Re: Progmatically retriving files in WEB-INF

[Bo Xu]

Christopher Kirk wrote:

> [...]
> InputStream inputStream
> = getServletConfig().getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("me.txt");
>
> if (inputStream == null) {
>   System.out.println("NULL");
> } else {
>  System.out.println("NOT NULL");
> }
>   }
> }
>
> However, inputStream is always null!   Am I approaching this the wrong way,
> or is this a bug in Tomcat?  (I have searched the bug database and failed to
> find anything so I suspect my understanding of the Servlet spec is faulty).
>
> I thought that the ServletContext object was used to access the WEB-INF
> directory.. ?
> [...]

Hi :-)  I suggest you try the following:  the "path" is from "myapp/" ,
not from "myapp/WEB-INF/"


- InputStream is = getServletContext().
 getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/me.txt");

or

- InputStream is = getServletConfig().getServletContext().
 getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/me.txt");



Bo
June 29, 2001

Antw: Progmatically retriving files in WEB-INF(Abwesenheitsnotiz)

[Petra Hora]

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Progmatically retriving files in WEB-INF

[Christopher Kirk]

Hopefully somebody could point out where I am going wrong...


I am using WAR deployment under Tomcat3.2.1 on a WinNT4 box.

I have placed a file (me.txt) in the WEB-INF directory, and have written the
following servlet which tries to read the file.


public class MercuryServlet extends HttpServlet{
  public void init() throws ServletException {

InputStream inputStream
= getServletConfig().getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("me.txt");

if (inputStream == null) {
  System.out.println("NULL");
} else {
 System.out.println("NOT NULL");
}
  }
}


However, inputStream is always null!   Am I approaching this the wrong way,
or is this a bug in Tomcat?  (I have searched the bug database and failed to
find anything so I suspect my understanding of the Servlet spec is faulty).

I thought that the ServletContext object was used to access the WEB-INF
directory.. ?


Thanx in advance,

- Chris.


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