U can use this method to do the parsing for u:
protected Hashtable parseMulti(String boundary, ServletInputStream in)
throws IOException {
int buffSize = 1024*8; // 8K
Hashtable hash = new Hashtable();
int result;
String line;
String lowerline;
String boundaryStr = "--"+boundary;
ByteArrayOutputStream content;
String filename;
String contentType;
String name;
String value;
byte[] b = new byte[buffSize];
result = in.readLine(b,0,b.length);
// failure.
if (result == -1)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("InputStream truncated");
line = new String(b,0,0,result);
// failure.
if (!line.startsWith(boundaryStr))
throw new IllegalArgumentException("MIME boundary missing: "+line);
while (true) {
// Some initialization
filename = null;
contentType = null;
content = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
name = null;
// get next line (should be content disposition)
result = in.readLine(b,0,b.length);
if (result == -1) return hash;
line = new String(b,0,0,result-2);
lowerline = line.toLowerCase();
if (!lowerline.startsWith("content-disposition"))
// don't know what to do, so we'll keep looking...
continue;
// determine what the disposition is
int ind = lowerline.indexOf("content-disposition: ");
int ind2 = lowerline.indexOf(";");
if (ind == -1 || ind2 == -1)
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"Content Disposition line misformatted: "+line);
String disposition = lowerline.substring(ind+21,ind2);
if (!disposition.equals("form-data"))
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"Content Disposition of "+disposition+" is not supported");
// determine what the name is
int ind3 = lowerline.indexOf("name=\"",ind2);
int ind4 = lowerline.indexOf("\"",ind3+7);
if (ind3 == -1 || ind4 == -1)
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"Content Disposition line misformatted: "+line);
name = line.substring(ind3+6,ind4);
// determine filename, if any
int ind5 = lowerline.indexOf("filename=\"",ind4+2);
int ind6 = lowerline.indexOf("\"",ind5+10);
if (ind5 != -1 && ind6 != -1) {
filename = line.substring(ind5+10,ind6);
}
// Whew! We now move onto the next line, which
// will either be blank, or Content-Type, followed by blank.
result = in.readLine(b,0,b.length);
if (result == -1) return hash;
line = new String(b,0,0,result-2); // -2 to remove \r\n
lowerline = line.toLowerCase();
if (lowerline.startsWith("content-type")) {
int ind7 = lowerline.indexOf(" ");
if (ind7 == -1)
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"Content-Type line misformatted: "+line);
contentType = lowerline.substring(ind7+1);
// read blank header line
result = in.readLine(b,0,b.length);
if (result == -1) return hash;
line = new String(b,0,0,result-2); // -2 to remove \r\n
if (line.length() != 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"Unexpected line in MIMEpart header: "+line);
}
} else if (line.length() != 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"Misformatted line following disposition: "+line);
}
//read content, implement readahead by one line
boolean readingContent = true;
boolean firstLine = true;
byte[] buffbytes = new byte[buffSize];
int buffnum = 0;
result = in.readLine(b,0,b.length);
if (result == -1) return hash;
line = new String(b,0,0,result);
if (!line.startsWith(boundaryStr)) {
System.arraycopy(b,0,buffbytes,0,result);
buffnum = result;
result = in.readLine(b,0,b.length);
if (result == -1) return hash;
line = new String(b,0,0,result);
firstLine = false;
if (line.startsWith(boundaryStr)) {
readingContent = false;
}
} else {
readingContent = false;
}
while (readingContent) {
content.write(buffbytes,0,buffnum);
System.arraycopy(b,0,buffbytes,0,result);
buffnum = result;
result = in.readLine(b,0,b.length);
if (result == -1) return hash;
line = new String(b,0,0,result);
if (line.startsWith(boundaryStr)) readingContent = false;
}
if (!firstLine) {
// -2 to trim \r\n
if (buffnum>2)
content.write(buffbytes,0,buffnum-2);
}
//now set appropriate variable, populate hashtable
if (filename == null) {
if (hash.get(name) == null) {
String[] values = new String[1];
values[0] = content.toString();
hash.put(name,values);
} else {
Object prevobj = hash.get(name);
if (prevobj instanceof String[]) {
String[] prev = (String[])prevobj;
String[] newStr = new String[prev.length+1];
System.arraycopy(prev,0,newStr,0,prev.length);
newStr[prev.length] = content.toString();
hash.put(name,newStr);
} else {
//now what? I think this breaks the standard.
throw new IllegalArgumentException("failure in
parseMulti hashtable building code");
}
}
} else {
// Yes, we don't return Hashtable[] for multiple files of
same name. AFAIK, that's not allowed.
Hashtable filehash = new Hashtable(4);
filehash.put("name",name);
filehash.put("filename",filename);
if (contentType == null) contentType =
"application/octet-stream";
filehash.put("content-type",contentType);
filehash.put("content",content.toByteArray());
hash.put(name,filehash);
}
}
}
i think it's self-explanatory how to retrieve the values out of the
returned Hashtable.
i prefer this to jason hunter's classes.
-mw
At 12:12 11.06.2001 +0530, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ovais Ahmad Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > now in the servlet's doPost method, i'm using the ServletInputStream to
> > get the data but it's giving me the data in raw format, with all the
> > headers,...
>
>That is why ServletInputStream is there. If you use this, you will have to
>read the data from the inputstream and parse this InputStream to get the
>file.
>
> > now does there exists some trick to get the real data (file) out of
> > this.
>
>There is no trick in doing this. Just parsing the multi part request.
>If you do not want to get into parsing the multi-part request, it is already
>done for you by Jason Hunter.
>His classes are available on the net at
>http://www.servlets.com/cos/index.html
>Jason has detailed these classes in his book Servlet Programming.
>
>Regds,
>Gokul
>
> >
> > thanks
> > --
> > Ovais
>
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