just curious...where would a servlet default to opening a file without an
absolute path....ie
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(blah.db));
StreamTokenizer inStream = new StreamTokenizer(in);
I am having trouble with those lines of code. It is throwing
exceptions...Any ideas...
-g-
At 02:26 PM 4/25/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> However, I am not sure
>>if servlets can open up text files on the local server, and if this is
>>feasible.
>
>Sure it's possible and feasible. We just finished a prototype as a prelude
>to using a relational database. We used a simple random access file, opened
>in the init method, saved in a global variable, accessed in the doPost
>method (see below). Simple, even primitive, but it works. Our biggest
>problem was figuring out what directory on our hosted site our servlet was
>expecting to find the file.
>
>Regards,
>Steve Mann
>
># # #
>
>// in init
>
> gDataFile = new RandomAccessFile ( gDataFileName, "r" );
>
>// In doPost
>
> gDataFile.seek ( 0 );
> long filePtr = 0;
> while ( filePtr < gDataFile.length ()) {
> line = gDataFile.readLine ();
> // do something.....
> filePtr = gDataFile.getFilePointer ();
> }
>
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