changing filenames in a Multipart request ?

[scotth4v]

Hi Guys,

Following your wonderful advice, I've incorporated O'Reilly's multipart request classes to add file upload fuctionality to my bugtracker project. It works beautifully, however, I found a slight bug and was wondering if any of you have come across it, and if so, what are some possible solutions.

The bug: If you upload a file with the same name, it overwrites it. (IE: If someone attaches "error.log", it will replace the old one.)

One thing I considered is to append a unique parameter from the request to the filename (IE append the bug # to the filename, so you'd have "1234error.log" etc.) This would require modifying his classes and creating a new jar file (which I've never done, I'm a newbie... how hard is that? Is that doable within his liscence agreement?

I guess I'm asking what is the best way to rename a file before it gets copied. Is what I've described the best way to do it, if not, what would you recommend?


Thanks a bunch,

-Scott

(Sorry if this is a simple, boneheaded, question. I'm not a Java Developer and I'm teaching myself how to do this stuff and don't have anyone here to bounce ideas off of

 

[scotth4v]

I figured it out...

after the file was uploaded, I renamed it, not before... really simple, as I surmised it would be. Like I said, I'm learning.

Here's the code snippet for the archives...

File f = multi.getFile(name);  
File newfile = new File(issueID+ "_" + filename);   
if (f != null) {          
   f.renameTo(newfile);
   //other statements, etc...
}