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Model FileUpload model to mimic javax.servlet.Request

           Summary: Model FileUpload model to mimic javax.servlet.Request
           Product: Commons
           Version: 1.0 Final
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: File Upload
        AssignedTo: commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: wstranathan@hotmail.com


Request to make the API more consistent with the getParameter(String name) and 
getParameterValues(String name) models of javax.servlet.Request.

1) For FileUpload to have getParemeter(String name) or getParameterValues
(String name) - should implemented on top of the current API so that there are 
no backward-compatibility issues. 
2) At LEAST working out a kink where multi-valued parameters actually appear as 
separate FileItems with the same value returned by getFieldName(). 

Example of new model: 

DiskFileUpload upload = new DiskFileUpload(); 
// Now, rather than applying an Iterator to parseRequest, 
// call the same method, but pull the individual items from the 
// DiskFileUpload object itself 
upload.parseRequest(request); 
FileItem myfile = (FileItem)upload.getParameter("myfile"); 
// And this looks ALMOST like ServletRequest.getParameter(String name) 
String lastname = (String)upload.getParameter("lastname"); 
String[] favoriteColours = upload.getParameterValues("favoritecolours"); 

Alternately, a getFileItem(String name) method could be added in order to 
shield the user from having to cast the result of getParameter(String name) to 
a FileItem - and this same method could wrap ordinary field values in FileItems 
similarly to the way they are returned in the Iterator.

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