File Upload and other html controls

Question

My form has <input type="file"> and other html controls. I am able to upload the file to the server. However when I tried to request.getParameter("phone"); It will output phone = null.

When I remove enctype="multipart/form-data", I am able to get phone. However, upload file does not work.

How can I get phone parameter and upload file work together?

Help will be appreciate and thanks in advance! :)

Below are my codes.

In jsp

<FORM NAME="InputForm" ACTION="servletname" METHOD="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<P><input type="text" name="phone">
<P><input type="file" name="filename">
<P><input type="submit" value="Upload File">
</FORM>

In SERVLET

String phone = request.getParameter("phone");

Please check the answer for this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15105322/multipart-form-data-sending-additional-data which should be similar to your question. — avenet, Jan 19 '14 at 13:40

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '14 at 19:59

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The servlet container is not able to translate form parameters encoded with multipart/form-data. You need to manually decode them or use a third-party library (Apache Commons FileUpload) to extract the form parameters.

answered Jan 19 '14 at 19:59

Glenn Lane

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FileItem item = (FileItem) iter.next(); if (item.isFormField()) { String name = item.getFieldName();//text1 String value = item.getString(); } – newbieinjavaversion2 Jan 21 '14 at 00:56
From the above codes, I found out from how retrieve from text 1. But what if I have more than 1 inputs ? How to I know that output is for this particular input? – newbieinjavaversion2 Jan 21 '14 at 00:57
I recommend searching or asking "How do I get text fields using Apache Commons FileUpload" – Glenn Lane Jan 21 '14 at 17:10

File Upload and other html controls

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