try nested tags for file object in jsp and array of formfile for getter and setters
<nested:file -----Original Message----- From: Jeremiah Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 6:23 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: FormFile arrays David Grundberg wrote: > You are right about the jakarta commons fileupload and struts, you > can't use commons fileupload in an action, because struts have already > taken care of the multi-part parsing. You do have the option to make a > servlet and commons fileupload, where you will have total control of > the form data. I'm not certain about your way of making the files go > into an array. Is that the way to do it with for example html:text? > One would expect it to work in a similar fashion. > > http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=915898 > This link suggests that you use the same name all over again for each > entry, like "notworkingfile", "notworkingfile", and so on... > I've done this with html:text and it does work. The catch is that html:file requires the property attribute to be specified. I could make a class with accessors for each FromFile. That seems convoluted.. I'm hoping for a simpler solution then that. I'll post code if I can make this work. > > Jeremiah Johnson skrev: >> I would like to upload multiple files on a single web page by having >> multiple <html:file> elements. The exact number of these are >> different depending on the user who is using the application. So I >> want to store this in an array (FormFile[]) in order to have N number >> of files uploaded. When I try to use <html:file/> tags in an iterate >> loop (with indexed="true") I get an error about requiring property >> attribute. There's isn't a good way of doing that so I just rendered >> the the HTML with scriplets. It looks something like: >> >> >> <input type="file" name="workingfile"/> >> <input type="file" name="notworkingfile[0]"/> >> <input type="file" name="notworkingfile[1]"/> >> <input type="file" name="notworkingfile[2]"/> >> >> The form has getters and setters for workingfile (of type FormFile) >> and notworkingfile ( of type FormFile[] that is 3 elements). >> workingfile is assigned an instantied object however each element of >> notworkingfile[] is null after submit. >> >> I then attempted to use commons-fileupload-1.1.1 in a struts action >> (struts 1.2.9) to read the uploaded data but it does not recognize >> that any files are being uploaded (including workingfile). I tried >> this code: >> >> List items = new ServletFileUpload( >> new DiskFileItemFactory()).parseRequest(request); >> >> items results in an empty collection (but not null). I've read that >> you can not use commons-fileupload in a struts action which may be >> why that doesn't work. Anyone know how to have variable number of >> file upload boxes? I know I could have properties for each file >> (file1,file2,file3 and so on) instead of array but I'd rather not >> implement it that way. Thanks! >> >> Jeremiah >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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]
