Re: [FileUpload] Getting wrong filename from FileItem

[Frank W. Zammetti]

It seems to me a method to get JUST the filename makes a lot of sense... 
what has been the reason for not adding it IN ADDITION to what's there 
now?  Unfortunately it would make more sense if getName() returned just 
the name while there was another method, maybe getFullName() that 
returned what getName() returns now, but that breaks existing code 
potentially, so I can certainly see why that hasn't been done, but 
adding something like getJustTheName() or something (obviously there 
must be a better choice!) makes sense to me.

Frank
Dakota Jack wrote:
That is an excellent point, Robert.  I often forget how horrible it
must be to be immeshed in those programming worlds where there is no
recourse.  Too often we shy away, I think, at changing code, even with
the Java distribution itself, license issues notwithstanding.
On 5/4/05, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 10:26 -0700, Dakota Jack wrote:
Some people think this is a bug and some people think that this is a
feature.
<snip>
That is not a problem, however.  I just went in and changed the
commons upload code adding .getName() to the file at this stage.  The
problem you are seeing is in Internet Explorer, right?  Firefox and
Netscape return the file name and Internet Explorer returns the full
path.  Anyway, you either have to solve the problem in the commons
upload code itself, where it is easy to solve, or to go through some
wasted mechanisms after the fact.  Everyone has to solve this problem
somewhere, so I definitely come down on the side of "bug" versus
"feature".
the great thing about open source is that you are free to do exactly
this :)
- robert
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