Re: Solution for finding images in a WAR file

[Johan Åbrandt]

This "solution" may or may not work in existing servers, but it may also 
break. The problem is that ServletContext->getRealPath() is allowed to 
return null, for example if the content is served from a WAR.

Rakesh Patel wrote:
Hi,
I have found a solution that I think works (have not got access to a Unix 
environment to confirm this) but I did not hard-code any window/unix specific 
paths.
Here's a snippet of code I used:
ServletContext scntxt = this.getServletContext();
String pathToFile = scntxt.getRealPath("/WEB-INF"); // or whatever relative to 
web app root eg /images
String imagePath = "file:" + pathToFile;
org.apache.fop.configuration.Configuration.put("baseDir",imagePath);
as you can see, all my images are in web_app_root/WEB-INF.
The corresponding xml data file looks like this:
<HTRelitiveRef HTRRKey="2" HTRRType="Picture" HTRRID="/centurion.jpg" HTRRLink="" 
HTRRVisible="F">centurion</HTRelitiveRef>
I hope this saves others the problem of finding the solution across many posts!
Thanks
Rakesh
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