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Author's profile photo Jenish Prabhu

File upload using SAPUI5 Control

Below is the approach that I tried and successfully able to upload File to the Gateway Service.

Step1: Extend FileUploader (sap.ui.unified.FileUploader)

          

Overwrite  the Upload method by AJAX call passing X-CSRF-Token

               jQuery.sap.declare(“com.ODataFileUploader.Component”);

               jQuery.sap.require(“sap.ui.unified.FileUploader”);

               sap.ui.unified.FileUploader.extend(“com.ODataFileUploader.Component”, {

               metadata : {

                        properties : {

                                “modelName” : “string”,

                                “slug”    : “string”,

                                “csrf” : “string”

                                }

                                },

                        upload : function() {

                                var file = jQuery.sap.domById(this.getId() + “-fu”).files[0];

                                try {

                                if (file) {

                                                this._bUploading = true;

                                                var that = this;

                                                var _handleSuccess = function(data, textStatus, jqXHR){

                                                that.fireUploadComplete({“response”: “Success: File uploaded to entity” });

                                                that._bUploading = false;

                                };

                                var _handleError = function(data){

                                var errorMsg = ”;

                                if (data.responseText[1]){

                                                errorMsg = /<message>(.*?)<\/message>/.exec(data.responseText)[1];

                                }else{

                                                errorMsg = ‘Something bad happened’;

                                }

                                that.fireUploadComplete({“response”: “Error: ” + errorMsg});

                                that._bUploading = false;

                        };

                        var oHeaders = {

                                “x-csrf-token”: this.mProperties.csrf,

                                “slug”: this.mProperties.slug,

                                “X-Requested-With”: “XMLHttpRequest”,

                                “Content-Type”: file.type,

                                “DataServiceVersion”: “2.0”,

                                “Accept” : “text/plain, */*”

                                };

                        jQuery.ajax({

                                type: ‘POST’,

                                url: this.getUploadUrl(),

                                headers: oHeaders,

                                cache: false,

                                contentType: file.type,

                                dataType: “text”,

                                processData: false,

                                data: file,

                                success: _handleSuccess,

                                error: _handleError

                        });

                        jQuery.sap.log.info(“File uploading to ” + this.getUploadUrl());

                        }

                    } catch(oException) {

                        jQuery.sap.log.error(“File upload failed:\n” + oException.message);

                        }

                        },

                        renderer : {

                                                }

                        });

Step2: Fetch X-CSRF-Token

var url1 = getUrl(“/sap/opu/odata/sap/ZGW_FILES_APP_SRV”);

          var csrfToken = “”;

          var aData = jQuery.ajax({

          url : url1,

          headers: { “X-CSRF-Token”:”Fetch” ,

              “X-Requested-With”: “XMLHttpRequest”,

              “DataServiceVersion”: “2.0” },    

          type: “GET”,

          contentType : “application/json”,

          dataType : ‘json’,

success : function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {

          csrfToken = jqXHR.getResponseHeader(‘x-csrf-token’);

          oFileUploader1.setCsrf(csrfToken);

          oFileUploader1.setSlug(“200000664_MOB15”);

          oFileUploader1.setUploadUrl(getUrl(“/sap/opu/odata/sap/ZGW_FILES_APP_SRV/FileSet”));

              oFileUploader1.upload();

              },

          error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {

          }

          });

          }

});

Step3: Call File Upload Service by passing already Fetched X-CSRF-Token along with any inputs in the HTTP Headers

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Step4: Upload the Actual file on Screen

From Desktop:


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From Mobile:

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Step5: Trigger Upload Action

var btnSubmit = new sap.m.Button({

                     text:‘Trigger Upload’,

            press:function() {

           

              var url1 = getUrl(“/sap/opu/odata/sap/ZGW_FILES_APP_SRV”);

                        

                           var csrfToken = “”;

                        

                           var aData = jQuery.ajax({  

                                url : url1,

                             

                                headers: { “X-CSRF-Token”:“Fetch” ,

                                          “X-Requested-With”: “XMLHttpRequest”,

                                                       “Content-Type”: “image/jpeg”,

                                                       “DataServiceVersion”: “2.0” },

                             

                                type: “GET”,

                              //jsonpCallback : ‘getJSON’,

                              contentType : “application/json”,

                              dataType : ‘json’,

                           

                              //data : “”,

                              success : function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {

                                    csrfToken = jqXHR.getResponseHeader(‘x-csrf-token’);

                                 

                                    oFileUploader1.setCsrf(csrfToken);

                                    oFileUploader1.setSlug(“2000006”);

                                 

                                    oFileUploader1.setUploadUrl(getUrl(“/sap/opu/odata/sap/ZGW_FILES_APP_SRV/FileSet”));

                                 

                                

                                    oFileUploader1.upload();

                                 

                              },

                              error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {

                                

                              }

                         

                            });

                        

            }

              });

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      Author's profile photo Sivadurga Prasad Madhuranthakam
      Sivadurga Prasad Madhuranthakam

      Hi Jenish, it is a very helpful blog. I am working on file uploader functionality. I have created gateway service which upload files through GOS. Now in UI5 I am getting csrf token thru ajax call. I am stuck with file uploader extend, this extension must be done where?? can you please guide me with this.

