Spring file upload - getting Expected MultipartHttpServletRequest: is a MultipartResolver configured? error

Question

I'm trying to incorporate multiple file upload functionality in my Angular web application using angular-file-upload. Currently, the front end functionality works, but each upload attempt throws a

java.lang.IllegalStateException,java.io.IOException]: 
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Expected MultipartHttpServletRequest: 
        is a MultipartResolver configured?

exception.

The Upload Controller is defined as

@Controller
@PropertySource("classpath:application.properties")
public class FileUploadController {

    @Resource
    private Environment env;

    @RequestMapping(value = "/fileupload", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    @ResponseBody
    public List<String> fileUpload(@RequestParam("file") MultipartFile[] uploadFiles) throws IllegalStateException, IOException {
        //file processing logic
    }
 }

In my AppConfig.java class, I declare the bean

@Bean
public CommonsMultipartResolver commonsMultipartResolver(){
    CommonsMultipartResolver commonsMultipartResolver = new CommonsMultipartResolver();
    commonsMultipartResolver.setDefaultEncoding("utf-8");
    commonsMultipartResolver.setMaxUploadSize(50000000);
    return commonsMultipartResolver;
}

and start the web application with

@Override
public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {

    AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext ctx = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
    ctx.register(AppConfig.class);
    servletContext.addListener(new ContextLoaderListener(ctx));

    ctx.setServletContext(servletContext);
    ctx.refresh();

    Dynamic servlet = servletContext.addServlet(SERVLET_NAME, new DispatcherServlet(ctx));
    servlet.addMapping("/");
    servlet.setLoadOnStartup(1);
    //servlet.setMultipartConfig(ctx.getBean(MultipartConfigElement.class));
}

I do not think it is due to the lack of a <form> element in my Angular view, because I can see that Content-Tyle is multipart/form-data and that the Request Payload is set appropriately.

Remote Address:192.168.33.10:80
Request URL:http://dev.jason.com/rest/fileupload
Request Method:POST
Status Code:500 Internal Server Error
Request Headers
  Accept:*/*
  Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate
  Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
  Cache-Control:no-cache
  Connection:keep-alive
  Content-Length:415235
  Content-Type:multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryBHlsldPQysTVpvwZ
  Host:dev.jason.com
  Origin:http://dev.jason.com
  Pragma:no-cache
  Referer:http://dev.jason.com/
  User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.122 Safari/537.36
Request Payload
   ------WebKitFormBoundaryBHlsldPQysTVpvwZ
   Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="IMG_5072.jpg"
   Content-Type: image/jpeg

   ------WebKitFormBoundaryBHlsldPQysTVpvwZ--

Note that this issue still occurs when including

@Bean
public MultipartConfigElement multipartConfigElement(){
    MultipartConfigFactory multipartConfigFactory = new MultipartConfigFactory();
    multipartConfigFactory.setMaxFileSize("10MB");
    multipartConfigFactory.setMaxRequestSize("50MB");
    return multipartConfigFactory.createMultipartConfig();
}

in AppConfig.java and uncommenting the command

servlet.setMultipartConfig(ctx.getBean(MultipartConfigElement.class));

in my servlet initializer class.

Any help is appreciated!

For one, don't register the `ctx` context with both the `ContextLoaderListener` and the `DispatcherServlet`. — Sotirios Delimanolis, Nov 20 '14 at 21:44
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11708967/what-is-the-difference-between-applicationcontext-and-webapplicationcontext-in-s — Sotirios Delimanolis, Nov 20 '14 at 21:50
It doesn't. It's just advice. It may affect you negatively in other cases. — Sotirios Delimanolis, Nov 20 '14 at 21:54
OK, appreciate it. I basically followed another application's configuration, and that one used the same `ctx` variable for both `ContextLoaderListener` and `DispatcherServlet`. So I wonder how common this kind of configuration is. — Jason, Nov 20 '14 at 21:56
The `DispatcherServlet` some times goes to the `WebApplicationContext` loaded by the `ContextLoaderListener` for beans. If you're using the same context for both, you might end up with duplicate registrations. Are you sure they didn't re-initialize/assign the variable? — Sotirios Delimanolis, Nov 20 '14 at 21:57

Sotirios Delimanolis · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-08T14:40:16.647

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Spring's MVC stack requires that the MultipartResolver bean be called multipartResolver. Change your @Bean method to

@Bean
public CommonsMultipartResolver multipartResolver(){

or

@Bean(name = "multipartResolver")
public CommonsMultipartResolver commonsMultipartResolver(){

edited Jun 08 '16 at 14:40

answered Nov 20 '14 at 21:54

Sotirios Delimanolis

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Such a simple solution to a frustrating problem. Thanks! – Jason Nov 20 '14 at 22:01
@Jason What bugs me is that, other than the source code, there is no documentation specifying this. The examples provided in the docs simply use `multipartResolver` but don't make it clear (at least not what I've read) that the name has to be `multipartResolver`. – Sotirios Delimanolis Nov 20 '14 at 22:02
Agreed, though I should have caught this. Almost all of the examples I looked at for help had XML configuration with ` ... ` – Jason Nov 20 '14 at 22:07
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+1 This is an unnecessary problem to be facing. I have no idea why the method name would have to be named exactly multipartResolver, and also no idea why this isn't all over the documentation. – John Smith Feb 07 '15 at 01:04

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 18 '17 at 09:13

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Just add this to servler-context.xml

<bean id="multipartResolver" class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver">
 <property name="maxUploadSize" value="268435456"/>
</bean>

Nothing else needed.

answered Jul 18 '17 at 09:13

Patrice

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Easiest solution! Thanks. – Ali Hashemi Jan 15 '18 at 11:49

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 03 '17 at 08:07

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You have to add in webmvc-context.xml this:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver" id="multipartResolver"/>

answered Aug 03 '17 at 08:07

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