Question

Having a peculiar problem.

I’m using a FormPanel to send data to a database and uploading a file.

In Chrome this works fine, but in Firefox it sends the data to the database but does not upload the file. Firebug returns the following error:

Form contains a file input, but is missing method=POST and enctype=multipart/form-data on the form.  The file will not be sent.

I found this weird.
Checked the page source code and everything seems fine:

<form target="FormPanel_revanweb_1" action="phpFiles/newBookmark.php" enctype="ENCODING_MULTIPART" method="POST" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px;" class="gwt-TabLayoutPanelContent">

This is how I built the form panel using UiBinder:

<g:FormPanel ui:field="formPanel" action="phpFiles/newBookmark.php" method="POST" encoding="ENCODING_MULTIPART">
    <g:VerticalPanel ui:field="tabNewWrapper" stylePrimaryName="tabNew-wrapper">
        <g:HTMLPanel ui:field="bookmarkNamePanel" styleName="container">
            <g:Label text="Bookmark Name:" />
            <g:TextBox name="txtBookmarkName" ui:field="txtBookmarkName" width="100%" />
        </g:HTMLPanel>
        <g:HTMLPanel ui:field="bookmarkURLPanel" styleName="container">
            <g:Label text="Bookmark URL:" styleName="label" />
            <g:TextBox name="txtBookmarkURL" ui:field="txtBookmarkURL" width="100%" />
        </g:HTMLPanel>
        <g:HTMLPanel ui:field="bookmarkDescriptionPanel" styleName="container">
            <g:Label text="Bookmark Description" styleName="label" />
            <g:TextArea name="txtBookmarkDescription" ui:field="txtBookmarkDescription" width="100%" height="60px" />
        </g:HTMLPanel>
        <g:HTMLPanel ui:field="bookmarkImgUploadPanel" styleName="container">
            <g:Label text="Image:" styleName="label" />                             
                <g:VerticalPanel ui:field="vpForm">
                    <g:FileUpload name="logo" ui:field="uploadFile" />
                </g:VerticalPanel>
        </g:HTMLPanel>
        <g:HTMLPanel ui:field="bookmarkcbActivePanel" styleName="container">
            <g:CheckBox  name="cbActive" ui:field="cbActive" text="Active?" styleName="label" />
        </g:HTMLPanel>
        <g:HTMLPanel ui:field="bookmarkTagsPanel" styleName="container">
            <g:Label text="Tags:" styleName="label" />
            <g:SuggestBox ui:field="sbBookmarkTags" animationEnabled="true" width="100%" />
        </g:HTMLPanel>
        <g:HTMLPanel ui:field="btnOKPanel" styleName="container">
            <g:SubmitButton ui:field="btnSubmit" text="OK" styleName="buttonOK" />
            <g:Label ui:field="lblWarning" visible="false" styleName="warning" />
            <g:Hidden ui:field="sessionID" name="sessionid" visible="false" />
        </g:HTMLPanel>
    </g:VerticalPanel>
</g:FormPanel>

Answer 1

You’re setting the encoding to ENCODING_MULTIPART, not multipart/form-data.

NB: ENCODING_MULTIPART is a constant of type String, its not an enum; setEncoding on FormPanel takes a String as argument; so if you write ENCODING_MULTIPART in your ui.xml, you’ll set the string to "ENCODING_MULTIPART", not the value of the FormPanel.ENCODING_MULTIPART constant (which, btw, can only be referenced in a ui.xml using a <ui:import field="com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.FormPanel.ENCODING_MULTIPART" />, and then used as {ENCODING_MULTIPART})