      Best regards,

      Siva

      Author's profile photo Jenish Prabhu
      Jenish Prabhu
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Sivadurga,

      You can have that declared in separate FileUploader.js file and refer it.

      Author's profile photo Sivadurga Prasad Madhuranthakam
      Sivadurga Prasad Madhuranthakam

      Jenish, thanks for your reply, I have extended this API in index.html under <script> tag. Its working fine, i am able to upload files from FIORI App to SAP.

      Best regards,

      Siva

      Author's profile photo Jenish Prabhu
      Jenish Prabhu
      Blog Post Author

      Wonderful 🙂

      Author's profile photo Sagar Patil
      Sagar Patil

      Hi Jenish,

      Thanks for your post.It helped me to upload the file to gateway server successfully.

      You have used the sap.ui.unified.FileUploader to upload the files.

      It would be of great help if you let me know the end to end process of how file upload can be achieved using sap.m.UploadCollection.i.e. from SAPUI5 application to  abap server using gateway services.

      In sap.m.UploadCollection we have option to upload multiple files. I want to know, how it is handled in gateway services.

      Thanks and Regards,

      Sagar M Patil

      Author's profile photo Prabhat Singh Pathania
      Prabhat Singh Pathania

      Hi.
      Do you have any useful links for the same?

      Author's profile photo Faiza Anjum
      Faiza Anjum

      Hello Prabhat,

      I have a similar requirement. I need to upload multiple attachments which can be of different types. I want to do this via UploadCollection and finally send the group of attachments to abap server as a gateway service.
      Were you able to achieve this.
      Any help in this regard is appreciated

      Kind Regards,

      Faiza.

      Author's profile photo Prabhat Singh Pathania
      Prabhat Singh Pathania

      Hi Faiza,

      Yes I was able to do file upload using Upload Collection.
      I didn't use 'pending' feature though.

      I checked your profile, if you have sap ID, then we can discuss over skype call.
      Else I will try to explain things here.

      Regards,
      Prabhat.Singh.Pathania

      Author's profile photo Faiza Anjum
      Faiza Anjum

      Hello Sagar,

      I have a similar requirement. I need to upload multiple attachments which can be of different types. I want to do this via UploadCollection and finally send the group of attachments to abap server as a gateway service.
      Were you able to achieve this.
      Any help in this regard is appreciated

      Kind Regards,

      Faiza.

      Author's profile photo Akhilesh Upadhyay
      Akhilesh Upadhyay

      Hello Faiza,

      I have implemented it as below, i am not sure but might work for you, also i have attach a link below that might help you to understand the backend part as well.

      //In XML :

      <UploadCollection change="onAttachmentChange"

      fileDeleted="onAttachmentDeleted" fileRenamed="onAttachmentRenamed"

      fileSizeExceed="onAttachmentSizeExceeded"

      fileType="{detailView>/allowedFileExtension}"

      id="idAttachments" maximumFilenameLength="255"

      multiple="false" noDataText="No attachment found"

      showSeparators="All" typeMissmatch="onAttachmentTypeMissmatched"

      uploadComplete="onAttachmentUploadComplete"

      uploadEnabled="true" uploadUrl="{detailView>/attachmentUploadURL}">

          < UploadCollectionItem contributor="{CreatedBy}"

          documentId="{Itemno}" enableDelete="true"

          enableEdit="false" fileName="{Filename}"

          id=" idAttachmentItem " mimeType="{Mimetype}"

          uploadedDate="{ path: 'CreatedOn', type: 'sap.ui.model.type.Date',  formatOptions: {pattern: 'dd.MM.yyyy'} }"

          url="{Url}" visibleDelete="{app>/requestEditMode}"

          visibleEdit="false" />

      </UploadCollection>

      //Controller file:

