MULTIPART_FORM_DATA: No injection source found for a parameter of type public javax.ws.rs.core.Response

Question

I am using Jersey based restful Service implementation strategy to build a service which will be used to upload files. My service class name is : UploadFileService.java (See Code below)

 package com.jerser.service;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import com.sun.jersey.core.header.FormDataContentDisposition;
import com.sun.jersey.multipart.FormDataParam;

@Path("/fileUpload")
public class UploadFileService {

    @POST
    @Path("/upload")
    @Consumes(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
    public Response uploadFile(
        @FormDataParam("file") InputStream uploadedInputStream,
        @FormDataParam("file") FormDataContentDisposition fileDetail) {

        String uploadedFileLocation = "d://uploaded/" + fileDetail.getFileName();

        // save it
        writeToFile(uploadedInputStream, uploadedFileLocation);

        String output = "File uploaded to : " + uploadedFileLocation;

        return Response.status(200).entity(output).build();

    }

    // save uploaded file to new location
    private void writeToFile(InputStream uploadedInputStream,
        String uploadedFileLocation) {

        try {
            OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File(
                    uploadedFileLocation));
            int read = 0;
            byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];

            out = new FileOutputStream(new File(uploadedFileLocation));
            while ((read = uploadedInputStream.read(bytes)) != -1) {
                out.write(bytes, 0, read);
            }
            out.flush();
            out.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

}

These are the JAR files I have inside my lib:

aopalliance-repackaged-2.4.0-b10.jar     
asm-debug-all-5.0.2.jar     
hk2-api-2.4.0-b10.jar  
hk2-locator-2.4.0-b10.jar     
hk2-utils-2.4.0-b10.jar     
javassist-3.18.1-GA.jar     
javax.annotation-api-1.2.jar     
javax.inject-2.4.0-b10.jar     
javax.servlet-api-3.0.1.jar     
javax.ws.rs-api-2.0.1.jar     
jaxb-api-2.2.7.jar     
jersey-client.jar     
jersey-common.jar     
jersey-container-servlet-core.jar     
jersey-container-servlet.jar     
jersey-core-1.11.jar     
jersey-guava-2.17.jar     
jersey-media-jaxb.jar  
jersey-multipart-1.18.jar    
jersey-server.jar
org.osgi.core-4.2.0.jar
osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar     
persistence-api-1.0.jar    
validation-api-1.1.0.Final.jar

I am getting the following error when I am trying to up my tomcat server :

org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ModelValidationException: Validation of the application resource model has failed during application initialization.
[[FATAL] No injection source found for a parameter of type public javax.ws.rs.core.Response com.jerser.service.UploadFileService.uploadFile(java.io.InputStream,com.sun.jersey.core.header.FormDataContentDisposition) at index 0.; source='ResourceMethod{httpMethod=POST, consumedTypes=[multipart/form-data], producedTypes=[], suspended=false, suspendTimeout=0, suspendTimeoutUnit=MILLISECONDS, invocable=Invocable{handler=ClassBasedMethodHandler{handlerClass=class com.jerser.service.UploadFileService, handlerConstructors=[org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.HandlerConstructor@d3e2d4]}, definitionMethod=public javax.ws.rs.core.Response com.jerser.service.UploadFileService.uploadFile(java.io.InputStream,com.sun.jersey.core.header.FormDataContentDisposition), parameters=[Parameter [type=class java.io.InputStream, source=file, defaultValue=null], Parameter [type=class com.sun.jersey.core.header.FormDataContentDisposition, source=file, defaultValue=null]], responseType=class javax.ws.rs.core.Response}, nameBindings=[]}']
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.initialize(ApplicationHandler.java:528)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.access$500(ApplicationHandler.java:166)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler$3.run(ApplicationHandler.java:327)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$2.call(Errors.java:289)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$2.call(Errors.java:286)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:315)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:297)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.processWithException(Errors.java:286)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.<init>(ApplicationHandler.java:324)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.WebComponent.<init>(WebComponent.java:338)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.init(ServletContainer.java:171)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.init(ServletContainer.java:363)
    at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1176)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1102)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1009)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4885)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$3.call(StandardContext.java:5212)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$3.call(StandardContext.java:5207)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Over the internet I found there are plenty of example which shows How to upload MULTIPART file using RESTFul API. But with same solution. I am not able to run those code as well. I think I am doing something wrong with the JAR files. Could anyone please help me on this?

Answer 1

Get rid of jersey-multipart-1.18.jar. That is for Jersey 1.x. Add these two

• jersey-media-multipart-2.17
• mimepull-1.9.3

For Maven you would use the following dependency (you don't need to explicitly add the mimepull dependency, as this one will pull it in).

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-media-multipart</artifactId>
    <version>2.17</version> <!-- Make sure the Jersey version matches
                                 the one you are currently using -->
</dependency>

Then you need to register the MultiPartFeature. If you are using a ResourceConfig for configuration, you can simply do

register(MultiPartFeature.class);

If you are using web.xml, then you can add the class as an <init-param> to the Jersey servlet

<init-param>
    <param-name>jersey.config.server.provider.classnames</param-name>
    <param-value>org.glassfish.jersey.media.multipart.MultiPartFeature</param-value>
</init-param>

Note that if you have multiple providers that you want to register, then you can delimit each provider class with a comma, semicolon, or space/newline. You cannot use this same param-name twice. See Suarabh's answer

UPDATE

Also, once you get rid of jersey-multipart-1.18.jar you will have compile errors for the missing imported classes. For the most part, the class names are still the same, just the packages have changed, i.e.

• org.glassfish.jersey.media.multipart.FormDataParam
• org.glassfish.jersey.media.multipart.FormDataContentDisposition

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For Dropwizard

If you're using Dropwizard, instead of adding the jersey-media-multipart, they document for your to add dropwizard-forms instead. And instead of registering the MultiPartFeature, you should register the MultiPartBundle

@Override
public void initialize(Bootstrap<ExampleConfiguration> bootstrap) {
    bootstrap.addBundle(new MultiPartBundle());
}

Really doesn't make much difference though as all the Dropwizard bundle does is register the MultiPartFeature with the ResourceConfig.

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Aside

If you are here for a different ModelValidationException, here are some links for information on other causes of the exception.

• 1
• 2
• 3

Answer 2

Yet another possible cause for this very generic error is that Jersey only searches for factories associated with the last annotation when multiple ones are declared on a param. (See bug report)

Until this is fixed, if you are using any other annotations besides @FormDataParam, it has to come last.

This works:

@NotEmpty @FormDataParam("myParam") String myParam

This does not:

@FormDataParam("myParam") @NotEmpty String myParam

Answer 3

I too got the same exception.I did the following changes in web.xml

<init-param>
            <param-name>jersey.config.server.provider.classnames</param-name>
            <param-value>org.glassfish.jersey.filter.LoggingFilter;org.glassfish.jersey.moxy.json.MoxyFeature;org.glassfish.jersey.media.multipart.MultiPartFeature</param-value>
        </init-param>

and changed jersey 2.7 to 2.9 .I do not know what change of this 2 has solved the issue.