Accessing Request Parameters from ActionRequest with form/multipart

Hi,
I have a weblogic producer portlet which has form enctype="multipart/form-data". Now although I have correctly set the action according to JSR 168 standards like:
<form name="Checkin" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data"
action='<abcportlet:createURI><abcportlet:URIAction value="active.document.doUpdate"/></abcportlet:createURI>'>
but in my processAction method, I am not able to retrive the action parameter. Infact actionRequest's getParameter returned null.
On further investigation, I found that this is occurring due to enctype and some solutions suggested to use commons file upload. I have used the commons upload and retrieve the parameters but am not able to retrieve the action parameters that is embedded in wsrp-interactionState.
Is there any way of how I can get hold of the portlet action parameter?
Thanks,
Ansuman
Edited by: anshuman.roy on Dec 11, 2008 10:18 AM

Hello Ansuman,
Unfortunately, you have found a bug in WLP's implementation of the JSR168 form decoding- there is no way for you to get the form parameters and the action parameters at the same time. We already have a fix for the next version of WLP- if you open a support case to get a patch issued, please refer to CL (not CR) 1169718. If you would like for me to open a change request for you, which might speed up the support process, please let me know what version of WLP you are using.
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