File Uploading in JSF

I am facing problem with File Uploding. :(( Could you please provide me some pointers for this.
If possible detailed example is good for me as I am new to JSF
I know how to use Jakartas File Upload Component. Can you provide me some pointers regarding this in JSF.
Thanks
Sudhakar

I appretiate if you could point me out to the location of file upload component in the JSC. I know how to do it in servlets - just parse mime-multipart stream, but have no idea how to implement file upload/download in the JSC.
Thank you for your help!

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Error while during file upload in JSF

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     at javax.servlet.ServletRequestWrapper.getParameter(ServletRequestWrapper.java:157)
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     at jsf.PagePhaseListener.afterPhase(PagePhaseListener.java:18)
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but that answer is not solve my question. Actually i want to know.. can we develope a custom tag in JSF for file upload......

File Upload problem: JSF, IBM WPS and Portlet - Please HELP Vey Very Urgent

I want to upload a file from the front end using JSF and Portlets deployed on IBM WebSphere Portal.
I have used Apache's commons file upload functionality as the file upload provided in JSF doesnot work with portlets and the action event is not invoked If I keep enctype="multipart/form-data". So I included 3 forms in my Faces JSP file.
1) h:form = For displyign error message on screen
2) html:form = Include the enctype="multipart/form-data" and the input type file for uploading. And a submit button
3) h:form: Here I have a command link which is remotely excuted on click of sumit button in my html form. This is to invoke the action event in the pagecode to get the bean value from the context.
Now in the my doView method in the portlet, isMultipartContent(httpservletrequest) always returns null as the content type is text/html and not multipart. Onclick of the submit button in the the html form I am calling a javascript function which sets the __LINK_TARGET__ to the command link in the 3rd h:form which will call the page code.
The problem here is action is invoked only when I return false from the above javascript else it will trigger for the first time and from second time onwards it will not invoke the action event in the pagecode method. Whent the javascript function returns false, the content type is always text/html. However if I return "true" from the javascript the content type is multipart/form-data, but the action is not triggered for the second time. So basically when the javascript functions returns true, for the first click everything works perfectly. When it returns false, the content type is text/html, but the action is invoked in the page code every time.
Returning always true would solve my problem with the content type, but the action with the command link will not get invoked always as its some type of problem with h:commanLink :(.
I guess I gave too much info. Heres my code stepby step.
Can somebody please tell me , how I should also invoke the action in the page code and get the content type as "multipart/form-data" at the same time.
1:
======================= Faces JSP File: BPSMacro.jsp ====================
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="IBM Software Development Platform">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/portlet" prefix="portlet"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.ibm.com/jsf/html_extended" prefix="hx"%>
<%@taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/j4j.tld" prefix="j4j"%>
<%@taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/core.tld" prefix="core"%>
<%@page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
     pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" session="false"%>
<portlet:defineObjects />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
     href='<%= renderResponse.encodeURL(renderRequest.getContextPath() + "/theme/stylesheet.css") %>'
     title="Style">
<script type="text/javascript">
function formSubmit() {
     var formName2 = document.getElementById("proxy_form_main_").title;
     var formName1 = document.getElementById("BPSMacroFormId").title;
     document.getElementById("__LINK_TARGET__").value = document.getElementById("proxy_HD_COMMAND_").title;
     document.getElementById(formName2).submit();
     return false;
</script>
<f:view>
     <hx:scriptCollector id="bpsMacroScriptCollector">
          <f:loadBundle var="bps" basename="bordereauprocessingsystem" />
          <table bgcolor="#FFF9C3">
               <tr>
                    <td><h:form id="BPSMacroFormMain" styleClass="form">
                         <table class="tablemiddle" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                              <tr>
                                   <td><h:messages layout="table" styleClass="errormessage"
                                             id="ValidationErrorMsg" /> </td>
                              </tr>
                         </table>
                         <j4j:idProxy id="proxy_form_main_0_" />
                    </h:form></td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                    <td>
                    <form id="BPSMacroFormId" enctype="multipart/form-data">
                    <table bgcolor="#FFF9C3">
                         <tr>
                              <td height="36" width="324">Worksheet <input type="file"
                                   name="upfile" /></td>
                         </tr>
                              <tr>
                                   <td align="center" width="324"><input TYPE="submit"
                                   onclick="return formSubmit();" value="Upload">
                              </td>
                         </tr>
                    </table>
                    </form>
                    </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                    <td>
                    <h:form id="BPSMacroFormMain2" styleClass="form">
                         <table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" class="tablemiddle">
                              <tbody>
                                   <tr>
                                        <td colspan="2" align="center"><h:commandLink
                                             styleClass="commandLink" id="lnkuserdelete"
                                             action="#{pc_BPSMacro.doIdUpload1Action}">
                                             <hx:graphicImageEx
