Accessing Server File with Servlets

[Chase Preuninger]

I have a bunch of javascript files contained in an xyz.war file on my
JBoss server. I need a way using servlets (not JSP) to load them into
memory using InputStreams, process them and then send them back out to
the client's web browser. My problem is I can't figure out how to
access these files through a servlet I also want to keep it as dynamic
as possible since I don't know where this code may end up.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I have a bunch of javascript files contained in an xyz.war file on my
JBoss server. I need a way using servlets (not JSP) to load them into
memory using InputStreams, process them and then send them back out to
the client's web browser. My problem is I can't figure out how to
access these files through a servlet I also want to keep it as dynamic
as possible since I don't know where this code may end up.

If they are in WEB-INF/classes or WEB-INF/lib then you can use
ClassLoader getResourceAsStream to read them.

If not then you can try open it as a file via getServletContext
getRealPath.

Arne

 

[Chase Preuninger]

If they are in WEB-INF/classes or WEB-INF/lib then you can use
ClassLoader getResourceAsStream to read them.

If not then you can try open it as a file via getServletContext
getRealPath.

Arne

This is the path returned by the getRealPath("") call.

C:\Program Files\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\.\tmp\deploy
\tmp3242525634535.war\

Can't be found and where did the "." come from.

 

[Arved Sandstrom]

This is the path returned by the getRealPath("") call.

C:\Program Files\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\.\tmp\deploy
\tmp3242525634535.war\

Can't be found and where did the "." come from.

A handy way of returning the Javascript file is to include it using a
request dispatcher...this eliminates the InputStream and OutputStream
mechanics.

AHS

 

[Chase Preuninger]

A handy way of returning the Javascript file is to include it using a
request dispatcher...this eliminates the InputStream and OutputStream
mechanics.

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Yet again how do I do that and still what does the "." mean?

 

[Arved Sandstrom]

Yet again how do I do that and still what does the "." mean?

You can get a request dispatcher directly from the ServletContext,
passing in the String path.

RequestDispatcher getRequestDispatcher(String path)

From the Javadoc, the path should start with "/", and it's with
reference to the _current_ context root.

I wouldn't worry overmuch about the "." in the returned path. The
"C:\Program Files\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default" is a hardwired path for
the JBoss server you chose (the default configuration); the subpath
starting with "." is a generated relative path (the ".\" could have been
left off but no harm done that it's there.) JBoss is simply adding the two.

AHS

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

This is the path returned by the getRealPath("") call.

C:\Program Files\jboss-4.2.0.GA\server\default\.\tmp\deploy
\tmp3242525634535.war\

Can't be found and where did the "." come from.

If your JS files are inside the war then they should be
unpacked in some dir (and the above seems correct if the JS
files are indeed in the root of the war).

Arne