Uploadify plugin doesn't call Java Servlet

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2272160

Question

i just started using Uploadify flash plugin instead of standard HTML UI.
And met the next problem:

when I click "Upload Files" link,that progress is shown and "completed" status is appeared, but in reality - it didn't happened anything,Java Servlet isn't called from backend.

There is upload servlet and uploading performed next way earlier:

< form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" target="uploadFrame"
action="<%= request.getContextPath() %>/uploadFile?portletId=${portletId}&remoteFolder=${remoteFolder}">...

After providing Uploadify plugin, UI now looks like:

plugin part(configuration):

    <script>
...  
         oScript.text+= "$j('#uploadify').uploadify({";
      oScript.text+= "'uploader' : 'kne-portlets/js/lib/uploadify/scripts/uploadify.swf',";
      oScript.text+= "'script'   : '<%= request.getContextPath() %>/uploadFile?portletId=${portletId}&remoteFolder=<%= decodedString %>',";
      oScript.text+= "'cancelImg': 'kne-portlets/js/lib/uploadify/cancel.png',";
      oScript.text+= "'folder'   : '<%= decodedString %>',";
      oScript.text+= "'queueID'  : 'fileQueue',";
      oScript.text+= "'auto'     : false,";
      oScript.text+= "'multi'    : false,";
      //oScript.text+= "'sizeLimit' : 1000";
      oScript.text+= "});";
      oScript.text+= "});"; 
...   
</script>

'scripts' parameter here points to Java Servlet on backend

<%= decodedString %> is folder path, which value is \\file-srv\demo

part for uploading:

<input type="file" name="uploadify" id="uploadify" />
<a href="javascript:$j('#uploadify').uploadifyUpload();">Upload Files</a>

Where is my fault?

'Script' param in plugin config points to Java Servlet on backend and it's done,but Servlet isn't triggered.

error, when 'script' param isn't correct:http://img190.imageshack.us/i/errormm.png/

Thank you for assistance.

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Solution

This can have a lot of possible causes (also see the comments I posted).

  • External JS is not loaded.
  • JS code is syntactically/logically invalid.
  • Request URL is invalid.
  • Servlet is not mapped at all.
  • Servlet is mapped on wrong url-pattern.
  • Servlet failed to start/init.

It's hard to naildown the root cause based on the as far given information.

As you mentioned that you didn't see any request been fired in the "Net" tab of FireBug, I think that the JS code is simply syntactically/logically invalid. Rightclick page and doubleverify generated/printed JS code.

Update: I tried to reproduce your problem.

  1. I downloaded jquery.uploadify-v2.1.0 (MIT), extracted it and put the entire contents in the /WebContent/uploadify folder of my (empty) playground web project in Eclipse.

  2. I created a /WebContent/upload.jsp file as follows:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>Uploadify test</title>
        <script src="uploadify/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
        <script src="uploadify/swfobject.js"></script>
        <script src="uploadify/jquery.uploadify.v2.1.0.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function() {
                $('#uploadify').uploadify({
                    'uploader': 'uploadify/uploadify.swf',
                    'script': 'uploadServlet',
                    'folder': '/uploads',
                    'cancelImg': 'uploadify/cancel.png'
                });
                $('#upload').click(function() {
                    $('#uploadify').uploadifyUpload();
                    return false;
                });
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <input id="uploadify" type="file">
        <a id="upload" href="#">Upload</a>
    </body>
</html>

  3. I created a com.example.UploadServlet as follows with little help of Apache Commons FileUpload (just placed commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar and commons-io-1.4.jar in /WEB-INF/lib):

    package com.example;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.disk.DiskFileItemFactory;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.ServletFileUpload;

public class UploadServlet extends HttpServlet {
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
        throws ServletException, IOException
    {
        System.out.println("UploadServlet invoked. Here are all uploaded files: ");
        try {
            List<FileItem> items = new ServletFileUpload(new DiskFileItemFactory()).parseRequest(request);
            for (FileItem item : items) {
                if (!item.isFormField()) {
                    System.out.println("Name: " + item.getName());
                    System.out.println("Size: " + item.getSize());
                    System.out.println("Type: " + item.getContentType());
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new ServletException(e);
        }
    }
}

  4. I registered com.example.UploadServlet in web.xml as follows:

    <servlet>
    <servlet-name>uploadServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.example.UploadServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>uploadServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/uploadServlet</url-pattern>        
</servlet-mapping>

  5. I deployed the project, started the server, went to http://localhost:8080/playground/upload.jsp, selected a random big file from my downloads folder, clicked the Upload link, see the upload percentage counter growing to 100% and I finally see the following in the stdout:

    UploadServlet invoked. Here are all uploaded files: 
Name: glassfish-v3-windows.exe
Size: 50402555
Type: application/octet-stream

I'm sorry to say, I can't reproduce your problem. At least, the above information should help you to get started "freshly". Hope it helps.

Update: as per the comments, the filter expects that it is using the same session. Ok, you can do this fairly easy by changing

'<%= request.getContextPath() %>/uploadFile?portletId=${portletId}&remoteFolder=<%= decodedString %>',";

to

'<%= request.getContextPath() %>/uploadFile;jsessionid=${pageContext.session.id}?portletId=${portletId}&remoteFolder=<%= decodedString %>',";

OTHER TIPS

I was having the exact same issue with uploadify 2.1.4. I played around with this long enough to figure out that it appears to be a problem with a nested URI path, i.e. /folder1/folder2/folder3, etc. As soon as I changed my path to use the base path (just /folder1, or /uploadServlet like @BalusC was using) the SWF file began sending data to my servlet.

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