Question

I am trying to upload a PDF file from the browser using Spring’s CommonsMultipartResolver as CommonsMultipartFile. Is it possible to validate the uploaded file is of PDF format only?

Answer 1

MultipartHttpServletRequest multipartRequest = (MultipartHttpServletRequest) request;
Iterator it = (Iterator) multipartRequest.getFileNames();
String fileName = it.next();  
MultipartFile file = multipartRequest.getFile(fileName);
String ext = fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf("."));

if(ext.equalsIgnoreCase(".pdf")) {

    //do  something
}
else
{

        //do  something
}