Hello André,
André Warnier wrote
>
> - you need to tell your webapp where the uploaded files should be
> stored/retrieved
> - you cannot do it via an "alias" under Tomcat < v7
>
Exactly.
André Warnier wrote
>
> - so instead of an alias, do it via a property in a properties file, which
> your webapp would read. This is (almost) a "pure java" solution, which
> would work under any servlet container of any version.
>
I wish I knew how to do that and yes, I'm interested in an (almost) "pure
Java" solution.
May I precise what I did and what already works with Tomcat7:
1) When a user uploads a file to the server running Tomcat, I store the
file, for example, in a directory: "/home/d1/"
2) In a JSP, this user can view the list of the "n" files he uploaded:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
< a href="/an_alias_1/file_1.txt"> file_1.txt < /a>
...
< a href="/an_alias_1/file_n.txt"> file_n.txt < /a>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3) In Tomcat7, I used the "aliases" properties of the "Context" element in
"META-INF/context.xml" to ("magically" to me :/), let Tomcat map these
addresses:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/an_alias_1/file_1.txt
...
/an_alias_1/file_n.txt
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
to their real addresses on the filesystem:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/home/d1/file_1.txt
...
/home/d1/file_n.txt
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
so that the user could click on one of these links and retrieve/view the
corresponding resource.
Of course, I read carefully what you wrote, it looks like I'm really missing
something important because I have absolutely no idea how to "implement" the
same mechanism using a properties file as you suggest...
Would you be so very kind to to explain a bit more?
Thank you and best regards.
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