I'm developing an application for sending bulk emails from multiple senders in a continuous loop. Sender email-ID's are stored in a csv file and I am reading that in ReadFile class and calling it in servlet class where I am also calling an email utility class which have email sending functions.
ReadFile.java
CsvReader senders;
public List<String> read(){
ArrayList<String> al=new ArrayList<String>();
try {
senders = new CsvReader("C:/Users/dc/Documents/Senderlist.csv");
senders.readHeaders();
while (senders.readRecord()) {
String SenderID = senders.get("SenderID");
// perform program logic here
System.out.println("Sender ID is: "+SenderID );
al.add(SenderID);
}
senders.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return al;
}
Servlet.java:
public class MailController extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private String ExchangeIP;
private String port;
ReadFile rf;
/**
* @throws IOException
* @see HttpServlet#HttpServlet()
*/
public MailController() throws IOException {
rf=new ReadFile();
}
public void init() {
// reads SMTP server setting from web.xml file
ServletContext context = getServletContext();
ExchangeIP = context.getInitParameter("ExchangeIP");
port = context.getInitParameter("port");
}
/**
* @see HttpServlet#doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
*/
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
doPost(request, response);
}
/**
* @see HttpServlet#doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
*/
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
// read from field
List<File> uploadedFiles= saveUploadedFiles(request);
String sender=request.getParameter("sender");// reading from the form page
String recipient=request.getParameter("recipient");
String subject=request.getParameter("subject");
String content=request.getParameter("content");
String resultMessage = ""; //null
try {
List sendersInput = rf.read();
// print all the elements in the list
Iterator itr = sendersInput.iterator();
while(itr.hasNext()) {
EmailUtility.sendEmail(ExchangeIP, port, itr.next(), recipient, subject, content, uploadedFiles);
resultMessage = "The e-mail has been sent successfully";
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
resultMessage = "There were an error: " + ex.getMessage();
} finally {
request.setAttribute("Message", resultMessage);
getServletContext()
.getRequestDispatcher("/Result.jsp")
.forward(request, response);
}
}
}
While running this I am getting an error:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.csvreader.CsvReader
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1702)
at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1547)
at com.project.util.ReadFile.read(ReadFile.java:20)
at com.project.controller.MailController.doPost(MailController.java:99)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
How to resolve this error.