how to specify location of file to be uploaded?

[anthrax]

String htmlBody; // ...
byte[] attachmentData; // ...

Multipart mp = new MimeMultipart();

MimeBodyPart htmlPart = new MimeBodyPart();
htmlPart.setContent(htmlBody, "text/html");
mp.addBodyPart(htmlPart);

MimeBodyPart attachment = new MimeBodyPart();
attachment.setFileName("manual.pdf");
attachment.setContent(attachmentData, "application/pdf");
mp.addBodyPart(attachment);

message.setContent(mp);



lets say manual.pdf is in C:/files folder

[Basit56]

Hi,
May be this will help you.

Sending Attachments

Sending attachments is quite like forwarding messages. You build up the parts to make the complete message. After the first part, your message text, you add other parts where the DataHandler for each is your attachment, instead of the shared handler in the case of a forwarded message. If you are reading the attachment from a file, your attachment data source is a FileataSource. Reading from a URL, it is a URLDataSource. Once you have your DataSource, just pass it on to the DataHandler constructor, before finally attaching it to the BodyPart with setDataHandler(). Assuming you want to retain the original filename for the attachment, the last thing to do is to set the filename associated with the attachment with the setFileName() method of BodyPart. All this is shown here:

// Define message
Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));
message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, 
  new InternetAddress(to));
message.setSubject("Hello JavaMail Attachment");

// Create the message part 
BodyPart messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();

// Fill the message
messageBodyPart.setText("Pardon Ideas");

Multipart multipart = new MimeMultipart();
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);

// Part two is attachment
messageBodyPart = new MimeBodyPart();
DataSource source = new FileDataSource(filename);
messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(new DataHandler(source));
messageBodyPart.setFileName(filename);
multipart.addBodyPart(messageBodyPart);

// Put parts in message
message.setContent(multipart);

// Send the message
Transport.send(message);

When including attachments with your messages, if your program is a servlet, your users must upload the attachment besides tell you where to send the message. Uploading each file can be handled with a form encoding type of multipart/form-data.

<FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" 
    method=post action="/myservlet"> 
  <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="thefile">
  <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Upload">
</FORM>

Thanks

[FON]

It's not clear what you want to do.

You asked about file upload, and you posted code for sending e-mail with attach...or...?

So Basit56 gave you good place to start with: upload form.
This way user can easily pick any file from his file-system and
send it to your server. Your job is here to create a server component
that will receive file and store it on servers file system.

This is not standard thing in servlet.api so you have to use
additional libraries for this.

You can choose Apache Jakarta Commons Upload:
FileUpload - Using FileUpload

Read that page and you will find exactly how to
specify location of file.

Pay attention on file system permissions and unique file names on server.

good luck ;)

[Basit56]

Sorry i misunderstood the question.

[r035198x]

Sorry i misunderstood the question.

The OP hasn't given enough information so it's not your fault.
You could still have guessed correctly.

[anthrax]

tnx a lot for the answers.. it also has helped me alot..

i have another question

can i include files with include tag other than text/html?

<%@ include file="/files/Struts2.pdf" %> i did this but i get this error
same with .doc type.. is there other method to display .pdf or .doc to html?

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /files/Struts2.pdf(8,327) #{..} is not allowed in template text
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jsp Error(DefaultErrorHandler.java:40)
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[r035198x]

You should generally start a new thread for a new question.
You didn't say whether you were uploading files to a server or emailing attachments.
You should run a file servlet for your current problem but I'll not go into details because you are not willing to give enough information to people who are trying to help you for free.

[anthrax]

i'm actually uploading file to a server and i want it be placed to a specific folder and change its filename to my liking.. when i found the code which i 1st posted i didn't realize it was meant for attaching file to email :D.. but Basit56 was able to explain it well and i was able to understand the process for attaching file to email.. now i'm back with uploading file from the server with this html form
<FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"
method=post action="/myservlet">
<INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="thefile">
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Upload">
</FORM>

for example i want the uploaded file be placed in C:/file and its filename be saved as a.pdf .. also where is this "fileSystemPath" located?

[r035198x]

So read FON's reply again.

[anthrax]

tnx.. problem solved :D

[FON]

antrax would you be so kind to share that solution with rest
of people on this forum

thank you very much in advance :)

[anthrax]

struts sample showcase contains fileupload method.. i look into the code and the destination directory was set in one of the xml file :) i just have to reuse it...