Is your XML file static? If it does, you cam place the xml file in your
class path and use my other posted solution to have access to its
InputStream.
If you dont like to place it in classpath, you can create a Singleton
wrapper around your XML and load it up during application startup, via
Struts plugin or a servlet.
-Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 9:31 PM
Subject: RE: application.getRealPath("/") from ActionForm???
> 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
> > >
> > >
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