hey guys..i haf to upload an image file as well as passing some data fields to a jsp.but by setting <enctype="multipart/form-data">..the image can be uploaded..but when request.getParameter for the other fields,the result is null.i haf search around and a lot people r facing tis problem..but seems tt no one has posted an answer to tis.pls help thx ^_______^

Hello,

I do not think that the command request.getParameter works with the POST method used for passing data from forms, this only works with GET.

You are obviously using the POST method to pass the data to servlet/jsp. I think you will need to parse the other data you want, as you do for the image. Im not sure if there is an easier way, you may find packages that assist with parsing POST data.

Hope this helps.

hi,
   angry cat!.the request.getParameter works for both Get and also Post methods.i have done this using both post and get methods for passing datas from forms.it is definitely working.there may something wrong in that program.

bye

Sonnu

If youve used it then I must be wrong, Ill give it ago myself. Cant remember where I read that, sure it was in a Sun tutorial.

Had a look at the tutorial which states:

The getParameter method works well for simple servlets, but if you need to retrieve the POST parameters in the order they were placed on the web page or handle multi-part posts, you can write your own code to parse the input stream.

So you are right POST data can be extracted with getParameter, but the tutorial implies this may not work well with Multipart Request

http://java.sun.com/developer/online...v.html#getpost

yes angrycat is right.once u use multipart the data passed is encoded..so using normal request.getParameter will not return u the values of the other fields.aniwae i found a way around it..by uploadin the file on a separate page.thx aniwae.