You can simply use a controller method like this:
@RequestMapping(value = "/uploadFile", method = RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseBody
public ResponseEntity<?> uploadFile(
@RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file) {
try {
// Handle the received file here
// ...
}
catch (Exception e) {
return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST);
}
return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.OK);
} // method uploadFile
Without any additional configurations for Spring Boot.
Using the following html form client side:
<html>
<body>
<form action="/uploadFile" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file">
<input type="submit" value="Upload">
</form>
</body>
</html>
If you want to set limits on files size you can do it in the application.properties:
# File size limit
multipart.maxFileSize = 3Mb
# Total request size for a multipart/form-data
multipart.maxRequestSize = 20Mb
Moreover to send the file with Ajax take a look here: http://blog.netgloo.com/2015/02/08/spring-boot-file-upload-with-ajax/