Milt-
Thanks for pointing that out. When you look at something a zillion times, the
obvious seems to be so difficult to see! It's always helpful to have another
pair of eyes.
Thanks again,
Paolo
Milt Epstein wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Paolo Barolat-Romana wrote:
>
> >
> > I must be doing something wrong here. In my code, I have the following
> > line:
> >
> > ServletContext servletContext = getServletConfig().getServletContext();
> >
> > String fileName = (String) servletContext.getAttribute("filename");
> >
> > Now, this should return a string which I've setup in web.xml. Here is
> > the relevant part of web.xml:
> >
> > <web-app>
> > <context-param>
> > <param-name>filename</param-name>
> > <param-value>c:\temp\file.txt</param-value>
> > </context-param>
> > .....
> >
> > But instead, this code is returning null. Has this method not been
> > implemented?
>
> init parameters and attributes are different things. Things set up as
> context-param's in web.xml are available via the ServletContext
> getInitParameter() (and getInitParameterNames()) method --
> getAttribute() is for attributes.
>
> The odd thing is that in the subject line of your note you mention
> getInitParameter() (even though you indicate above that you're using
> getAttribute()).
>
> Milt Epstein
> Research Programmer
> Software/Systems Development Group
> Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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