Download a file from server in java

Turns out that if you have a file with spaces in its name, you won't get the entire filename in the response without the double quotes.

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Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? Exploding turkeys and how not to thaw your frozen bird: Top turkey questions Featured on Meta. Since I have written a lot about java servlet recently, I thought to provide a sample example of servlet file upload to server and then download from server to client.

Our use case is to provide a simple HTML page where client can select a local file to be uploaded to server. On submission of request to upload the file, our servlet program will upload the file into a directory in the server and then provide the URL through which user can download the file. For security reason, user will not be provided direct URL for downloading the file, rather they will be given a link to download the file and our servlet will process the request and send the file to user.

We will create a dynamic web project in Eclipse and the project structure will look like below image. We can upload a file to server by sending a post request to servlet and submitting the form. To select a file from user file system, we need to use input element with type as file.

We need to store file into some directory at server, we can have this directory hardcoded in program but for better flexibility, we will keep it configurable in deployment descriptor context params. Also we will add our upload file html page to the welcome file list. Since we need to read context parameter for file location and create a File object from it, we can write a ServletContextListener to do it when context is initialized.

We can set absolute directory location and File object as context attribute to be used by other servlets. Please check out Servlet 3 Upload File. For File upload, we will use Apache Commons FileUpload utility, for our project we are using version 1. FileItem provides useful method to get the file name, field name in form, size and content type details of the file that needs to be uploaded. To write file to a directory, all we need to do it create a File object and pass it as argument to FileItem write method.

Since the whole purpose of the servlet is to upload file, we will override init method to initialise the DiskFileItemFactory object instance of the servlet. We will use this object in the doPost method implementation to upload file to server directory. Once the file gets uploaded successfully, we will send response to client with URL to download the file, since HTML links use GET method,we will append the parameter for file name in the URL and we can utilise the same servlet doGet method to implement file download process.

For implementing download file servlet, first we will open the InputStream for the file and use ServletContext. We will also need to set the response content length as length of the file. Once we are done with setting response configuration, we can read file content from InputStream and write it to ServletOutputStream and the flush the output to client. Check out next article in the series about Servlet Exception Handling. Hey thank you for this tutorial. Hello Sir , Very Beatiful Example.

I want to upload documents for particular user. John upload and views its documents 2. Marry upload and views its documents. This was a great tutorial. I had a few issues with the code at first, but was able to resolve.

As a suggestion it would be helpful to everyone to understand that your code is probably coding in a linux based system verses windows.

If coding in windows, there maybe an issue with the AbsolutePath causing an issue with saving the file to the tempfile directory on the apache server. If using apache as the web server. Also, the code is meant to upload the file once, any subsequent uploads will result in an exception because the file already exist. So, can force remove the existing file or simply add a! Thanks for the inputs. Nevermind this, I resolved this issue with my Intellij artifact setup.

The artifact must include the external libraries. Sorry for the trouble. Thanks for this tutorial,but when i upload the file it shows Exception in uploading file.. I had to change a few things to make this work.

The biggest problem was that fileItem. I tried your code above, it works sometimes, sometimes meaning when I try downloading a 3. What do you think? I tried your code and it store the file in tmp directory. But i need to store in server. How to save the file in url server. Just awesome topic! Its pretty easy to use. I think you can get a free trial if you ask for it. ClassNotFoundException: com. ExpressionFactoryImpl at org. Your code is working fine but I want to upload file with same name as well as same file type.

Please help me in this matter. Thanks in advance. For Ex. File Directory created to be used for storing files java. Unknown Source at java. Unknown Source at org. In the view file I will give users two options for downloading the same file.

I will use link as well as button for downloading the same file from the server. In the service class I have used Http module which may not be found automatically. So I need to register it in providers array of NgModule. Run the Angular application angular-file-download by executing command ng serve --open. When you click on link or button for downloading file you will see below page with file save option:.

When you use the code for displaying data on browser inside download function of controller code and click on button or link, then you should see below output:. For server side code you can read the post on Download file using Angular and Spring Boot. Hi, There is no such step other than running the command for installing file-saver package. You can check what goes wrong in the browser conaole. If only more tutorials on Angular were as succinctly and thoughtfully written as this.

Well done!!