File Multiple Upload Using Struts 2

Posted by John C.
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Tech Innovation
Jul 22, 2015
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Image To achieve this, there are some changes required on both client side and server side:
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  • Client side: use multiple <s:file> tags that allow user to pick up as many files as needed.
  • Server side: in the action class, modify type of the member variables from single object to an array or a list as follows:
  1.    File X to String[] X or List<File> X
  2.    String XFileName to String[] XFileName or List<String> XFileName
  3.    String XContentType to String[] XContentType or List<String> XContentType

Where X is the name of the <s:file> tags in upload form, for example:
<s:file name="fileUpload" />

1. About the upload multiple files example

The following example program demonstrates how to implement functionality to upload multiple files with Struts 2 framework. The application shows an upload form which allows user to pick up three files to upload at once.

2. Write code for upload form

The upload form is implemented in the upload.jsp page as follows:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>   
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Multiple Files Upload with Struts2</title>
</head>
<body>
    <center>
        <h2>Pick multiple files to upload</h2>
        <s:form action="uploadFile" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
            <s:file name="fileUpload" label="Pick file #1" size="30"/>
            <s:file name="fileUpload" label="Pick file #2" size="30"/>
            <s:file name="fileUpload" label="Pick file #3" size="30"/>
            <br/>
            <s:submit value="Upload All" />
        </s:form>
    </center>
</body>
</html>
When running, the page looks like this:

multiple files upload form
On submitting of this form, the action uploadFile is invoked.

3. Write code for action class

Implement Struts 2’s action class in MultipleFilesUploadAction.java file as follows:
package com.geekonjava.struts;
 
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
 
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
 
public class MultipleFilesUploadAction {
    private File[] fileUpload;
    private String[] fileUploadFileName;
    private String[] fileUploadContentType;
     
    /**
     * This is the path to save uploaded file, which is configured in struts.xml
     */
    private String saveDirectory;
 
    public String doUpload() {
 
        // copy the uploaded files into pre-configured location
        for (int i = 0; i < fileUpload.length; i++) {
            File uploadedFile = fileUpload[i];
            String fileName = fileUploadFileName[i];
            File destFile = new File(saveDirectory + File.separator + fileName);
            try {
                FileUtils.copyFile(uploadedFile, destFile);
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                System.out.println("Could not copy file " + fileName);
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
         
        return "success";
    }
     
    public File[] getFileUpload() {
        return fileUpload;
    }
 
    public void setFileUpload(File[] fileUploads) {
        this.fileUpload = fileUploads;
    }
 
    public String[] getFileUploadFileName() {
        return fileUploadFileName;
    }
 
    public void setFileUploadFileName(String[] fileUploadFileNames) {
        this.fileUploadFileName = fileUploadFileNames;
    }
 
    public String[] getFileUploadContentType() {
        return fileUploadContentType;
    }
 
    public void setFileUploadContentType(String[] fileUploadContentTypes) {
        this.fileUploadContentType = fileUploadContentTypes;
    }
 
    public String getSaveDirectory() {
        return saveDirectory;
    }
 
    public void setSaveDirectory(String saveDir) {
        this.saveDirectory = saveDir;
    }
}
In this POJO action class, we use three arrays to store uploaded files:


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