                                                  styleClass="graphicImageEx" id="imgBtnCreateUser"
                                                  value="/theme/images/btnUpload.gif" style="border:0;cursor:pointer"></hx:graphicImageEx>
                                             <j4j:idProxy id="proxy_HD_COMMAND_" />
                                        </h:commandLink></td>
                                        <h:inputHidden id="dtSize"
                                             value="#{pc_BPSMacro.fileDetailsList.clicked}">
                                             <j4j:idProxy id="proxy_clicked_" />
                                        </h:inputHidden>
                                   </tr>
                              </tbody>
                         </table>
                         <j4j:idProxy id="proxy_form_main_" />
                    </h:form>
               </td>
               </tr>
          </table>
     </hx:scriptCollector>
</f:view>
================== END: FACES JSP FILE: BPSMacro.jsp ========================
2:
=================== Action event in the Page Code: BPSMacro.java ============
public String doIdUpload1Action() {
          System.out.println("PageCode");
          FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
          BPSMacroDetailsDataBean fileDetails = (BPSMacroDetailsDataBean)context.getApplication().createValueBinding("#{fileDetails}").getValue(context);
          BPSMacroListDataBean fileDetailsList = (BPSMacroListDataBean)context.getApplication().createValueBinding("#{fileDetailsList}").getValue(context);
          PortletSession sess = (PortletSession)context.getExternalContext().getSession(false);
          sess.setAttribute("BPS_MACRO_CONTEXT", context, PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
          sess.setAttribute("BPS_MACRO_FILE_DETAILS", fileDetails, PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
          sess.setAttribute("BPS_MACRO_FILE_LIST", fileDetailsList, PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
          HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)context.getExternalContext().getRequest();
          boolean isMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(request);
          request.getContentType();
          return "gotoBPSMacro";
============== END Of Page Code Action event ==============================
3:
============== doView() Portlet method ================================
public void doView(RenderRequest arg0, RenderResponse arg1)
     throws PortletException, IOException {
          String METHOD_NAME = "doView(RenderRequest arg0, RenderResponse arg1)";
          Logger.debug(this.getClass(), METHOD_NAME, "Entering BPSMacroPortlet");
          FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
          PortletSession sess1 = arg0.getPortletSession(true);
          BPSMacroDetailsDataBean fileDetails = new BPSMacroDetailsDataBean();
          BPSMacroListDataBean fileDetailsList = new BPSMacroListDataBean();
          context = (FacesContext)sess1.getAttribute("BPS_MACRO_CONTEXT", PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
          if(context != null){
               fileDetails = (BPSMacroDetailsDataBean)sess1.getAttribute("BPS_MACRO_FILE_DETAILS", PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
               fileDetailsList = (BPSMacroListDataBean)sess1.getAttribute("BPS_MACRO_FILE_LIST", PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
          sess1.removeAttribute("BPS_MACRO_CONTEXT", PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
          sess1.removeAttribute("BPS_MACRO_FILE_DETAILS", PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
          sess1.removeAttribute("BPS_MACRO_FILE_LIST", PortletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
          HttpServletRequest servletRequest = (HttpServletRequest)arg0;
          PortletRequest pReq = (PortletRequest)arg0;
          HttpServletResponse servletResponse= (HttpServletResponse)arg1;
          System.out.println("\n\n Content Type" + servletRequest.getContentType());
          try{
               if(context != null){
          boolean isFileMultipart = ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(servletRequest);
          System.out.println("\nFILE TO BE UPLOADED IS MULTIPART ? " + isFileMultipart);
          if(isFileMultipart){
               FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
               ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
               List items = upload.parseRequest(servletRequest);
               Iterator iterator = items.iterator();
               while (iterator.hasNext()) {
                    FileItem item = (FileItem) iterator.next();
                    InputStream iStream = item.getInputStream();
                    ByteArrayOutputStream ByteArrayOS = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                    int sizeofFile =(int) item.getSize();
                    byte buffer[] = new byte[sizeofFile];
                    int bytesRead = 0;
                    while( (bytesRead = iStream.read(buffer, 0, sizeofFile)) != -1 )
                         ByteArrayOS.write( buffer, 0, bytesRead );
                    String data = new String( ByteArrayOS.toByteArray() );
                    int k = 0;
                    //Check if the file is Refund or Premium
                    int dynamicArraySize = 0;// = st2.countTokens() * 9;
                    dynamicArraySize = st2.countTokens() * 9;
                    if (!item.isFormField() ){
                         File cfile=new File(item.getName());
                         String fileName = "";
                         String separator = "\\";
                         int pos = item.getName().lastIndexOf(separator);
                         int pos2 = item.getName().lastIndexOf(".");
                         if(pos2>-1){
                              fileName =item.getName().substring(pos+1, pos2);
                         }else{
                              fileName =item.getName().substring(pos+1);
                         File fileToBeUploaded=new File("C:\\Sal\\BPS MACRO\\FileTransfer\\Desti", fileName);
                         item.write(fileToBeUploaded);
                         validate.displaySuccessMessage(context);
          }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);
          Logger.debug(this.getClass(), METHOD_NAME, "Leaving BPSMacroPortlet");
          super.doView(arg0, arg1);
==== END: doView method in the portle class. ================================
Thanks.

