Text field and fileupload in one form

Question

I want to create a form with two textfields and one fileupload. How can I handle the textfields in my Servlet? It doesn't work with request.getParameter("user").

Here is my form:

<form action="FileUpload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <p><input type="text" name="user" id="user"/></p>
    <p><input type="password" name="password" id="password"/></p>
    <p><input type="file" name="file" size="50"/>
    <p><input type="submit" value="Senden"/></p>
</form>

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

While your form is declared as multipart/form-data then you need to check if the stream contains form field type or a multipart type.

Answer 2

I think Unable to read form field in servlet should help answer your question. In essence you need to create a new MultipartRequest object using the request as an argument and then call getParameter on that object. Like this:

String dir = directoryToSaveFileTo;
MultipartRequest r =new MultipartRequest(request, dir);
String User = r.getgetParameter("user");