JSF 1.2 Rich File upload throwing IOException

Question

I am trying to implement rich:fileUpload in a very old system using java8, JSF 1.2, RichFaces 3.3.3.Final,.net.java.dev.ajax4jsf 1.0.6, on Glassfish 4.1. The system is massive so please don't ask me to update it, that will take 10 years:)

I have been hacking at it for many days now and keep running into a wall. Any help or guidance will be greatly appreciated.

When I open the web app I am able to select a file and click on upload, it then hangs there for a second or two and then fails. It never reaches my backing bean.

This is what I have so far: In my xhtml:

xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich

<h:form enctype="multipart/form-data">
   <rich:fileUpload fileUploadListener="#{fileUploadBean.fileUploadListener}"/>
</h:form>

In my web.xml:

  <filter>
    <display-name>RichFaces Filter</display-name>
    <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.ajax4jsf.Filter</filter-class>
      <init-param>
          <param-name>createTempFiles</param-name>
          <param-value>false</param-value>
      </init-param>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>richfaces</filter-name>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
  </filter-mapping>
  <filter>

In my FileUploadBean.java

@ManagedBean(name = "fileUploadBean")
@SessionScoped
public class FileUploadBean{

    public void fileUploadListener(UploadEvent uploadEvent) throws FileNotFoundException {
        FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
        ServletContext servletContext = (ServletContext)facesContext.getExternalContext().getContext();
        String realTargetPath = servletContext.getRealPath("/");
        UploadItem uploadItem = uploadEvent.getUploadItem();
        String filePathname = uploadItem.getFileName();
        String fileName = "";
        System.out.println("STOP");
    }

When I try to upload a file I get:

The stack trace:

[2022-04-24T10:18:30.122+0200] [glassfish 4.1] [WARNING] [] [javax.enterprise.web] [tid: _ThreadID=72 _ThreadName=http-listener-1(2)] [timeMillis: 1650788310122] [levelValue: 900] [[
  StandardWrapperValve[Faces Servlet]: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
org.ajax4jsf.exception.FileUploadException: IO Error parsing multipart request
    at org.ajax4jsf.request.MultipartRequest.getParam(MultipartRequest.java:556)
    at org.ajax4jsf.request.MultipartRequest.getParameter(MultipartRequest.java:616)
    at com.freesoft.http.FsSessionFilter.doFilter(FsSessionFilter.java:55)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:256)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:214)
    at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:206)
    at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.handleRequest(BaseFilter.java:290)
    at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.processUploadsAndHandleRequest(BaseFilter.java:367)
    at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:515)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:256)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:214)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:316)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.__invoke(StandardContextValve.java:160)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:41002)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:734)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:673)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebPipeline.invoke(WebPipeline.java:99)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:174)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:415)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:282)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper$HttpHandlerCallable.call(ContainerMapper.java:459)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:167)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.runService(HttpHandler.java:201)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpHandler.doHandle(HttpHandler.java:175)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServerFilter.handleRead(HttpServerFilter.java:235)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$9.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:119)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:284)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:201)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:133)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:112)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransport.fireIOEvent(TCPNIOTransport.java:561)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.AbstractIOStrategy.fireIOEvent(AbstractIOStrategy.java:112)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.run0(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:117)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy.access$100(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:56)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.WorkerThreadIOStrategy$WorkerThreadRunnable.run(WorkerThreadIOStrategy.java:137)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:565)
    at org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:545)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Request data cannot be read
    at org.ajax4jsf.request.MultipartRequest.readData(MultipartRequest.java:341)
    at org.ajax4jsf.request.MultipartRequest.readNext(MultipartRequest.java:210)
    at org.ajax4jsf.request.MultipartRequest.getParam(MultipartRequest.java:551)
    ... 38 more
]]

Answer 1

Following code worked for me in RichFaces project years ago (it is from RichFaces 4, but I guess very similar been used in RichaFaces 3):

<h:form id="bannerSetupForm" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <rich:fileUpload id="bannerUploader"
        fileUploadListener="#{retailerAction.bannerListener}"
        acceptedTypes="png, gif, jpg, jpeg"
        noDuplicate="true"
        ontyperejected="alert('#{msg.bannerFormatRestriction}');"
        maxFilesQuantity="1"
        addLabel="#{msg.bannerUploadAddButtonLabel}"
        uploadLabel="#{msg.bannerUploadUploadButtonLabel}">
        <a4j:ajax event="uploadcomplete" execute="@none"
            render="bannerPreviewPopup, bannerAccordionItem" />
    </rich:fileUpload>
</h:form>

But in my case upload parameters were set up in web.xml in different way:

<context-param>
    <param-name>org.richfaces.fileUpload.maxRequestSize</param-name>
    <param-value>524288</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
    <param-name>org.richfaces.fileUpload.createTempFiles</param-name>
    <param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>

Even if in majority of cases it is not necessary, you can add commons-fileupload-1.3.1.jar in lib folder of your application. Please check jar version, as for older RichFaces it could be lower.

And you can verify value of X-Frame-Options header here . Sometimes file upload does not work, if value of header is incorrect.