But how do i get a reference to the public folder form the servlet? getContextPath was not working.
On Sep 28, 12:22 pm, "Ian Bambury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everything in the public folder is just put in the htdocs (or whatever). > > So if you want to use public/temppng/ then <img src="/temppng/mygraph.png/" > /> > > Ian > > http://examples.roughian.com > > 2008/9/28 Ned Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > I'm not to familiar with the "fitting content type", you maybe show me > > a clip of sample code? Does this then return the file as a bytestream > > or something? Also, because this new servlet I will have made will > > only be reference with some servlet mapping in the web.xml file, will > > the still work in hosted mode? > > > As for using the RPC servlet, I don't see how doGet solves my > > problem. How is it fundamentally different form the doPost method > > used the the RPC? And I what I need to know is even if i did use > > either of these methods, on a high level, how does the file get passed > > from the server to the client? I would feel comfortable diving right > > into either these without at least having a vague understanding of > > what was happening. > > > On Sep 27, 5:10 pm, Lothar Kimmeringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ned Racine schrieb: > > > > > I also want to graph the > > > > results, and my original intention was to just save a .png of the > > > > graph in the public folder, but this is where I get hung up. I cannot > > > > get a reference to the public folder path, which I need for the client > > > > to see the file. > > > > Another way would be to call a servlet that is returning the picture > > > with fitting content-type. The servlet can be placed at the same > > > place where you RPC-servlet resides (adding it to the web.xml and > > > the GWT.xml-file for hosted mode). > > > > You can also implement it in the RPC-servlet by implementing > > > doGet (the RPC-mechanism works with POST) reducing the number > > > of servlets needed for your application. > > > > > I have done the exact same thing using Apache Struts > > > > before, but now that I'm using GWT I can't figure this out. Ideally I > > > > could find a solution where this would work in both web and hosted > > > > mode, but web mode would be the more important of the two obviously. > > > > The technique I described works in both modes and I use it here > > > for the download of SQL-results as CSV-files and other stuff. > > > > Regards, Lothar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
