commons-fileupload

[James Ellis <el...@hotmail.com>]

I have a strange situation where the components on a form are dynamically 
built and the form is submitted to an action method "create" on a Controller 
class. Basically the form looks like this:

HtmlPanelGrid
(ROW 1)
--HtmlOutputText
--HtmlPanelGrid
----HtmlSelectOneRadio
----HtmlInputFileUpload
(ROW 2)
--HtmlOutputText
--HtmlPanelGrid
----HtmlSelectOneRadio
----HtmlInputText



Once form is submitted from the "create" method on the Controller class I 
can lookup the values of the HtmlInputText by doing:

[CODE]  String txtBoxValue = request.getParameter(htmlInputText.getId());  
[/CODE]

However, I cannot figure out how to access the file that was submitted (the 
HtmlInputFileUpload).  I tried using commons-fileupload as below:

[code]
public InputStream getFileFromRequest(String fieldName, HttpServletRequest 
request)
{

	FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
	ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);

	InputStream uploadedStream = null;

	List items;

	try
	{
		// Parse the request
		items = upload.parseRequest(request);
		System.out.println("items.size() "+items.size());
	}
	catch(FileUploadException fue)
	{
		System.out.println("Exception trying to parse request for FileItems");
		System.out.println(fue);
		throw new RuntimeException(fue);
	}


	//walk through items in the form
	....

[/code]

but the items.size() is always zero.  I am thinking JSF is intercepting this 
form before I pass it to the "parse" method and somehow this makes the form 
un-parsable" for commons-fileupload.  If this is true...how can I get the 
file that was submitted before JSF messes with it...or better yet, how can I 
get the file that was submitted directly from JSF?