Thank you all for helpful replies.
I went around using the getRealPath(...) method of ServletContext
successfully.
Originally when I tried this out, null was returned as a result of the above
method execution.
The problem was that I deployed my Struts application in an archived format
MyApp.war on a JBoss server.
I'm not an JBoss expert, but it seemed that my application was running from
within the war archive and the getRealPath(...) method doesn't like that
hence returns null.
I just extracted my war file to MyApp.war directory and that sorted the
problem out.
--Alen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Claire Suttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] get abs path to my web application root context
If you want to get the absolute path from within a Form or Action class,
use:
ServletContext serv = servlet.getServletContext();
String realPath = serv.getRealPath(filepath);
filepath is the relative path from the root i.e. /images/items/path or
/images/items/path/filename.gif
You have inplicit access to servlet, so using these two lines and importing
javax.servlet.ServletContext should be all you need to do.
Claire
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Emerson Cargnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Servlet method :
> getServletContext().getRealPath("/")
> request has getRealPath, but is depracated.
>
> Don't know how to get this inside an action (besides using the
> depracated method).maybe getting it at init servlet method and saving it
> under application context. Any other ideas...
>
>
> Alen Ribic wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > This may be a bit of a silly and of topic question but this is driving
me up
> > the wall. ;)
> > I would like to save uploaded files to my application's
> > %app_root%/images/items/ path.
> > How do I get the absolute path to my web application's root directory?
> > e.g. "c:/tomcat/webapps/myapp_root/"
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --Alen
> >
> >
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