Can't upload files in spring boot - file-upload

Question

I've been struggling with this for the past 3 days now, I keep getting the following exception when I try upload a file in my spring boot project.
org.springframework.web.multipart.support.MissingServletRequestPartException: Required request part 'file' is not present
I'm not sure if it makes a differance but I am deploying my application as a war onto weblogic,
here is my controller
#PostMapping
public AttachmentDto createAttachment(#RequestParam(value = "file") MultipartFile file) {
logger.info("createAttachment - {}", file.getOriginalFilename());
AttachmentDto attachmentDto = null;
try {
attachmentDto = attachmentService.createAttachment(new AttachmentDto(file, 1088708753L));
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return attachmentDto;
}
multi part beans I can see in spring boot actuator
payload seen in chrome

Answer 1

Name attribute is required for #RequestParm 'file'
<input type="file" class="file" name="file"/>

Answer 2

You can try use #RequestPart, because it uses HttpMessageConverter, that takes into consideration the 'Content-Type' header of the request part.
Note that #RequestParam annotation can also be used to associate the part of a "multipart/form-data" request with a method argument supporting the same method argument types. The main difference is that when the method argument is not a String, #RequestParam relies on type conversion via a registered Converter or PropertyEditor while #RequestPart relies on HttpMessageConverters taking into consideration the 'Content-Type' header of the request part. #RequestParam is likely to be used with name-value form fields while #RequestPart is likely to be used with parts containing more complex content (e.g. JSON, XML).
Spring Documentation
Code:
#PostMapping(consumes = MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA_VALUE)
public AttachmentDto createAttachment(#RequestPart("file") MultipartFile file) {
logger.info("Attachment - {}", file.getOriginalFilename());
try {
return attachmentService.createAttachment(new AttachmentDto(file, 1088708753L));
} catch (final IOException e) {
logger.e("Error creating attachment", e);
}
return null;
}

Answer 3

You are using multi part to send files so there is nothing much configuration to do to get desired result.
I m having the same requirement and my code just run fine :
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/api/v2")
public class DocumentController {
private static String bucketName = "pharmerz-chat";
// private static String keyName = "Pharmerz"+ UUID.randomUUID();
#RequestMapping(value = "/upload", method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes = MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
public URL uploadFileHandler(#RequestParam("name") String name,
#RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file) throws IOException {
/******* Printing all the possible parameter from #RequestParam *************/
System.out.println("*****************************");
System.out.println("file.getOriginalFilename() " + file.getOriginalFilename());
System.out.println("file.getContentType()" + file.getContentType());
System.out.println("file.getInputStream() " + file.getInputStream());
System.out.println("file.toString() " + file.toString());
System.out.println("file.getSize() " + file.getSize());
System.out.println("name " + name);
System.out.println("file.getBytes() " + file.getBytes());
System.out.println("file.hashCode() " + file.hashCode());
System.out.println("file.getClass() " + file.getClass());
System.out.println("file.isEmpty() " + file.isEmpty());
/**
BUSINESS LOGIC
Write code to upload file where you want
*****/
return "File uploaded";
}

Answer 4

None of the above solutions worked for me, but when I digged deeper i found that spring security was the main culprit. Even if i was sending the CSRF token, I repeatedly faced the issue POST not supported. I came to know that i was receiving forbidden 403 when i inspected using developer tools in google chrome and saw the status code in the network tab. I added the mapping to ignoredCsrfMapping in Spring Security configuration and then it worked absolutely without any other flaw. Don't know why i was not allowed to post multipart data by security. Some of the mandatory setting that needs to be stated in application.properties file are as follows:
spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size=10MB
spring.servlet.multipart.max-request-size=10MB
spring.http.multipart.max-file-size=10MB
spring.http.multipart.max-request-size=10MB
spring.http.multipart.enabled=true