Hirdesh,
I tried your code. It works fine except it does not read the file Note.txt - just ignores this file. Also the path returned is c:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3\webapps\Root\Note.txt (Root instead of examples).
I am just stuck now.
Thanks
Ken
"); > out.println("path is ------> "+ path); > out.println("
Hello You, ...... "); > out.println( sbuf +"
" ); > out.println(""); > out.println(""); > out.close(); > > } >} > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ >I got this output: > >Hello World >path is ------> D:\Tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3\webapps\examples\Note.txt >HelloYou, ...... ---------------------- Hi This is Hirdesh Mishra >Thanks ---------------------- > > >However my file contents were : > >---------------------- >Hi >This is Hirdesh Mishra >Thanks >---------------------- > >MY QUESTION IS : why did my file appeared as one line. Where did newline >characters present in my NOte.txt file went? > > > > > >Thanks, >Hirdesh Mishra > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet >API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >Richard Yee >Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 3:27 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: servlet to read a file > > >Ken, >I was able to get the servlet code you sent to read a file. I had to make >a few changes to your code b/c the parameter to getRealPath is wrong. The >path should be specified relative to the root directory of the web app that >your servlet is running in. In your case, it seems that you are running it >in the 'examples' web app'. Therefore, the path is "/Note.txt". > >There are a few other things I noticed. >1) You declare some variables from the Swing classes in your servlet. You >can't use these in a servlet. You could use them in an applet that is >displayed from a servlet, but then the Swing elements would be part of the >applet code and not the servlet code. >2) Some of your variables are class variables and not method >variables. You need to be very careful about using class variables in a >servlet. Most of the time you should use variables that are local to your >methods. You are running the risk of running into thread safety problems >when you use class variables. Basically, you might have multiple requests >all accessing the same variables which can give you unexpected results. >3) The html that your servlet outputs is incorrect. There are multiple > tags and multiple tags. > >At 11:59 AM 10/7/01 -0400, you wrote: > >import java.io.*; > >import java.util.Enumeration; > >import java.awt.*; > >import javax.servlet.*; > >import javax.servlet.http.*; > >import java.awt.event.*; > >import javax.swing.*; > >/** > >* This is a simple example of an HTTP Servlet that > >* uses the HttpSession > >* class > >* > >* Note that in order to gaurentee that session > > * response headers are > >* set correctly, the session must be retrieved before > > * any output is > >* sent to the client. > >*/ > >public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet { > > > > JTextArea theTextArea = new JTextArea(20, 64); > > JButton theReadButton = new JButton("Read"); > > String filename; > > > > public void doGet (HttpServletRequest req, > > HttpServletResponse res) > > throws ServletException, IOException > > { > > String path = > > >getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRealPath("./webapps/examples/Note. >txt"); > > > > System.out.println(path); > > StringBuffer sbuf = new StringBuffer(); > > try { > > BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (new FileReader(path)); > > while(true) > > { > > String s = br.readLine(); > > if (s == null) > > { > > break; > > } > > sbuf.append(s); > > sbuf.append("\n"); > > } > > } > > catch (Exception e) { > > } > > res.setContentType("text/html"); > > // then write the data of the response > > PrintWriter out = res.getWriter(); > > out.println(""); > > out.println(""); > > out.println(""); > > out.println("Hello World"); > > out.println(""); > > out.println(path); > > out.println(""); > > out.println(""); > > out.println("HelloYou, "); > > out.println("" + sbuf + ""); > > out.close(); > > > > } > >} > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > >Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html >Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html >LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > >Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html >Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html >LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html >
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