File getName on Linux platform

Question

Hello, I am trying to utilize the Jakarta commons upload component. When I try to run the following locally, it works:
while(i.hasNext()) {
     FileItem item = (FileItem)i.next();
     File fullFile  = new File(item.getName());
     logger.info("Name is " + item.getName());
     File savedFile = new File(getServletContext().getRealPath("/"), fullFile.getName());
     logger.info("SavedFile is " + savedFile.toString());
     item.write(savedFile);
}However, when I deploy this to a Linux server, it doesn't work properly since the fullFile.getName() line is returning the full path and not just extracting the file name. I read that is because Linux allows the '\' and such in filenames. Is there a way around this?

Answer 1

Not sure if you got an answer but I just ran into this issue too. The issue is that the \ character is valid in a file name on Linux.
What I ended up doing is translating the \ character to / in the path. To get the name then you have to create a File object with the translated name then us the getName() method.
while(i.hasNext()) {
     FileItem item = (FileItem)i.next();
     File fullFile = new File(item.getName());
     logger.info("Name is " + item.getName());
// I added these three lines and changed the object in the savedFile instantiation to tempFile
String tempName = fullFile.getName();
tempName = tempName.replace('\\','/');
FIle tempFile = new File(tempName);
     File savedFile = new File(getServletContext().getRealPath("/"), tempFile.getName());
     logger.info("SavedFile is " + savedFile.toString());
     item.write(savedFile);
}