one more question. Is there a way where I can submit two forms ?
Thats is submit 2nd form only when the first form is submitted.
I tried this it works.
function formSubmit(){
document.form1.submit();
alert();
document.form2.submit();
But If I dont put an alert(basically it disables the parent page) in between, only the second form is submitted.
If I put a delay of say 3 seconds in between then it will throw a SOCKET CLOSED error in the code triggered due to first form submit.
Thus disabling the paresnt page for a few seconds is reolving my problem.
Any ideas ?
Well Basically when the Alert pop's up the parent page "STALLS" and thus the form2 does not submit till I click on OK, Is there a way I can stall the browser/Parent JSP page using JAVA SCRIPT ??
Edited by: hector on Oct 9, 2007 11:09 AM
Edited by: hector on Oct 9, 2007 2:12 PM

Need help on File uploading in JSF

Hi All,
i have to upload some document into IBM DB2 Content Management using JSF Portlet.
Is it possible to upload a document( in my case it is an image) using JSF Portlet into IBM DB2 Content Management? and also i need to keep the reference of the uploaded document in DB2 database.
i need some sample code to do this.
the tools i am using are
RAD 6.0 as IDE
IBM DB2 Content Managener 8.3
IBM DB2 8.2
its an urgent requirement please help me out in this regard

If it's possible in Portlets i don't know, but in JSF is possible with the Tomahawk component to upload files.
See
www.myfaces.org
Try it.

[JSF 2] File upload. Is this feature handled already?