      //On Init :

      this._oAttachments = this.byId("idAttachments");

      this._oAttachmentItem = this.byId("idAttachmentItem").clone();

      this._oComponent = this.getOwnerComponent();

      this._oModel = this._oComponent.getModel();

      this._oSecurityToken = null;

      this._oViewProperties = new JSONModel({

          busy: false,

          delay: 0,

          allowedFileExtension: ["jpg", "png", "bmp", "doc", "docx", "xls", "xlsx", "ppt", "pptx", "pdf", "msg"],

          attachmentUploadURL: ""

      });

      this.setModel(oViewModel, "detailView");

      //While binding the view, bind attachment also by calling below method:

      _bindAttachments: function(sObjectPath) {

          var sBindingPath = sObjectPath + "/Attachments";

          this._oAttachments.bindAggregation("items", {

              path: sBindingPath,

              template: this._oAttachmentItem,

              templateShareable: true

          });

      //update upload url for control

          var _sUploadURL = window.location.origin + (this._oModel.sServiceUrl +      sObjectPath) + "/Attachments";

          this._oViewProperties.setProperty("/attachmentUploadURL", _sUploadURL);

      }

      // to get xcsrf token, call below function once view is binded, which might used below

           this._oModel.refreshSecurityToken(jQuery.proxy(this._getSecToken, this));

           _getSecToken: function(oData, oResponse) {

              this._oSecurityToken = oResponse.headers['x-csrf-token'];

          },

      //UploadCollection events :

        onAttachmentChange: function(oEvent) {

              var sFileName = "";

              var aFiles = oEvent.getParameter("files");

              for (var i = 0; i < aFiles.length; i++) {

                  sFileName = aFiles[i].name;

                  break;

              }

              var oCustomerHeaderSlug = new sap.m.UploadCollectionParameter({

                  name: "slug",

                  value: sFileName

              });

              oEvent.getSource().addHeaderParameter(oCustomerHeaderSlug);

              // Header Token

              var oCustomerHeaderToken = new sap.m.UploadCollectionParameter({

                  name: "x-csrf-token",

                  value: this._oSecurityToken

              });

              this._oAttachments.addHeaderParameter(oCustomerHeaderToken);

          },

          onAttachmentDeleted: function(oEvent) {

              var sDeletePath = oEvent.getParameter("item").getBindingContext().sPath;

              // logic to implement remove attachment

              //i.e use this._oModel.remove() function by passing above path.

          },

          onAttachmentRenamed: function(oEvent) {

              // do as per need

          },

          onAttachmentSizeExceeded: function() {

              // do as per need

          },

          onAttachmentTypeMissmatched: function() {

              // can be shown message for mismatch

          },

          onAttachmentUploadComplete: function(oEvent) {

              // just refresh the attachment with updated data

              var oItemsBinding = this._oAttachments.getBinding("items");

              oItemsBinding.refresh();

          }

      Thats all !! 🙂

         

      http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/front-end/blog/2016/03/29/using-the-uploadcollection-to-uploaddownload-archivelink-files-via-gateway

      Regards,

      Akhilesh

      Author's profile photo harish vyas
      harish vyas

      Hello Akhilesh,

       

      I tried this approach but not able to make UploadCollection work.

      I have posted a question on SDN, refer to link: LINK

      Can you provide some insight if possible.

       

      Regards,

      Harish

      Author's profile photo Sagar Patil
      Sagar Patil

      Hi Faiza,

      I am able to upload multiple files using file upload collection. I am using FileReader java script object inside onChange() event of uploadCollection control ot get the file details.

      Regards,

      Sagar M Patil

      Author's profile photo PEEYUSH RANJAN
      PEEYUSH RANJAN

      Hello Sagar,

       

      Could you please kindly provide some spinet code for upload the multiple file as you have already did.

       

      Thanks a lot in advance .

      Peeyush

      Author's profile photo Sharma Chetanya
      Sharma Chetanya

      Hi Jenish,

      Brilliant blog ..

      Could you please share your code base via JSBin or else?

      One question, why did you used this approach of overriding the existing method? FileUploader.upload()? Just wish to know the reason behind the need of extension, what was your use case? where did you got struck?

      Please explain and share the code.

