Can we create FileItem object from file name and location?

Question

Can we create FileItem object from given file name and file location using Java? If we use commons-fileupload jar we can upload file using jsp/html and in servlet on parsing request we will get List<FileItem>. But I want to do file upload using plain java where I want to create FileItem object manually (I don't want to use byte[] array to store the file). So is there any way to create FileItem object manually?

Answer 1

Yes, you can.

Use the DiskFileItemFactory like this:

DiskFileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
FileItem fi = factory.createItem("formFieldName", "application/zip", false,
    "/var/temp/somefile.zip");

Obviously use content type and other parameters appropriate to your case.