My problem seems to be that the Servlet API works relative the the
Servlets Context and not the actuall servlet. So even getResource /
getResourceAsStream resolve relative to the Servlet Context Root and not
the Servlet/JSP
i.e.
application.getResource("") returns resources relative to the Context root.
Wouldn't it be better to have:
application.getResource("/") resolve to the subcontext/directory of the
Servlet Context Root
application.getResource(".") or application.getResource("") resolve to
the subcontext/directory of the Servlet/JSP
application.getResource("..") resolve to the parent subcontext/directory
of the Servlet/JSP
This would seem logical and much more powerfull, would it not?
-Mark Diggory
Shapira, Yoav wrote:
>Hi,
>I believe that if you access it via a mapping, that's how you will see
>its location. So if you go to the real location in the browser, i.e.
>/Jaxp/JSPTransformExample.jsp, you will get that location instead of the
>mapped one.
>
>In general, you are not guaranteed to have access to the server's
>mappings, much less the ability to introspect them as you would like in
>this use case.
>
>A better approach may be to use getResource() and/or
>getResourceAsStream(), as that would give you the resource and would
>work in a WAR, which the getRealPath() approach won't.
>
>Yoav Shapira
>Millennium ChemInformatics
>
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark R. Diggory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:53 AM
>>To: Tomcat Users List
>>Subject: Is this a Bug in request.getServletPath() ?
>>
>>I'm trying to get a file in the filesystem relative to the location of
>>
>>
>a
>
>
>>JSP Page. At first Blush the following would seem appropriate:
>>
>><%
>>String jsp_location =
>>
>>
>application.getRealPath(request.getServletPath());
>
>
>>String relative =
>>
>>
>jsp_location.substring(0,jsp_location.lastIndexOf("/"));
>
>
>>... get the resource using this path ...
>>
>>%>
>>
>>however, when one uses a servlet mapping on a JSP Page like below.
>>
>><servlet>
>> <servlet-name>JSPTestMap</servlet-name>
>> <jsp-file>/Jaxp/JSPTransformExample.jsp</jsp-file>
>></servlet>
>><servlet-mapping>
>> <servlet-name>JSPTestMap</servlet-name>
>> <url-pattern>/Jaxp/MapExample.jsp</url-pattern>
>></servlet-mapping>
>>
>>request.getServletPath() returns
>>
>><url-pattern>/Jaxp/MapExample.jsp</url-pattern>
>>
>>and not
>>
>><jsp-file>/Jaxp/JSPTransformExample.jsp</jsp-file>
>>
>>is there any way I can get hold of the original real location of the
>>
>>
>JSP
>
>
>>Page I'm working in and have it also work with servlet-mappings?
>>
>>-Mark Diggory
>>
>>
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