Good question! Why don't you bring that up at Jason's seminar at
JavaOne?
:-)
Cheers!
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dion Almaer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: Curious: Why isn't Multipart built into the servlet API?
> Hi guys -
>
> When I have to deal w/ multipart (form upload etc), I use the
O'reilly code.
> When I work w/ multipart in other languages
> it is built in. Why isn't this the case w/ servlets? I would
like to be
> able to change the ENCTYPE in the form,
> without having to change the servlet that reads in that info.
Right now it
> is tightly coupled. Ideally
> I would like to be able to do:
>
> req.getParameter("name"); <- can read in whether multitype or
not
>
> and for the files either:
>
> // just get it as a string
> String contents = (String) req.getParameter("uploadedfile");
> // convention means that <formname>-filename returns the name
of the file
> that was uploaded
> String filename = (String)
req.getParameter("uploadedfile-filename");
>
> OR:
>
> // Returns a special type that allows you to write out the
file, call
> mpfile.getName() etc.
> MultipartFile mpfile = (MultipartFile)
req.getParameter("uploadedfile");
>
> Dion
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