Thom Park at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hello,
>
> I have a requirement where i need to make multiple passes over a resource
> stream
> obtained via ServletContext.getResourceAsStream().
>
> My problem is that as follows:
>
> InputStream is = sc.getResourceAsStream("/my_resource_name");
>
> .... do 1st processing pass
>
> is.close();
>
> is = sc.getResourceAsStream("/my_resource_name");
>
> ... do second processing pass...
>
> The problem is that, as far as the StandardClassLoader is concerned, the
> cached copy of the input stream is still good (and it isn't I just closed
> it)
> and I get the original (now bad) input stream returned.
>
>
> Is there anyway to force tomcat to reload the resource object (without
> unloading the context).
> as, right now I'm reading the whole resource into a byte array and using
> [my] cached copy
> for processing.
Seems to be a bug in the classloader implementation. When the resource
inputstream is closed, and you get another one, you should get a fresh new
working stream...
Pier
