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How to upload file using Jersey restful web services?


In this page you will see an example for how to upload a file using Jersey API in restful web services.

In order to implement file upload feature, include jersey-multipart dependency in your pom.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
    			http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>RestfulWebServices</groupId>
	<artifactId>RestfulWebServices</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<packaging>war</packaging>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
			<artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
			<version>1.17</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
			<artifactId>jersey-servlet</artifactId>
			<version>1.17</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>
			<artifactId>jersey-multipart</artifactId>
			<version>1.17</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
</project>

web.xml file reference:

<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
	http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
	    
    <servlet>
		<servlet-name>jersey-serlvet</servlet-name>
			<servlet-class>
                     com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer
                </servlet-class>
		<init-param>
		     <param-name>jersey.config.server.provider.packages</param-name>
		     <param-value>com.java2novice.restful</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>
  
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>jersey-serlvet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Here is the HTML upload form:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
				"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Upload File Example</title>
</head>
<body>
	<h1>Upload File</h1>
    <form action="rest/test/upload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    	<p>Select a file : <input type="file" name="file"/></p>
		<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Here is the upload service class, we are using @FormDataParam annotation to receive uploaded file and FormDataContentDisposition to receive file properties like name, header, etc.

package com.java2novice.restful;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import com.sun.jersey.core.header.FormDataContentDisposition;
import com.sun.jersey.multipart.FormDataParam;

@Path("test")
public class RestUploadService {

	private static final String FOLDER_PATH = "C:\my_files\";
	
	@POST
	@Path("/upload")
	@Consumes(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
	@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
	public String uploadFile(@FormDataParam("file") InputStream fis,
					@FormDataParam("file") FormDataContentDisposition fdcd) {
 
		OutputStream outpuStream = null;
		String fileName = fdcd.getFileName();
		System.out.println("File Name: " + fdcd.getFileName());
		String filePath = FOLDER_PATH + fileName;
		
		try {
			int read = 0;
			byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];
			outpuStream = new FileOutputStream(new File(filePath));
			while ((read = fis.read(bytes)) != -1) {
				outpuStream.write(bytes, 0, read);
			}
			outpuStream.flush();
			outpuStream.close();
		} catch(IOException iox){
			iox.printStackTrace();
		} finally {
			if(outpuStream != null){
				try{outpuStream.close();} catch(Exception ex){}
			}
		}
		return "File Upload Successfully !!";
 	}
}

Try below URL to upload file:

http://localhost:8080/RestfulWebServices/index.html

User Upload Form

Output

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