Yes you are right, file full path file is never send. In fact exploring DOM I've found no property to fetch it. Thank you! So I use a simple TextField.
@kinabalu getClinetFilename() does not return the full path, while temp file path is the path on the server where the file is phisically copied, while I was lookin for the original path of the file on the clinet filesystem. Thank you all! ananthakumaran wrote: > > Technically you cann't get the full path of the file using javascript. you > are allowed the access the relative name of the file > only.it is also read only (security reason). otherwise you could upload a > file without the knowledge of the user. > > see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html for reference > > 2010/2/3 Nicola Tucci <nytrus...@gmail.com> > >> Hi all, >> I'm using a FIleUpload form component in order to save the full client >> filename (path + filename, i.e. >> /home/jdoe/myfiles/MyUploadableDocument.pdf), but for what I can see, I >> can >> retrieve only the filename using FileItem.getName(). >> I've tried to deeply debug wicket code to find the full path, but I only >> find client filename, server temp name, content-type, size. >> >> Someone on this forum states that browsers often send only the filename, >> not >> the full path (security reason??), but how can servers bind the source >> file >> without the full name? It must be somewhere, maybe in the servlet >> request... >> >> Besides, there is a smarter way to retrieve the full name (the one that >> appears in the input component!) without perform the upload? My use case >> oblige me to use FileUpload form component because the user use browser's >> popup search dialog. >> >> Thanks to all, >> BYE! >> > > > > -- > ---- > Anantha Kumaran > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Where-is-the-full-client-filename-during-FileUpload--tp27439835p27456734.html Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
