Hi David,
Welcome to Pivot! Hopefully we can help you get some useful work
done with it....
So, the BXMLSerializer class isn't doing anything particularly
fancy to load a file. It will be calling (under the covers) the
HelloBXML.class.getResource("xml/hello.bxml"...), which is just standard
Java resource stuff. If you are running out of a .jar file, then the
.bxml file would need to be in the .jar where the HelloBXML.class file
is and accessible from the com/dwh/pivot/tutorial/xml path. The code in
our application has lots of BXML resources located in various
directories (within the .jar file), all underneath the main class
location, so yes, it is definitely possible. You just need to follow
the standard rules for locating Java resources.
That first error you show ("could not find resources
"/xml/hello.bxml") (if that is exactly the message) would have to have
come from using a path of "/xml/hello.bxml", which is probably not what
you want. The code you're showing (with the path of "xml/hello.bxml")
should work if the file is placed (as I said) in the
com/dwh/pivot/tutorials/xml directory.
Bottom line, this isn't anything unique to Pivot -- we just use the
class' package location as a starting point for locating the resource
using the standard Java mechanisms.
HTH,
~Roger Whitcomb
On 9/27/13 6:57 PM, David Heard wrote:
Hello All,
I am new to apache-pivot although I do work with Spring MVC & Hibernate.
Before I pose this question I did go through the archive, from Jan.
2011 to current and I did not see an answer, and I did try
Stackoverflow as well. What I would like to do is move the .bxml files
to a separate directory - for example: /xml in the project.
eclipse is the IDE (Keppler) and the plugin is installed.
To make this shorter I'll use the excellent example of HelloBXML and
just the relevant snippet of code;
@Overridepublicvoidstartup(Displaydisplay,Map<String,String>arg1)throwsException{
BXMLSerializerbmxlSerializer =newBXMLSerializer();
window
=(Window)bmxlSerializer.readObject(HelloBXML.class,"xml/hello.bxml");
window.open(display);
}
I can get hello.bxml to load if I include it in the classpath as
com.dwh.pivot.tutorial.xml or by itself as hello.bxml in
com.dwh.pivot.tutorial where HelloBXML.java resides.
When I tried creating the xml directory and calling hello.bxml from it
I got the error: " I get an java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: could
not find resource "/xml/hello.bxml". "
I also tried using window
=(Window)bmxlSerializer.readObject(getClass().getResource("xml/hello.bxml"));
and I get a different error, "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
location is null."
After a little thought, I tried creating a separate package named xml
and added hello.bxml to it. I received the same location is null error.
What I would like to know is if it is possible to separate the files
like that using pivot? My reasoning is I am trying to isolate the gui
portions from the data or model. Maybe I am way out in left field and
over thinking it.
Thank you for taking time to look at this, if I am off base let me
know :) I won't take offense. If I missed something somewhere point me
at it and smack my hand.
Peace,
-Dave