      Thanks

      Chet

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Jenish sir,

       

      I am new to SAPUI5 i dont know how to use sap netweaver gateway image  services in sapui5.I tried below code in single html page using eclipse but i am getting some errors please correct it revert back to me

       

      <!DOCTYPE HTML>
      <html>
      <head>
      <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
      <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;charset=UTF-8'/>

      <script src="resources/sap-ui-core.js"
      id="sap-ui-bootstrap"
      data-sap-ui-libs="sap.m, sap.ui.unified"
      data-sap-ui-theme="sap_bluecrystal">
      </script>
      <!-- only load the mobile lib "sap.m" and the "sap_bluecrystal" theme -->

      <script>
      sap.ui.localResources("csrf_image");
      var app = new sap.m.App({initialPage:"idApp1"});
      var page = sap.ui.view({id:"idApp1", viewName:"csrf_image.App", type:sap.ui.core.mvc.ViewType.JS});
      app.addPage(page);
      app.placeAt("content");
      </script>

      <script>

      jQuery.sap.declare("com.ODataFileUploader.Component");

      jQuery.sap.require("sap.ui.unified.FileUploader");

      sap.ui.unified.FileUploader.extend("com.ODataFileUploader.Component", {

      metadata : {

      properties : {

      "modelName" : "string",

      "slug" : "string",

      "csrf" : "string"

      }

      },

      upload : function() {

      var file = jQuery.sap.domById(this.getId() + "-fu").files[0];

      try {

      if (file) {

      this._bUploading = true;

      var that = this;

      var _handleSuccess = function(data, textStatus, jqXHR){

      that.fireUploadComplete({"response": "Success: File uploaded to entity" });

      that._bUploading = false;

      };// end

      var _handleError = function(data){

      var errorMsg = '';

      if (data.responseText[1]){

      errorMsg = /<message>(.*?)<\/message>/.exec(data.responseText)[1];

      }else{

      errorMsg = 'Something bad happened';

      }

      that.fireUploadComplete({"response": "Error: " + errorMsg});

      that._bUploading = false;

      }; // end of handleerror

      var oHeaders = {

      "x-csrf-token": this.mProperties.csrf,

      "slug": this.mProperties.slug,

      "X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",

      "Content-Type": file.type,

      "DataServiceVersion": "2.0",

      "Accept" : "text/plain, */*"

      };

      jQuery.ajax({

      type: 'POST',

      url: this.getUploadUrl(),

      headers: oHeaders,

      cache: false,

      contentType: file.type,

      dataType: "text",

      processData: false,

      data: file,

      success: _handleSuccess,

      error: _handleError

      });

      jQuery.sap.log.info("File uploading to" + this.getUploadUrl());

      } // end of if file

      } catch(oException) {

      jQuery.sap.log.error("File upload failed:\n" + oException.message);

      }

      },

      renderer : {

      }

      });
      //end of upload function
      //csrf token fetch

      var oFileUploader = new sap.ui.unified.FileUploader({
      id : "file1",
      src:"{Pfilename}",
      uploadUrl:"upload/",

      });

      var url1 = "sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZPROJECT_SHOPPING_CART_SRV";

      var csrfToken = "";

      var aData = jQuery.ajax({

      url : url1,

      headers: { "X-CSRF-Token":"Fetch" ,

      "X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",

      "DataServiceVersion": "2.0" },

      type: "GET",

      contentType : "application/json",

      dataType : 'json',

      success : function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {

      csrfToken = jqXHR.getResponseHeader('x-csrf-token');

      oFileUploader1.setCsrf(csrfToken);

      oFileUploader1.setSlug("200000664_MOB15");

      oFileUploader1.setUploadUrl(getUrl("sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZPROJECT_SHOPPING_CART_SRV/ProductimageSet"));

      oFileUploader1.upload();

      },

      error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {

      }

      });

      var btnSubmit = new sap.m.Button("file2",{
      text:'Trigger Upload',
      press:function() {

      var url1 = getUrl("/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZPROJECT_SHOPPING_CART_SRV/");

      var csrfToken = "";

      var aData = jQuery.ajax({
      url : url1,

      headers: { "X-CSRF-Token":"Fetch" ,
      "X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",
      "Content-Type": "image/jpeg",
      "DataServiceVersion": "2.0" },

      type: "GET",
      //jsonpCallback : ‘getJSON’,
      contentType : "application/json",
      dataType : 'json',

      //data : “”,
      success : function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
      csrfToken = jqXHR.getResponseHeader('x-csrf-token');

      oFileUploader1.setCsrf(csrfToken);
      oFileUploader1.setSlug("2000006");

      oFileUploader1.setUploadUrl(getUrl("/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZPROJECT_SHOPPING_CART_SRV/ProductimageSet"));

      oFileUploader1.upload();

      },
      error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {

      }

      });

      }
      });

      oFileUploader.placeAt("content");
      btnSubmit.placeAt("content");

      </script>

      </head>
      <body class="sapUiBody" role="application">
      <div id="content"></div>
      </body>
      </html>

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      ​Hi Jenish Prabhu

      Actually i am trying to write a logic to upload a xlsx file, and the bind the xlsx data into a table in Sap UI5 Side.

      is it possible to do