Spring Boot + Multipart file upload yields a Badly formatted multipart request

Question

I am currently running with Spring Boot v1.3.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT, and Spring v4.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.

If I attempt to perform a multi-file upload (via angular):

myService.upload = function(name ,content) {
    var fd = new FormData();
    fd.append('name', name);
    fd.append('file', content);   

    return $http({
      method: 'POST',
      url: SERVER_BASE_URL + 'upload',
      data: fd,
      transformRequest: angular.identity,
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'
      }}).then(function(res) {       
        return res.headers('Location');
      }, function(reason) {
          throw reason;
      });
};

I get the error:

[WARN] org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request - java.io.IOException: Missing initial multi part boundary at org.eclipse.jetty.util.MultiPartInputStreamParser.parse(MultiPartInputStreamParser.java:507) ~[jetty-util-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.util.MultiPartInputStreamParser.getParts(MultiPartInputStreamParser.java:400) ~[jetty-util-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.getParts(Request.java:2139) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.extractMultipartParameters(Request.java:385) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.extractContentParameters(Request.java:308) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.extractParameters(Request.java:256) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request.getParameter(Request.java:825) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter.doFilterInternal(HiddenHttpMethodFilter.java:70) [spring-web-4.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar:4.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT] at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107) [spring-web-4.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar:4.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT] at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) [jetty-servlet-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilterInternal(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:85) [spring-web-4.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar:4.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT] at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107) [spring-web-4.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar:4.2.2.BUILD-SNAPSHOT] at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) [jetty-servlet-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.ja [jetty-servlet-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:577) [jetty-security-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:223) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515) [jetty-servlet-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:310) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257) [jetty-server-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:540) [jetty-io-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:635) [jetty-util-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.v20150730] at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:555) [jetty-util-9.2.13.v20150730.jar:9.2.13.30]1507 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_45]

I have added A multipart resolver bean:

@Bean
public FilterRegistrationBean openEntityManagerFilterRegistrationBean() {
    // Set upload filter
    final MultipartFilter multipartFilter = new MultipartFilter();
    final FilterRegistrationBean filterRegistrationBean = new FilterRegistrationBean(multipartFilter);
    filterRegistrationBean.addInitParameter("multipartResolverBeanName", "commonsMultipartResolver");

    return filterRegistrationBean;
}

@Bean
public CommonsMultipartResolver commonsMultipartResolver() {
    final CommonsMultipartResolver commonsMultipartResolver = new CommonsMultipartResolver();
    commonsMultipartResolver.setMaxUploadSize(-1);

    return commonsMultipartResolver;
}

However it appears that hiddenHttpMethodFilter is still getting called before my multipart resolver:

[DEBUG] org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler - call filter characterEncodingFilter [DEBUG] org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler - call filter hiddenHttpMethodFilter [WARN] org.eclipse.jetty.util.MultiPartInputStreamParser - Badly formatted multipart request

I tried adding @Order(0) to my Bean, but that had no effect.

What else am I missing?

Answer 1

I do not use filter to upload files.

Try this approach here:

// in configs
  @Bean
     Public MultipartConfigElement multipartConfigElement () {
         End MultipartConfigFactory factory = new MultipartConfigFactory ();
         Factory.setMaxFileSize ( "50MB");
         Factory.setMaxRequestSize ( "50MB");
         Return factory.createMultipartConfig ();
     }

and

        // in controller
         @RequestMapping (value = "/ sendfile", method = RequestMethod.POST)
         Public ModelAndView formSubmit (@RequestParam ( "file") MultipartFile file) {

         }

Note: remember to remove the filters that you put in the configs

I hope to help