Thanks, That would work. But still I'll have to have FormFile in to
ActionForm which is not seriliazable. Giving me error
IOException while loading persisted sessions: java.io.WriteAbortedException:
writing aborted; java.io.NotSerializableException:
org.apache.commons.fileupload.DeferredFileOutputStream
java.io.WriteAbortedException: writing aborted;
java.io.NotSerializableException:
org.apache.commons.fileupload.DeferredFileOutputStream
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java
:1303)
Kedar
On 12/22/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Kedar Panse wrote:
> > Hello gurus,
> >
> > I want to use a wizard type of flow where in one screen there is File
> > Upload. As this is wizard, i was using session scoped formbean with
> one
> > property formfile. But seems like formfile is not serializable. What
> is
> > proper way of handling this?
>
> Given that a file could be arbitrarily large, is doesn't really make
> sense to store it in the session. I'd suggest saving it to temporary
> disk and replacing the reference in the form bean with the path to the
> temporary file. You can then reload the temp file when your wizard is
> ready to deal with it.
>
> So, in your action when the file upload is received, stream it to a temp
> file, set the form bean property for the uploaded file to null, and set
> another property to the path to the temp file. The form bean should then
> serialize without problem, and you can get at the file later when you
> need to.
>
> L.
>
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