I've read and followed an example file uploading via commons-fileupload api. It works when I post a file, but when I include normal fields like input type="text" it seems like values of field name comes as null. In this case field name as email. Here is a code I am using. Hope experienced eyes of developers out there can point out to me what I am doing wrong. Thank you and have a blessed day!
code in servlet class
try {
List<FileItem> items = upload.parseRequest(request);
for (FileItem item : items) {
if (item.isFormField()) {
if(item.getFieldName().equals("email")) {
payLoad.append("&email=" + item.getString());
}
else {
encodedBase64 = new String(Base64.encodeBase64(item.get()));
payLoad.append("&content=" + encodedBase64);
}
}
payLoad = payLoad.deleteCharAt(0); // payLoad = new StringBuffer()