Note that getRealPath("/WEB-INF/...") is allowed to fail (under the spec).
I know for a fact that in several containers, if your deploy as a WAR file,
it will indeed fail.Here are two alternatives that will always work to access files in /WEB-INF:
1)
String path = "/WEB-INF/myfile.ext";
InputStream istream = servletContext.getResourceAsStream(path);2)
String path = "/WEB-INF/myfile.ext";
URL url = servletContext.getResource(path);
URLConnection uconn = url.openConnection();
InputStream istream = uconn.getInputStream();What remains to solve your problem is to refactor your code to accept an InputStream rather than a File. It appears that File is used to length()
can be called on it so the byte array can be properly allocated.
If the resource is truly a file, it appears the istream.available() will
do that job for you (although I have not tested this).
Thank you...
I'll give it a try...
Cheers...
Dave
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try
request.getSession(false).getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/..." ))
or, in an action you could do
getServlet().getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/...");
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