to obtain image path

i have made a web application in which you can upload a file and i have used File image = new File(image); here String image = request.getParameter("file"); and file is the name of FILESELECT button or BROWSE button . and i am expecting to obtain the complete path of the image from FILE that i have browsed but instead i m gettng just the name of the image.

this is my index.jsp page

<p>&lt;%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"></p>

<p><html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
       &lt;FORM ACTION="upload" METHOD=POST>
            <br><br><br>
            <center><table border="2" >
                <tr>
                    <center>
                        <td colspan="2"><p align="center">
                                &lt;B>UPLOAD THE FILE</B>
                        </td>
                    </center>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <b>Choose the file To Upload:</b>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        &lt;INPUT NAME="file" TYPE="file" value="">
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td colspan="2">
                        <p align="right">&lt;INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Send File" ></p>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
            </center>
        </FORM>
    </body>
</html></p>

<p>and this is my servlet:upload.java
package controller;</p>

<p>import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;</p>

<p>public class upload extends HttpServlet {</p>

@Override
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException
{
    PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
    String imageUrl = request.getParameter("file");
    Connection connection = null;
    String connectionURL = "jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/skill_tracker";
    ResultSet rs = null;
    PreparedStatement psmnt = null;


    // declare FileInputStream object to store binary stream of given image.

        try
        {                
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
            connection = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionURL, "root", "root");

            // create a file object for image by specifying full path of image as parameter.
            File image = new File(imageUrl);
            out.println(image);
            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(image);
            psmnt = connection.prepareStatement("insert into pic values(?,?)");
            psmnt.setInt(1,'1');
            psmnt.setBinaryStream (2, (InputStream)fis, (int)(image.length()));
            /* executeUpdate() method execute specified sql query. Here this query
             insert data and image from specified address. */
            int s = psmnt.executeUpdate();
            if(s&gt;0) {
              out.println("Uploaded successfully !");
             }
            else {
           out.println("unsucessfull to upload image.");
              }
      }
     catch (Exception ex)
     {
        out.println("Found some error : "+ex);
     }
}

<p>}</p>

View Answers

October 29, 2010 at 11:15 AM

Hi Friend,

Try the following code: 1)page.jsp:

<%@ page language="java" %>
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Display file upload form to the user</TITLE></HEAD> 
<BODY> <FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="../UploadServlet" METHOD=POST>
<br><br><br>
<center>
<table border="0" bgcolor=#ccFDDEE>
<tr><center><td colspan="2" align="center"><B>UPLOAD THE FILE</B><center></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Choose the file To Upload:</b></td><td><INPUT NAME="file" TYPE="file"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" align="center">&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" value="Send File"> </td></tr>
<table>
</center> 
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

2)UploadServlet.java:

import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

public class UploadServlet extends HttpServlet {
   public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,  HttpServletResponse response)throws IOException, ServletException{
   PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
   String contentType = request.getContentType();
if ((contentType != null) && (contentType.indexOf("multipart/form-data") >= 0)) {
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(request.getInputStream());
int formDataLength = request.getContentLength();
byte dataBytes[] = new byte[formDataLength];
int byteRead = 0;
int totalBytesRead = 0;
while (totalBytesRead < formDataLength) {
byteRead = in.read(dataBytes, totalBytesRead,formDataLength);
totalBytesRead += byteRead;
}
String file = new String(dataBytes);
String saveFile = file.substring(file.indexOf("filename=\"") + 10);
saveFile = saveFile.substring(0, saveFile.indexOf("\n"));
saveFile = saveFile.substring(saveFile.lastIndexOf("\\") + 1,saveFile.indexOf("\""));
int lastIndex = contentType.lastIndexOf("=");
String boundary = contentType.substring(lastIndex + 1,contentType.length());
int pos;
pos = file.indexOf("filename=\"");
pos = file.indexOf("\n", pos) + 1;
pos = file.indexOf("\n", pos) + 1;
pos = file.indexOf("\n", pos) + 1;
int boundaryLocation = file.indexOf(boundary, pos) - 4;
int startPos = ((file.substring(0, pos)).getBytes()).length;
int endPos = ((file.substring(0, boundaryLocation)).getBytes()).length;
saveFile="C:/UploadedFiles/"+saveFile;
File ff = new File(saveFile);
FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream(ff);
fileOut.write(dataBytes, startPos, (endPos - startPos));
fileOut.flush();
fileOut.close();
Connection connection = null;
String connectionURL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test";
ResultSet rs = null;
PreparedStatement psmnt = null;
FileInputStream fis;
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionURL, "root", "root");
File f = new File(saveFile);
psmnt = connection.prepareStatement("insert into file(file_data) values(?)");
fis = new FileInputStream(f);
psmnt.setBinaryStream(1, (InputStream)fis, (int)(f.length()));
int s = psmnt.executeUpdate();
if(s>0) {
out.println("Uploaded successfully !");
}
else{
out.println("unsucessfull to upload file.");
}
}
catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
}
   }
}

Thanks

October 29, 2010 at 6:18 PM

dat is very difficulto understand wat i have done is very simple...my code works on some system perfectly but on my system it has dis problm..if u can plz tell me waT can i do to get the complete path??

September 8, 2012 at 11:07 AM

Is it possible to do the same jsp function with php??? just curious...:-)