Hello,
I need to allow a user to upload many files through the same form.
This is what I would have done with Struts with this HTML code:
<input type="file" name="file1" size="62" value="" />
<input type="file" name="file2" size="62" value="" />
<input type="file" name="file3" size="62" value="" />and the use of the org.apache.struts.upload.+FormFile+.
However, I see no direct access to this feature through the JSF 2.0.
no special <h:> tag.
Reading old JSF code on the web, Tomahawk or Icefaces were used for this task.
But today, Tomahawk doesn't support JSF 2, and Icefaces has an 2.0 Alpha 2 version that offers many features except File Upload that is still not working (for their update of the month of January: no updates since?).
More than that, I was trapped few days ago by a strange behavior of JSF 2.0.
Setting a "+multipart/form-data+" enctype to my form made JSF 2.0 loop on form validation, without ever submitting it.
I am sure I didn't dreamed when it happened to me. And removing that enctype made the <h:form> returning to its default "+application/x-www-form-urlencoded+" enctype generation, and everything went fine then.
But I know that attempting to upload files form a web page involve setting a "+multipart/form-data+" enctype on it... I feel doomed.
All these questions make me return to you all, again. I wonder if you have succeed in using file upload with JSF 2.0 already.
What mean do you use for that? Any component already exist that is compliant with JSF 2.0?
Thanks for your help,
Grunt.

Are you aware that multi-part forms are not supported by Servlet implementations out of the box? You need to add a filter or manually invoked multi-part processing to support file uploads in any Servlet based solution.You're right. Until JSF 2 takes benefits from Servlet 3.0 who offers a getPart() function, a filter looks mandatory.
Therefore, I tried the most advanced "faces" available for file upload: Primefaces 2.0.2, who provides a filter. However, it's not enough. The whole Primefaces solution for file uploading works chaotically. For me, it handles the multipart request well, but isn't able to join the listener the uploadFile tag defines, at submission time. I won't enter into details because this is not the good forum to discuss of that specific trouble of Primefaces. I did post my problem on Primefaces forum, and learned that this feature isn't working well yet.
Icefaces doesn't offer the file uploading currently. Even its compatilibilty mode to version 1.8 is told (by the release note) not being able to handle file uploading yet.
Richfaces just began its version 4.0.0 and is far from offering file uploading.
If creating a working file upload was something possible yet, I can say for sure that any of these "faces" would had offered a working feature the sooner they could. But rather than that, I am reading ideas about some Mojarra 2 low level bugs that would disallow this feature to be implemented at the moment.
It can't be only a story of a filter to write. That filter would have been written already hundred of times, else. A complete working solution would be shown everywhere.
Currently, to summarize all, whatever a theorical reason is given, or a practical one (RFE missing, no time to write it, not a critical feature, or even unwished feature, depending of everyone thoughts in the previous replies to this post), file uploading is not available for JSF 2.0 by any existing way. No tier API or Faces is able to provide it, as it could be easily proven by the fact... that no samples are currently existing, working.
Myself, but I might be alone believing it, I consider this missing feature like a JSF 2 flaw.
I guess its a mojarra internal bug that disallows developers to provide a solution yet. This is not abnormal: JSF 2.0 has six months only, and can't work perfectly yet.
But the more the correction of that feature will be delayed, and the more the developers will be in trouble, as nothing else is able to work in compatibility with JSF 2.0 (no existing working sample, I need to repeat it). And worst than that, this kind of flaw is one of those that in enterprise, at decision time, can makes JSF 2 discarded for another framework, less smart, but doing everything expected. It would be a shame, then.
So, I think this problem should not be taken disdainfully. It's not a matter of "+You should only put a filter here+", "+It's not our work+", "+Please write our specs+", "+Wait, only wait, it will come for sure one day...+". Its more significant than that. It requires your study. The one of competent people like you are, and having goodwill. Because I understand that this is a problem that has been thrown away since a long time! But it is returning back to us like a boomerang at great speed.
Among the features that JSF 2 offers and the ones that are currently under development, they are many, many of them, that will look secondary if at the end of all, file uploading isn't available.
Regards,
Grunt.

