Question

I have a file upload form that is being posted back to a servlet (using multipart/form-data encoding). In the servlet, I am trying to use Apache Commons to handle the upload. However, I also have some other fields in the form that are just plain fields. How can I read those parameters from the request?

For example, in my servlet, I have code like this to read in the uplaoded file:

    // Create a factory for disk-based file items     FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();     // Create a new file upload handler     ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);     // Parse the request     Iterator /* FileItem */ items = upload.parseRequest(request).iterator();     while (items.hasNext()) {         FileItem thisItem = (FileItem) items.next();         ... do stuff ...     } 

Answer 1

You could try something like this:

while (items.hasNext()) {         FileItem thisItem = (FileItem) items.next();         if (thisItem.isFormField()) {             if (thisItem.getFieldName().equals('somefieldname') {                 String value = thisItem.getString();                 // Do something with the value             }         }      }