yes, the usecases for this are somewhat rare but they do come up. Most of
the time it relates to bundles that supply files to non-OSGi aware
systems. For example:
- a bundle that supplies an executable that is in turn exec()'d by the
bundle. The executalbe must be directly in the filesystem since the OS
does not know how to read JARs. Native headers don't do it for you since
you actually need the real path fo the executable in the file system
- a bundle that supplies content to a browser. A help or doc system for
exampe. Again, the browser does not know how to look into JARs so the
content must be directly in the filesystem and you need a file: url to
pass to the browser
We've seen both of these (and more) in Eclipse and so added the
FileLocator.toFileURL() helper method Erik mentioned. Here is the
Javadoc
/**
* Converts a URL that uses a user-defined protocol into a URL
that uses the file
* protocol. The contents of the URL may be extracted into a cache
on the file-system
* in order to get a file URL.
* <p>
* If the protocol for the given URL is not recognized by this
converter, the original
* URL is returned as-is.
* </p>
* @param url the original URL
* @return the converted file URL or the original URL passed in if
it is
* not recognized by this converter
* @throws IOException if an error occurs during the conversion
*/
In practice this takes things that you would get back from getResource or
getEntry and converts them to file:. In the case of a directory based
bundle, the file is likely already directly in the filesystem so its file:
url is returned. In the case of a JAR'd bundle, the file (or directory)
is extracted to a cache and that location returned.
Jeff
"Richard S. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
09/13/2006 07:52 PM
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Re: OSGi URL to file
No, there is no standard way, nor any equivalent method in Felix.
This is something you could construct for Felix, perhaps, but it seems
like bad form since the whole point of getResource() is to eliminate the
dependencies on file locations.
And what happens if the resource is in a JAR file, then it will never be
a file: resource?
You might be trying to do something and this is the only way to do it,
but it would certainly be better if there was another way.
-> richard
Erik Bengtson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to convert the URL given by
> URL url =
>
Bundle.loadClass('something').getClassLoader().getResource('anotherthing');
>
> Using equinox I get "bundleresource://" protocol, so I want to convert
to
> file://.
>
> To convert I use:
>
> URL fileURL = org.eclipse.core.runtime.FileLocator.toFileURL(url);
>
> Is there an Felix equivalent or in the OSGI standard?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik Bengtson
>
>
> PS:
> Richard,
>
> thanks for the previous answer regarding best pratices on dependencies.
>
