I had the same requirement to just retrieve the original (client side) file
location and not the file itself. This was because I develop strictly for
an Intranet (and not trying to get peoples file names unwillingly or
anything) and the users had mapped drives to the same shared server. One
use would fill out a request asking where a specific file was located on the
mapped drive and the other user would fill out a form with the file name
only but it was convenient to browse to the file for accuracy. Any these
files could literally be a gig in size.
With those requirements it meant that the best way was to browse to the file
and return only the full path name to the Web/Container server not
necessarily the whole file. I assume that is what you want to do?
This is what I did:
I created two forms on the JSP page. One was a "dummy" form and the other
the real form. The real form was nothing but hidden fields. The submit
button for the "dummy" form (the form you could actually see) was not a
submit but a button and it went to a JavaScript method with then did a copy.
JavaScript function contents:
function submitReal(form1)
{
form2 = document.forms[1];
form2.personName.vaule = form1.personName.value;
form2.file1Name.value = form1.file.value;
...
form2.submit();
}
Where form2.file1Name was of type html:hidden and form1.file1 was of type
html:file.
I hope this helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Massie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:43 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: uploadfile path
its only the original file's location that i require, i can't find any
mention of how to aquire this in any online articles.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 06 August 2003 16:24
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: uploadfile path
Folow the Struts upload example, you can trace thru how Struts gets the
client file and upload to server where you have to do extra work to copy
data from FormFile (its stream buffer) to the your choice of server
location.
-Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yansheng Lin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:18 AM
Subject: RE: uploadfile path
> <html:form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
> <html:file property="theFile" />
> </html:form>
>
> theFile is type of FormFile. You can go from there.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Massie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: August 6, 2003 2:35 AM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: uploadfile path
>
>
> I am trying to upload a file using html:file which is received as a
> FormFile, the problem is I need to find out this files absolute path. Hwo
> can I retrieve this information?
>
> Thanks
> Daniel
>
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