Question

I am using spring, spring security, hibernate. Got a jsp page where i am trying to upload a file, and backend a i have a controller to capture and store the file uploaded. I am using tomcat. I am using spring security for login authentication. Getting the following error when i upload the file
HTTP Status 405 – Request method ‘POST’ not supported
Any ideas?

Answer 1

You will need to ensure your request handler is able to accept a POST. You can also configure Spring to use a MultipartResolver to aid you in getting your request parts.

Configuration of MultiPartResolver

@Bean(name = "mulitpartResolver")
public MultipartResolver multipartResolver() {
    if (multipartResolver == null) {
        multipartResolver = new CommonsMultipartResolver();
    }
    return multipartResolver;
}

Here is the request mapping:

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST, value = "/some/post/url")
public void postFile(MultipartHttpServletRequest request) {
    MultipartFile multipartFile = request.getFileMap().get("keyForFileInFormPost");
    ...
}

Note, that sometimes this will not work with Spring Security. You can look at my blog post here on using multipartrequestresolvers with spring security for help:

http://www.adamweigold.com/2012/01/using-multpartrequestresolvers-with.html