How to get java.io.File from Apache's UploadedFile class?

Question

How do I convert an uploaded file from apache's UploadedFile class to a java.io.File class?

Solution 1

Looking at the documentation (UploadedFile and File) for both classes, here's one solution.

Since you can access the InputStream of the UploadedFile, you can read in the data of the uploaded file and write it to a temporary location or another location that your application can manage.

// assume that you have the UploadedFile object named uploadedFile
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(uploadedFile.getInputStream());
int partition = 1024;
int length = 0;
int position = 0;
char[] buffer = new char[partition];
FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter("out.tmp");
do{
    length = reader.read(buffer, position, partition)
    fstream.write(buffer, position, length);
}while(length > 0);
File file = new File("out.tmp");

Solution 2

The easiest way is to use apache commons FileUtils .

File destFile= new File("somefile.txt");
FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile(uploadedFile.getInputStream(), destFile);

Comments

[Thunder Dragon]

error shown in the following line- while(length = reader.read(buffer, position, partition)) Type mismatch: cannot convert from int to boolean

[Bahadir Tasdemir]

Tried this method but copied file was broken. System said "cannot open file".