" SQL database (as a BLOB).

what i have done is create a mysql column called picturename (string) which store only the name of the picture
the idea is when submit the form i concatenate the id of the categorie and date and save the that value into the picturestring name
and then the uploaded file goes by default to /img/categorie folder

so when listing the categorie i should just put the picturename value between img tag

using this function

private static void copyFileUsingStream(File source, File dest) throws IOException {
	    InputStream is = null;
	    OutputStream os = null;
	    try {
	        is = new FileInputStream(source);
	        os = new FileOutputStream(dest);
	        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
	        int length;
	        while ((length = is.read(buffer)) > 0) {
	            os.write(buffer, 0, length);
	        }
	    } finally {
	        is.close();
	        os.close();
	    }
	}

 String filePath = request.getSession().getServletContext().getRealPath("/img/categorie/");

   File source = new File(this.getPictureName());
    File dest = new File(request.getServletContext().getRealPath(filecocname) );
     copyFileUsingStream(source, dest);

[Joe Ess]

You have to do two things:
1. put the file somewhere you can reliably access it. As I have pointed out earlier, the temp directory is not reliable.
2. create some way to recover the file. I usually make an action that takes the appropriate arguments and reference that action in an IMG tag.

[Ivan Krasic]

Joe Ess wrote:You have to do two things:
1. put the file somewhere you can reliably access it. As I have pointed out earlier, the temp directory is not reliable.
2. create some way to recover the file. I usually make an action that takes the appropriate arguments and reference that action in an IMG tag.

i dont want it to put into temp : by default goes that

is there a way to get realPath without temp ?

mean
G:\workspace\Struts2\WebContent\admin\img\categorie

instead of
G:\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\Struts2\img\categorie

i use

request.getServletContext().getRealPath("/img/categorie") 

[Joe Ess]

A deployed application knows nothing about the source project it was deployed from. You are thinking of your application as built in to Eclipse and not as a stand-alone application.