PRAGMATIC PROGRAMMERS: Servlet File Upload

Hi,

html
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    <form action="UploadForm" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST">
            <input type="file" name="file1"><br>
            <input type="Submit" value="Upload File"><br>
        </form>
web.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>UploadForm</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>UploadFormServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>UploadForm</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/UploadForm</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

servlet
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItemFactory;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.disk.DiskFileItemFactory;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload;

public class UploadFormServlet extends HttpServlet {

    private static final String TMP_DIR_PATH = "c:\\tmp";
    private File tmpDir;
    private static final String DESTINATION_DIR_PATH = "/files";
    private File destinationDir;

    public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
        super.init(config);
        tmpDir = new File(TMP_DIR_PATH);
        if (!tmpDir.isDirectory()) {
            throw new ServletException(TMP_DIR_PATH + " is not a directory");
        }
        String realPath = getServletContext().getRealPath(DESTINATION_DIR_PATH);
        destinationDir = new File(realPath);
        if (!destinationDir.isDirectory()) {
            throw new ServletException(DESTINATION_DIR_PATH + " is not a directory");
        }

    }

    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        response.setContentType("text/plain");
        out.println("<h1>Servlet File Upload Example using Commons File Upload</h1>");
        out.println();

        DiskFileItemFactory fileItemFactory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
        /*
         *Set the size threshold, above which content will be stored on disk.
         */
        fileItemFactory.setSizeThreshold(1 * 1024 * 1024); //1 MB
        /*
         * Set the temporary directory to store the uploaded files of size above threshold.
         */
        fileItemFactory.setRepository(tmpDir);

        ServletFileUpload uploadHandler = new ServletFileUpload(fileItemFactory);
        try {
            /*
             * Parse the request
             */
            List items = uploadHandler.parseRequest(request);
            Iterator itr = items.iterator();
            while (itr.hasNext()) {
                FileItem item = (FileItem) itr.next();
                /*
                 * Handle Form Fields.
                 */
                if (item.isFormField()) {
                    out.println("File Name = " + item.getFieldName() + ", Value = " + item.getString());
                } else {
                    //Handle Uploaded files.
                    out.println("Field Name = " + item.getFieldName()
                            + ", File Name = " + item.getName()
                            + ", Content type = " + item.getContentType()
                            + ", File Size = " + item.getSize());
                    /*
                     * Write file to the ultimate location.
                     */
                    File file = new File(destinationDir, item.getName());
                    item.write(file);
                }
                out.close();
            }
        } catch (FileUploadException ex) {
            log("Error encountered while parsing the request", ex);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            log("Error encountered while uploading file", ex);
        }

    }
}

Jars Needed