Using an http POST and sending to a Play! controller fails if the Controller action declares the request as java.io.File. So doing this would give a null value for the File variable in the controller:
HTML Form:
<form action="@{Application.uploadFile()}" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="title" size="40"/>
<input type="file" id="myfile" name="myfile" />
<input type="submit" value="Send it..." />
</form>
And Controller:
public static void uploadFile(File myfile, String title) {
if (myfile != null) {
Logger.info("Got a file");
} else {
Logger.info("Myfile is empty");
}
Logger.info("Title: " + title);
}
To fix this you should not use File but instead use play.data.Upload type as the argument type:
public static void uploadFile(Upload myfile, String title) {
if (myfile != null) {
Logger.info("Got a file");
} else {
Logger.info("Myfile is empty");
}
Logger.info("Title: " + title);
}
For the curious the first instance fails on GAE because on GAE file writes are not allowed and the error
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission…)
is thrown in the Play! method public Map parse(InputStream body) which tries to save the File to disk.
You can also retrieve the contents by using an undocumented variable in the request. You can obtain a List of Uploads from your controller using
List<Upload> uploads = (List<Upload>) request.current().args.get("__UPLOADS");
But this is method is hacky and may break in the future.
