This file is and xml file that contain that data that the form needs to be filled with. It is in my WEB-INF/data folder. The problem is that I cannot find a way to tell my form where to load this data from. I need need to access to the ServletContext so I can get the real path of the web application. Some has to know how to do this easily.
Jason Long - CEO and Chief Software Engineer Supernova Software - supernovasoftware.com BS Physics, MS Chemical Engineering -----Original Message----- From: Dan Tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 10:29 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: application.getRealPath("/") from ActionForm??? 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]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]