File upload using RichFaces

Question

I am currently looking in to some file uploading using Java Server Faces. I\'ve found this great introduction to it using RichFaces. However, I have some troubles understanding

Answer 1

Not sure how much help this is (and probably way too late!), but this is the code I use on the server side, equivalent to your listener.

public String uploadFile(UploadEvent event) {
    UploadItem item = event.getUploadItem();

    String name = "unnamed_attachment";
    byte[] data = item.getData();

    try {
        name = FilenameUtils.getName(item.getFileName());
        data = FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(item.getFile());
        logger.info("data.length = " + data.length);
        UploadDetails details = new UploadDetails(); // This is a javabean that gets persisted to database (actually a ejb3 entity bean, but thats irrelevant)

        details.setBytes(data);
        details.setResume(true);
        // Save to database here 

    } catch (Exception e) {
        FaceletsUtil.addSystemErrorMessage();
        logger.error(e, e);
    }
    return null;
}

The big question remaining is you say "how would you make the file available to the webbapplication?". The byte array is available immediately. If you want to re-download the file, you can provide it as a link to a method in a JSF session/view bean like:

                                

public void downloadFile() {
    final HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getResponse();

    response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=radar-report" + new Date() + ".pdf"); // or whatever type you're sending back
    try {
        response.getOutputStream().write(uploadDetails.getBytes()); // from the UploadDetails bean
        response.setContentLength(uploadDetails.getBytes().length);
        response.getOutputStream().flush();
        response.getOutputStream().close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        logger.error(e, e);  
    }
    FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().responseComplete();
}