How to convert a multipart file to File?

Question

Can any one tell me what is a the best way to convert a multipart file (org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile) to File (java.io.File) ?

In my spring mvc w

Answer 1

You can access tempfile in Spring by casting if the class of interface MultipartFile is CommonsMultipartFile.

public File getTempFile(MultipartFile multipartFile)
{
    CommonsMultipartFile commonsMultipartFile = (CommonsMultipartFile) multipartFile;
    FileItem fileItem = commonsMultipartFile.getFileItem();
    DiskFileItem diskFileItem = (DiskFileItem) fileItem;
    String absPath = diskFileItem.getStoreLocation().getAbsolutePath();
    File file = new File(absPath);

    //trick to implicitly save on disk small files (<10240 bytes by default)
    if (!file.exists()) {
        file.createNewFile();
        multipartFile.transferTo(file);
    }

    return file;
}

To get rid of the trick with files less than 10240 bytes maxInMemorySize property can be set to 0 in @Configuration @EnableWebMvc class. After that, all uploaded files will be stored on disk.

@Bean(name = "multipartResolver")
    public CommonsMultipartResolver createMultipartResolver() {
        CommonsMultipartResolver resolver = new CommonsMultipartResolver();
        resolver.setDefaultEncoding("utf-8");
        resolver.setMaxInMemorySize(0);
        return resolver;
    }

Answer 2

MultipartFile.transferTo(File) is nice, but don't forget to clean the temp file after all.

// ask JVM to ask operating system to create temp file
File tempFile = File.createTempFile(TEMP_FILE_PREFIX, TEMP_FILE_POSTFIX);

// ask JVM to delete it upon JVM exit if you forgot / can't delete due exception
tempFile.deleteOnExit();

// transfer MultipartFile to File
multipartFile.transferTo(tempFile);

// do business logic here
result = businessLogic(tempFile);

// tidy up
tempFile.delete();

Check out Razzlero's comment about File.deleteOnExit() executed upon JVM exit (which may be extremely rare) details below.

Answer 3

Although the accepted answer is correct but if you are just trying to upload your image to cloudinary, there's a better way:

Map upload = cloudinary.uploader().upload(multipartFile.getBytes(), ObjectUtils.emptyMap());

Where multipartFile is your org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile.