I see... Yes this does help. Thank you Oleg!
Regards, Per torsdagen den 24 februari 2005 19.07 skrev Oleg Kalnichevski: > Per, > > The servlet specification does not require support for so called > multipart/form-data formatted requests and most servlet engines I know > of do not provide support for it out of the box. You need to use a > server side library capable of parsing multipart/form-data requests in > order to be able to access individual parameters (parts) > > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/fileupload/ > > Hope this helps > > Oleg > > On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 17:48 +0100, Per Nyfelt wrote: > > I have a servlet running in Tomcat 5 that i want to handle file transfers > > (upload and download) of big files (>32 MB). However, I am unable to find > > a way for HttpClient to set parameters properly for the servlet to read > > them. > > > > The servlet has a service() method defined with the following logic: > > > > public void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse > > response) { > > String requestType = request.getParameter("TYPE"); > > String fileName= request.getParameter("FILE_NAME"); > > > > if ("upload".equals(requestType)) { > > uploadDocument(fileName, request, response); > > } else if ("download".equals(requestType)) { > > downloadDocument(fileName, response); > > } else { > > sendParameterError(requestType, fileName); > > } > > } > > > > The issue is that requestType and fileName end up as null for all my > > attempts to set parameters. > > > > Here's some examples of code I've tried for the upload part (I am using > > 3.0 rc1): > > > > 1. This is the only one that works (i.e. putting the request parameters > > in the url): > > > > public void testUpload() { > > File file = new File("test.zip"); > > HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); > > PostMethod httppost = new > > PostMethod("http://localhost:8080/test/FiletServlet?TYPE=download&FILE_NA > >ME=" + file.getName()); > > httppost.setRequestEntity(new InputStreamRequestEntity( > > new FileInputStream(file), file.length())); > > try { > > client.executeMethod(httppost); > > if (httppost.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) { > > System.out.println(httppost.getResponseBodyAsString()); > > } else { > > System.out.println("Unexpected failure: " + > > httppost.getStatusLine().toString()); > > } > > } finally { > > httppost.releaseConnection(); > > } > > } > > > > 2. This is what I would like to do: > > public void testUpload2() { > > File file = new File("test.zip"); > > HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); > > PostMethod httppost = new > > PostMethod("http://localhost:8080/test/FileServlet";); > > httppost.addParameter("TYPE", "upload"); > > httppost.addParameter("FILE_NAME", file.getName()); > > httppost.setRequestEntity(new InputStreamRequestEntity( > > new FileInputStream(file), file.length())); > > > > try { > > client.executeMethod(httppost); > > > > if (httppost.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) { > > System.out.println(httppost.getResponseBodyAsString()); > > } else { > > System.out.println("Unexpected failure: " + > > httppost.getStatusLine().toString()); > > } > > } finally { > > httppost.releaseConnection(); > > } > > } > > > > 3. I have also tried setting parameters in the HttpClient: > > File file = new File("test.zip"); > > HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); > > client.getParams().setParameter("TYPE", "upload"); > > client.getParams().setParameter("FILE_NAME", file.getName()); > > > > PostMethod httppost = new > > PostMethod("http://localhost:8080/test/FileServlet";); > > httppost.setRequestEntity(new InputStreamRequestEntity( > > new FileInputStream(file), file.length())); > > > > try { > > client.executeMethod(httppost); > > ....etc... > > > > 4. and also tried using NameValuePair: > > File file = new File("test.zip"); > > HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); > > PostMethod httppost = new > > PostMethod("http://localhost:8080/test/FileServlet";); > > NameValuePair type = new NameValuePair("TYPE", "upload"); > > NameValuePair fileName = new NameValuePair("FILE_NAME", > > file.getName()); > > httppost.setRequestBody(new NameValuePair[] {type, fileName}); > > > > httppost.setRequestEntity(new InputStreamRequestEntity( > > new FileInputStream(file), file.length())); > > > > try { > > client.executeMethod(httppost); > > ...etc..... > > > > But all variations on this theme given me null on both parameters on the > > servlet side. Maybe I have misunderstood something but is there no way to > > set request parameters one by one and sending them in the POST instead of > > building up a GET-type string with all parameters passed in the > > constructor for the PostMethod? > > > > Please advice. > > > > Best regards, > > Per > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