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Many thanx,
vijaycanaan

Mr BalusC,
Yes Iam talking about a custom made upload component. The fileupload tutorials u send are good but my requirement is not meeting them. Among my requirements one is mutilple file uploads in the single view page. This is possible at present with my custom upload componet. Only if the problem gets solved. Any way once again please think on my problem and give your solution on it.
Here is my problem:
The problem is I have to access the components from view page which this kind of requirement possible in jsp by request parsing which results the key value pairs of the form components. This same thing/way I should get in backing bean from JSF view page.
The solution I want may like as follows.
Note this code is incorrect and wrong but for to understand my requirement.
someobject.getComponentIdValue("clientID"); which returns a string value as d:\images\Tutle.jpg
The clientID is upload file component' Id . In the request it may be the key associated with value as file complete path. By this kind of way my upload filter is able to get the orignal file. Ok i need this in my backing bean to get the orignal filename to insert into the database. Please for this give the solution or reply.many thanx,
vijaycanaan.

Upload file component in JSF 1.2

Hi,
I am developing an application with JSF 1.2 . I am using a custom component made with Apache Commons FileUpload 1.2.1 API which purpose is to upload files. This component work only if the form data is encoded with the multipart/form-data encoding instead of the usual application x-www-form-urlencoded encoding. From what I know JSF 1.2 doesn't handle this type of encoding. To overcome this issue, I install a servlet filter that intercepts a file upload and turns uploaded files into request attributes. The problem is that when the form data is encoded with the multipart/form-data encoding no characters are encoded. I have other JSF components in this form and in them I put different international characters which are lost when the form is submit because they are not encoded.
Can somebody help me with this issue ?

I have a filter
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.disk.DiskFileItemFactory;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload;
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private int sizeThreshold = -1;
private String repositoryPath;
public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException {
repositoryPath = config.getInitParameter(
"com.corejsf.UploadFilter.repositoryPath");
try {
String paramValue = config.getInitParameter(
"com.corejsf.UploadFilter.sizeThreshold");
if (paramValue != null)
sizeThreshold = Integer.parseInt(paramValue);
catch (NumberFormatException ex) {
ServletException servletEx = new ServletException();
servletEx.initCause(ex);
throw servletEx;
public void destroy() {
public void doFilter(ServletRequest request,
ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
throws IOException, ServletException {
if (!(request instanceof HttpServletRequest)) {
chain.doFilter(request, response);
return;
HttpServletRequest httpRequest = (HttpServletRequest) request;
boolean isMultipartContent
= ServletFileUpload.isMultipartContent(httpRequest);
if (!isMultipartContent) {
chain.doFilter(request, response);
return;
DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
if (sizeThreshold >= 0)
factory.setSizeThreshold(sizeThreshold);
if (repositoryPath != null)
factory.setRepository(new File(repositoryPath));
ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
try {
List<FileItem> items = (List<FileItem>) upload.parseRequest(httpRequest);
final Map<String, String[]> map = new HashMap<String, String[]>();
for (FileItem item : items) {
String str = item.getString();
if (item.isFormField())
map.put(item.getFieldName(), new String[] { str });
else
httpRequest.setAttribute(item.getFieldName(), item);
chain.doFilter(new
HttpServletRequestWrapper(httpRequest) {
public Map<String, String[]> getParameterMap() {
return map;
// busywork follows ... should have been part of the wrapper
public String[] getParameterValues(String name) {
Map<String, String[]> map = getParameterMap();
return (String[]) map.get(name);
public String getParameter(String name) {
String[] params = getParameterValues(name);
if (params == null) return null;
return params[0];
public Enumeration<String> getParameterNames() {
Map<String, String[]> map = getParameterMap();
return Collections.enumeration(map.keySet());
}, response);
} catch (FileUploadException ex) {
ServletException servletEx = new ServletException();
servletEx.initCause(ex);
throw servletEx;
a render
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import javax.el.ValueExpression;
import javax.faces.FacesException;
import javax.faces.component.EditableValueHolder;
import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;
import javax.faces.context.ExternalContext;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import javax.faces.context.ResponseWriter;
import javax.faces.render.Renderer;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
public class UploadRenderer extends Renderer {
public void encodeBegin(FacesContext context, UIComponent component)
throws IOException {
if (!component.isRendered()) return;
ResponseWriter writer = context.getResponseWriter();
String clientId = component.getClientId(context);
writer.startElement("input", component);
writer.writeAttribute("type", "file", "type");
writer.writeAttribute("name", clientId, "clientId");
writer.endElement("input");
writer.flush();
public void decode(FacesContext context, UIComponent component) {
ExternalContext external = context.getExternalContext();
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) external.getRequest();
String clientId = component.getClientId(context);
FileItem item = (FileItem) request.getAttribute(clientId);
Object newValue;
ValueExpression valueExpr = component.getValueExpression("value");
if (valueExpr != null) {
Class valueType = valueExpr.getType(context.getELContext());
if (valueType == byte[].class) {
newValue = item.get();
else if (valueType == InputStream.class) {
try {
newValue = item.getInputStream();
} catch (IOException ex) {
throw new FacesException(ex);
else {
String encoding = request.getCharacterEncoding();
if (encoding != null)
try {
newValue = item.getString(encoding);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
newValue = item.getString();
else
newValue = item.getString();
((EditableValueHolder) component).setSubmittedValue(newValue);
((EditableValueHolder) component).setValid(true);
Object target = component.getAttributes().get("target");
if (target != null) {
File file;
if (target instanceof File)
file = (File) target;
else {
ServletContext servletContext
= (ServletContext) external.getContext();
String realPath = servletContext.getRealPath(target.toString());
file = new File(realPath);
try { // ugh--write is declared with "throws Exception"
item.write(file);
} catch (Exception ex) {
throw new FacesException(ex);
and a simple tag handler it is nothing special.
This code is taken from an example in the book Core JavaServer Faces Second Edition 2007

