On 02/10/2014 15:24, Johan Compagner wrote:
> thx mark,
>
> that seems to work, at least i do get further but i bomb into the next issue
> that is in this code of StandardRoot
>
> protected void startInternal() throws LifecycleException {
> String docBase = context.getDocBase();
>
> File f = new File(docBase);
> if (!f.isAbsolute()) {
> f = new File(((Host)context.getParent()).getAppBaseFile(),
> f.getName());
> }
>
>
> The problem here is that docBase for us is not absolute, but is a relative,
> (which is why there is a test there)
> The problem is that f.getName() is used there. Because that only gives pack
> the last part of the filename
> So if the name was something like:
>
> "dir1/dir2"
>
> then only "dir2" is returned and of course appbase (which is mostly
> tomcat\webapps) + "dir2" is not an actual dir
>
> For us the doc base is: "../../plugins" so it ends up in "webapps\plugins"
> which is not correct it needs to go 2 dirs up..
>
> So the current code only works for a docbase that is a single name that has
> to be in the appbase folder.
> I think it would be better to just use the docBase string as is instead of
> using f.getName(), but there could be a reason that tomcat needs this ?
Nope. It is a bug. It has been fixed in 8.0.x for 8.0.15 onwards.
Mark
>
> Johan
>
>
> On 1 October 2014 20:44, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On 01/10/2014 16:59, Johan Compagner wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> we have tomcat completely as an OSGI plugin project:
>>>
>>>
>> https://github.com/Servoy/servoy-eclipse-tomcat/tree/master/org.apache.tomcat
>>>
>>> so that we can start it from our eclipse application and also dynamically
>>> add servlets and filters from all kinds of plugins (so everything is osgi
>>> based)
>>>
>>> Our app uses websockets quite heavily so i thought lets update now to
>> the
>>> latest 8 that has a lot of improvements in this area.
>>>
>>> Problem is that in StandardRoot
>>>
>>>
>> https://apache.googlesource.com/tomcat/+/defeda9492a54194ea56e4a8220069608a7aa8f0/java/org/apache/catalina/webresources/StandardRoot.java
>>>
>>> there is a line:
>>>
>>> TomcatURLStreamHandlerFactory.register();
>>>
>>> in the internalInit
>>>
>>> this tries to call URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(this);
>>> in the constructor of that TomcatURLStreamHandlerFactory class
>>>
>>> but this is in eclipse or i guess in an osgi environment not really
>> possible
>>> because that is already set so now it bombs out with "factory al ready
>> set"
>>> error
>>>
>>> Is there any workaround for this or is there any way to improve tomcat 8
>> so
>>> that it places nicer inside an osgi container like eclipse?
>>
>> You need to call the static disable() method before you start Tomcat.
>> That will stop Tomcat trying to register the factory.
>>
>> If you want to be able to use WAR URLs (necessary to support web
>> applications that are packaged as WARs and *not* unpacked) then you'll
>> need to register the WarURLStreamHandler with whatever factory you have
>> configured.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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