Al, do you have any idea?
-Matej
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Gianni Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a bit confused about ContextImage; according to the javadocs the image
> path "will be prefixed such that the image is relative to the context root".
>
> In my markup I've got:
> <img wicket:id="logo" src="mylogo.gif" />
>
> Then I add the Context image to my WebPage:
> add(new ContextImage("logo", "images/logos/mylogo.gif"));
>
> ... and I end up with:
> <img src="../images/logos/mylogo.gif" />
>
> My application is deployed with a context root of /myapp and this doesn't
> work, it will only work if the application is deployed with a context root
> of /. I've checked the source which ContextImage uses to get the context
> root and in org.apache.wicket.Request it says:
>
> /**
> * Gets a prefix to make this relative to the context root.
> * <p>
> * For example, if your context root is http://server.com/myApp/ and the
> request is for
> * /myApp/mountedPage/, then the prefix returned might be "../../".
> * <p>
> * For a particular technology, this might return either an absolute prefix
> or a relative one.
> *
> * @return Prefix relative to this request required to back up to context
> root.
> */
> public abstract String getRelativePathPrefixToContextRoot();
>
> To me this just seems plain wrong, here it clearly states that the context
> root is "http://server.com/myApp/"; but the example prefix of "../../"
> relative to "/myApp/mountedPage/" does not take you to the context root of
> /myApp/ but to /.
>
> This is very confusing as I've always considered the context root of a java
> web application to to be the path upon which it is deployed on the
> application server, whether that be /, /myApp or /apps/myApp and in the
> above case I do not end up with an image path relative to the context root.
> Without hard-coding the name of my context root in the image path (bad idea
> for portability) how can I reference static images stored in an images
> directory under the context root?
>
> Should I file this as a bug or am I missing something?
> Thanks
> Gianni
>
>
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