File upload program by jsf

I am doing one file upload program using
<af:inputFile label="File to Upload" columns="90"
value="#{FileProcessor.uploadedFile}"/>
component..
in Jdeveloper 11g i am getting the correct result,
but when i'm tryin to run it in Jdeveloper jdevstudio10131 it is giving this error.
java.io.EOFException: Per-request disk space limits exceeded. at oracle.adfinternal.view.faces.webapp.UploadedFileImpl.loadFile(UploadedFileImpl.java:187) at
i want this file upload application to run in ecplise..but there it is not working..do i need so some to import some jar files??
tomat 5.0 i'm using there..
Or is there any otherway to upload file using jsf component which should work in eclipse-tomcat enviornment also..
please help
thanks

Mr BalusC,
Yes Iam talking about a custom made upload component. The fileupload tutorials u send are good but my requirement is not meeting them. Among my requirements one is mutilple file uploads in the single view page. This is possible at present with my custom upload componet. Only if the problem gets solved. Any way once again please think on my problem and give your solution on it.
Here is my problem:
The problem is I have to access the components from view page which this kind of requirement possible in jsp by request parsing which results the key value pairs of the form components. This same thing/way I should get in backing bean from JSF view page.
The solution I want may like as follows.
Note this code is incorrect and wrong but for to understand my requirement.
someobject.getComponentIdValue("clientID"); which returns a string value as d:\images\Tutle.jpg
The clientID is upload file component' Id . In the request it may be the key associated with value as file complete path. By this kind of way my upload filter is able to get the orignal file. Ok i need this in my backing bean to get the orignal filename to insert into the database. Please for this give the solution or reply.many thanx,
vijaycanaan.

