My guess about the null control serverlet, is because struts may not init
the form's control servlet after the form constructor completes.
If you can take a look at my answer to "Setting external JNDI properties",
you can put your file in classpath and load it.
BTW, you might have a performance problem loading the file for every
constructor of your action object. You might want to load your file at
startup and access it thru a singleton.
Good luck.
-Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:53 PM
Subject: RE: application.getRealPath("/") from ActionForm???
> ActionServlet as = this.getServlet();
>
> This is returning null. What is the proper way to get a reference to the
> controller servlet from and Action from?
>
> Jason Long - CEO and Chief Software Engineer
> Supernova Software - supernovasoftware.com
> BS Physics, MS Chemical Engineering
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 9:49 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: application.getRealPath("/") from ActionForm???
>
>
> Actually I am calling a funtion that loads values into the form in the
> object. This load method needs to find a relative path. I cannot seem to
> get a reference to the controller servlet or any other way to get the path
> to my WEB-INF.
>
> public final class ManagerForm extends ActionForm {
> public ManagerForm() throws Exception {
> this.load();
> }
> ...
> ....
> ...
> }
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 8:25 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: application.getRealPath("/") from ActionForm???
>
>
> If you deploy your app as a WAR file, then it is the correct result since
> there is no real directory to return
>
> But you can use this code
>
> InputStream is =
> servlet.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(pathName);
>
> where pathName is the context path to your file in the WAR archive. (ie
> /WEB-INF/yourFileName.txt)
>
> Good luck.
>
> -Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 1:07 PM
> Subject: application.getRealPath("/") from ActionForm???
>
>
> > When deploying my Struts application I ran in to a small problem.
> > I had hard coded the path to an xml file used to load values into my
form.
> > I need to get a relative path. I tried the following, but got a null
> > pointer.
> >
> > ActionServlet as = this.getServlet();
> > ServletContext application = as.getServletConfig().getServletContext();
> > String basePath = application.getRealPath("/");
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Jason Long - CEO and Chief Software Engineer
> > Supernova Software - supernovasoftware.com
> > BS Physics, MS Chemical Engineering
> >
> >
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