Add the following dependency in your pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
</dependency>
Add this in your web.xml
<context-param>
<param-name>primefaces.UPLOADER</param-name>
<param-value>commons</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>PrimeFaces FileUpload Filter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.primefaces.webapp.filter.FileUploadFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>PrimeFaces FileUpload Filter</filter-name>
<servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
</filter-mapping>
In h:form it's important to write enctype="multipart/form-data"
ajax="false" for the command button is necessary
Example Using Simple File Upload
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
>
<h:head>
<h:outputStylesheet library="css" name="table-style.css" />
</h:head>
<h:body>
<h:form enctype="multipart/form-data">
<p:panel>
<p:messages showDetail="true"/>
<p:fileUpload value="#{fileUploadBean.file}" mode="simple" />
<p:commandButton value="Submit" ajax="false" actionListener="#{fileUploadBean.upload}"/>
</p:panel>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>
Bean:
package com.malware;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.faces.application.FacesMessage;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import org.primefaces.context.RequestContext;
import org.primefaces.model.UploadedFile;
@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class FileUploadBean implements Serializable{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 3998498873477818990L;
private UploadedFile file;
public void init(){
}
public UploadedFile getFile() {
return file;
}
public void setFile(UploadedFile file) {
this.file = file;
}
public void upload() {
if(file != null) {
FacesMessage msg = new FacesMessage(FacesMessage.SEVERITY_INFO, "Successfully Uploaded File " , file.getFileName());
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage(null, msg);
}
}
}