JSF RI 1.0 File Uploads mit Multipart Filter

Hi there,
I already posted my problem - I need support for a basic file upload. My requirement is, that I want to access teh file data in a Managed Bean method and then decice what to to with it.
I decided to use Jason Hunters Multipart Filter, that comes with the oreilly servlet jar file. My problem with the following code is, that the upload() method is never called. I think the filter is not invoked, but I don't know why. Could anyone please see, if I am on the right track?
First, here is my web.xml with the filter:
     
     
<filter>
<filter-name>multipartFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>com.oreilly.servlet.MultipartFilter</filter-class>

</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>multipartFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
--> this code comes at the end of my web.xml, so after the jsf cotnroller servlet is configured, etc.
in my jsp page, I got this form:
<h:form enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td width="25%" align="right">Bild</td>
<td width="75%"><input type="file" name="file"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><h:commandButton id="upload" action="#{uploadBean.upload}" value="#{messages.uploadFile}"/>
     </td>
</tr>
</table>
</h:form>
--> the file upload is done with a normal html tag, because there is no jsf tag for it.
then, here us may upload() method in the managed bean:
(the upload method is never called... why???? )
     public String upload()
          log.debug("entering upload()...");
          // Files can be read if the request class is MultipartWrapper
          // Init params to MultipartWrapper control the upload handling
          HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
          if (request instanceof MultipartWrapper)
               log.debug("The MultiPart Filter recognized the mulitpart request.");
                    // Cast the request to a MultipartWrapper
                    MultipartWrapper multi = (MultipartWrapper) request;
                    // Show which files we received
                    Enumeration files = multi.getFileNames();
                    while (files.hasMoreElements())
                         String name = (String) files.nextElement();
                         String filename = multi.getFilesystemName(name);
                         String type = multi.getContentType(name);
                         File f = multi.getFile(name);
                         log.debug("name: " + name);
                         log.debug("filename: " + filename);
                         log.debug("type: " + type);
                         if (f != null)
                              log.debug("length: " + f.length());
          return "upload";
THANX! it would be great to get this sample running!

