Have you given a thought on my Singleton solution? -Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 9:48 PM Subject: RE: application.getRealPath("/") from ActionForm???
> It is not static. I need it to load when ActionForm is loaded. Is there no > way to load form values from an external source? > > 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 11:42 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: application.getRealPath("/") from ActionForm??? > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]