FileUpload Help

Question

I have installed the jakarta FileUpload.
I have spent a couple of days trying to get the sample file upload to work. Did web search and forum searches. However could not find any solutions to my error.
My FileUpload.java
package com.upload;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
public class FileUpload {
    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
        DiskFileUpload fu = new DiskFileUpload();
        // maximum size before a FileUploadException will be thrown
        fu.setSizeMax(1000000);
        // maximum size that will be stored in memory
        fu.setSizeThreshold(4096);
        // the location for saving data that is larger than getSizeThreshold()
        fu.setRepositoryPath("/temp");
        List fileItems = fu.parseRequest(req);
        // assume we know there are two files. The first file is a small
        // text file, the second is unknown and is written to a file on
        // the server
        Iterator i = fileItems.iterator();
        String comment = ((FileItem)i.next()).getString();
        FileItem fi = (FileItem)i.next();
        // filename on the client
        String fileName = fi.getName();
        // save comment and filename to database
        // write the file
     fi.write("/unzipped/" + fileName);
}My error:
C:\Tomcat 5.0\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes\com\upload\FileUpload.java:44: write(java.io.File) in org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem cannot be applied to (java.lang.String)
fi.write("/unzipped/" + fileName);
^
1 error
Tool completed with exit code 1
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi,
This is taken from the apache website
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/fileupload/apidocs/index.html
Normal usage example:
    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
        DiskFileUpload fu = new DiskFileUpload();
        // maximum size before a FileUploadException will be thrown
        fu.setSizeMax(1000000);
        // maximum size that will be stored in memory
        fu.setSizeThreshold(4096);
        // the location for saving data that is larger than getSizeThreshold()
        fu.setRepositoryPath("/tmp");
        List fileItems = fu.parseRequest(req);
        // assume we know there are two files. The first file is a small
        // text file, the second is unknown and is written to a file on
        // the server
        Iterator i = fileItems.iterator();
        String comment = ((FileItem)i.next()).getString();
        FileItem fi = (FileItem)i.next();
        // filename on the client
        String fileName = fi.getName();
        // save comment and filename to database
        // write the file
        fi.write(new File("/www/uploads/", fileName)); // your problem lies here - the write method needs a java.io.File parameter not a java.lang.String parameter as you have specified.
    }Regards,
bazooka.