Hello!
I have a photo which I store in MSSQL db as a BLOB so it looks like:
| |
| Photo |
| |
-----------------------+
| c:\my.jpg | choose |
-----------------------+
where
<f:verbatim>
<input name="photo" id="photo" type="file">
</f:verbatim>
is rendered into standard choose file dialog (unfortunately I can't change it).
So when user click "choose" it's able to select local file (a picture).
Then in textbox (input) appear the path (of course it can write it directly).
A click to the picture
a) launch javascript:
onclick="document.getElementById('photo').name='#{DatosPersonalesForm.foto}';"
that change image value (file name) so I could know which file to look for later:
<h:graphicImage value="#{DatosPersonalesForm.foto}" ...
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In DatosPersonalesForm I have foto property (with get/set) which store foto
public String getFoto()
public void setFoto()
The problem is how to return foto: I put an image in a session and get it from another servlet (registred in web.xml) which intercepts /images/* and return ones from the session.
I tried use Base64 encoding to embedd images directly, but it works only in Mozilla (even it's html 4.01).
here is my full DatosPersonalesForm.class (with some additional crap):
public class DatosPersonalesForm implements Observer, Serializable
private int idCentro = 1;
private CurrentClient client;
private String foto;
//private String data;
private Abonado abonado;
private Persona persona;
private DireccionTableModel direcciones;
public DatosPersonalesForm()
abonado = new Abonado();
persona = new Persona();
direcciones = new DireccionTableModel();
public void setClient(CurrentClient client)
this.client = client;
client.addObserver(this);
public void setIdCentro(int idCentro)
this.idCentro = idCentro;
direcciones.setIdCentro(idCentro);
public void setIdAbonado(int idAbonado)
if (idAbonado > 0)
try
abonado = AbonadoDAO.load(idAbonado, idCentro);
persona = PersonaDAO.load(idAbonado, idCentro);
catch (Exception ex)
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().log(ex.toString());
else
abonado = new Abonado();
persona = new Persona();
direcciones.setIdPersona(idAbonado);
public Abonado getAbonado() { return abonado; }
public void setAbonado(Abonado abonado) { this.abonado = abonado; }
public Persona getPersona() { return persona;}
public void setPersona(Persona persona) { this.persona = persona; }
public DireccionTableModel getDirecciones() { return direcciones; }
public void setDirecciones(DireccionTableModel direcciones) { this.direcciones = direcciones; }
//public String getData() { return data; }
public String getFoto()
if (persona != null)
try
Imagenes imagenes = ImagenesDAO.load(persona.getIdImagen(), idCentro);
if (imagenes != null)
foto = "/images/" + putImage(imagenes.getImagen());
//data = Base64Encoder.encode(imagenes.getImagen());
catch (Exception ex)
foto = "/img/photo_unavailable.jpg";
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().log(ex.toString());
return foto;
public void setFoto(String foto) { this.foto = foto; }
public void uploadPhoto(ActionEvent e)
// for which person to upload???
if (persona != null)
HttpServletRequest r = (HttpServletRequest)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
if (r instanceof ServletRequestWrapper)
ServletRequest req = ((ServletRequestWrapper)r).getRequest();
if (req instanceof MultipartRequestWrapper)
MultipartRequestWrapper request = (MultipartRequestWrapper)req;
byte[] photo = (byte[])request.getFiles().get(foto);
if (photo != null)
try
BufferedImage original = ImageIO.read(new ByteArrayInputStream(photo));
if (original == null) // not an image?
return;
BufferedImage scaled = new BufferedImage(128, 160, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics g = (Graphics2D)scaled.getGraphics();
g.drawImage(original,0,0,128,160,null);
g.dispose();
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(4096);
ImageIO.write(scaled, "jpg", out);
photo = out.toByteArray();
catch (IOException ex)
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().log(ex.toString());
return;
Imagenes imagenes = new Imagenes();
imagenes.setIdCentro(idCentro);
imagenes.setIdImagenes(persona.getIdImagen());
imagenes.setImagen(photo);
try
ImagenesDAO.save(imagenes);
catch (Exception ex)
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().log(ex.toString());
return;
putImage(imagenes.getImagen());
public String clear()
if (client != null)
client.setIdAbonado(0);
// must be mapped in faces-config.xml
return "clear";
public void save(ActionEvent e)
try
if (persona.getIdPersona() == 0)
abonado.setIdCentro(idCentro);
persona.setIdCentro(idCentro);
Connection con = DatasourceFactory.getConnection();
try
con.setAutoCommit(false);
PersonaDAO.create(con, persona);
abonado.setIdAbonado(persona.getIdPersona()); // idPersona == idAbonado is autoGenerated by database
AbonadoDAO.create(con, abonado);
con.commit();
catch(SQLException ex)
con.rollback();
persona.setIdPersona(0);
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().log(ex.toString());
finally { con.close(); }
// notify all about client change
if (client != null)
client.setIdAbonado(persona.getIdPersona());
else
Connection con = DatasourceFactory.getConnection();
try
con.setAutoCommit(false);
PersonaDAO.save(con, persona);
AbonadoDAO.save(con, abonado);
con.commit();
catch(SQLException ex)
con.rollback();
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().log(ex.toString());
finally { con.close(); }
catch (Exception ex)
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().log(ex.toString());
direcciones.save(e);
private String putImage(byte[] image)
String name;
HttpSession ses = (HttpSession)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getSession(false);
if (ses != null)
name = "photo_" + String.valueOf(idCentro) + "_" + String.valueOf(persona.getIdPersona()) + ".jpg";
HashMap map = (HashMap)ses.getAttribute("ImageMap");
if (map == null)
map = new HashMap();
ses.setAttribute("ImageMap", map);
map.put(name, image);
else
name = null;
return name;
public void update(Observable o, Object arg)
if (o instanceof CurrentClient)
CurrentClient bean = (CurrentClient)o;
setIdAbonado(bean.getIdAbonado());
Cheers,
D.
P.S. I live in Spain so in Spanish it's foto :-) Sometimes I got crazy coz neither Spanish nor English are my native languages...
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jstl-1.1.0-D13.jar
log4j-1.2.9.jar
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